User Guide

GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Figure 13.77: Export PNG File Dialog
The PNG format, a lossless format, supports transparency but doesn’t support animation. So, you only can Flatten image,
i.e merge layers into a single one, according to the mode you have selected for the image.
JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF, JPEG)
Figure 13.78: Export JPG File Dialog
The JPEG format, a compression format with loss, doesn’t support animation nor transparency. The file will be flattened
and transparency will be replaced with the background color of Toolbox.
THE FILE FORMAT SUPPORTS ANIMATION
Multiple-Image Network Graphics (MNG)