WMF to PNG Converter
Select files for conversion or just drag and drop them to the upload area
How to convert WMF files to PNG online?
Step 1.
Upload WMF-file
Click "Choose File" button to select a wmf file on your computer. WMF file size can be up to 50 Mb.
Step 2.
Convert WMF to PNG
Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Step 3.
Download your PNG
When the conversion process is complete, you can download the PNG file.
Information about WMF and PNG file formats
| Name | WMF | PNG |
| Full name | Windows Metafile | PNG - Portable Network Graphics |
| File extension | .wmf | .png |
| MIME type | application/x-msmetafile, application/wmf, application/x-wmf, image/wmf, image/x-wmf, image/x-win-metafile, zz-application/zz-winassoc-wmf | image/png |
| Developed by | Microsoft | PNG Development Group |
| Type of format | Image File | lossless bitmap image format |
| Description | Developed by Microsoft, the .wmf format is a proprietary graphics file type. WMF was first designed to act as a format that allowed vector graphics to be converted to bitmap images and vice versa. The WMF acted as a bridge file, enabling compatibility between the two formats. As new platform independent image formats such as JPEG were developed the need for bridging files such as WMF was removed. The most well known use of the file type is for the early incarnations of clip art that were bundled with Microsoft Office. | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most used lossless image compression format on the Internet. PNG itself does not support animation at all. MNG is an extension to PNG that does; it was designed by members of the PNG Group. |
| Technical details | A .wmf file may contain both vector graphics and bitmap images to enable portability between two incompatible platforms. The file contains a list of instructions that allows the graphics device to understand how to render the file. It is a 16 bit file. | PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB[A] images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK. |
| File conversion | WMF conversion | PNG conversion |
| Associated programs | Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress | Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, the GIMP, GraphicConverter, Helicon Filter, ImageMagick, Inkscape, IrfanView, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. |
| Wiki | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics |
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