PNG: Portable Network Graphics
The full form of PNG is Portable Network Graphics. It is a format for storing bitmap (raster) images on the computer. The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format was developed in early 1995. The main reason behind its development was the limitation of only 256 colors in GIF. so it is known as a successor to GIF images. PNG is an image format that employs lossless data compression of raster images. It uses the least compression technique to save images as a GIF file, but without copyright issues. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors, so it is also called a bitmap image. PNG supports palette-based images, grayscale images, and full-color non-palette-based RGB or RGBA images. The PNG file uses the .png/.PNG file extension and is given the MIME image/png media type. The JPG/JPEG format can produce a smaller file than PNG for photographic images since JPEG uses a lossy encoding method. Following is an example of a PNG image with PNG full form.
Other full forms of PNG
| Full Form | Category |
|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | Countries |
| Piped Natural Gas | General |
| Persona Non Grata | Law & Legal |
| Philippine National Games | Sports Events |
| Partidul Noua Generație | Politics |
| Pennsylvania National Guard | Weapons & Forces |
| Santos Dumont Airport | Airport Codes |
| Port Neches-Groves | Universities & Institutions |
| PNG’s Not GIF | General Computing |
| Partido Nacionalista Galego | Politics |
| Pipeline Natural Gas | Chemistry |
| Providence Newspaper Guild | Companies & Firms |
| Pressurised Natural Gas | Energy |
| Pacific Northwest Gigapop | General Computing |
| Private Non Guaranteed | General |
| Patrol Northern Greenland | General |
| Personal Network Graphics | General |
| Penn-American Group, Inc. | NYSE Symbols |
| Professional Numismatist Guild | Guilds |
| Proportional Navigational Guidance | Military |
| Pacific Northern Gas | General |
| Particularly Nasty Graphic | General |
| Piedmont Natural Gas | General |