- Extension
- .phc
- .mng
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Embroidery
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Pfaff
- MNG was developed by Tom Boutell.
- Description
- The PHC (Home Embroidery Format) is a proprietary file format used for storing embroidery designs. It is used by many different types of home embroidery machines, including Brother and Janome. The format stores information about the design, such as stitch type, thread color and the coordinates of the stitches. It can also contain text and images.
- An extension of the .PNG image format that uses indexed colors and supports image animations; similar to an animated .GIF file, but uses higher compression and features full alpha support (multi-level transparency).
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- video/x-mng
