File type | Portable Network Graphic Format |
Developer | N/A |
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Files with the .PNG extension contain an image bitmap with indexed colors, in a non-lossy compression, with no assigned copyright limitations. They allow for the saving of color in a spectrum wider than that used by GIF files, as well as assigning pixels with specific degrees of transparency or color saturation. They do, however, not support the CMYK spectrum.
PNG images were invented mostly for online use. Unlike GIF files, they do not support animation, although a daughter format of PNG files, the MNG format, does support it. PNG files are utilized by Linux and Mac OS X systems for saving screenshots.
If you cannot open the PNG file on your computer - there may be several reasons. The first and most important reason (the most common) is the lack of a suitable software that supports PNG among those that are installed on your device.
A very simple way to solve this problem is to find and download the appropriate application. The first part of the task has already been done – the software supporting the PNG file can be found in the table. Now just download and install the appropriate application.
The inability to open and operate the PNG file does not necessarily mean that you do not have an appropriate software installed on your computer. There may be other problems that also block our ability to operate the Portable Network Graphic Format file. Below is a list of possible problems.
If you are sure that all of these reasons do not exist in your case (or have already been eliminated), the PNG file should operate with your programs without any problem. If the problem with the PNG file has not been solved, it may be due to the fact that in this case there is also another rare problem with the PNG file. In this case, the only you can do is to ask for assistance of a professional staff.
If you want to associate a file with a new program (e.g. my-file.PNG) you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected PNG file. From the drop-down menu select "Choose default program", then click "Browse" and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK. The second and more difficult to do is associate the PNG file extension to the corresponding software in the Windows Registry.
Many files contain only simple text data. It is possible that while opening unknown files (e.g. PNG) with a simple text editor like Windows Notepad will allow us to see some of the data encoded in the file. This method allows you to preview the contents of many files, but probably not in such a structure as a program dedicated to support them.