What is the difference between .iff and .png?
- Extension
- .iff
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Electronic Arts
- PNG Development Group
- Description
- The IFF (Interchange File Format) is a file format originally developed by Electronic Arts and Commodore-Amiga in the 1980s. It was designed to facilitate the sharing and storage of multimedia data, such as images, audio, and video, between different software applications and systems. The format is chunk-based, allowing it to encapsulate various types of data within a single file by organizing them into self-contained blocks. While it was most prominently used on Amiga computers, the IFF format has influenced the development of subsequent file formats, including the widely used AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) for audio files.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-iff
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .iff on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia