.PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

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.PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

Hey all,

I've been maintaining a website for someone (just updating schedules and
such). Not great at HTML so was using layered images in the PNG+ (Portable
Network Graphics Plus) format. This actually worked great for several
years, until a recent reformat of my OS

I used to have MSN Premium and decided I no longer had a need for it.
It came with a simple but nice image editing tool called Microsoft Picture
It! Express, which supported PNG+ files. I assumed at the time that PNG+
was a common layered imaging format and that I could use my choice of image
editing programs to change it/access the layers.

Unfortunately, now that I'm not running it, I can't seem to find
anything else (aside from further versions of Picture It! or the Microsoft's
Digital Imaging line of software) that can edit the file. And those pieces
of software have been discontinued. So, is this format no longer supported
by any current software application?? (Push come to shove, I can get the
old software back, but either way things will have to change with the way
this is done as I can't be using a format that nothing supports, and I'm
upgrading to Vista soon and don't want to use outdated software).

This is a very frustrating issue to have, especially since essentially
free software (there was a monthly subscription to use MSN, but that was it)
edited these just fine for me and nothing else will touch them now, with
layering intact. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,
Shaun
 
Re: .PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

Re: .PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

Not realy the correct newgroup for this sort of request but if you are
looking for free graphics tools try looking at these:

The Gimp - http://gimp.org/ Free, Bitmap image manipulation tool. A little
complicated to install but the instructions are plain enough.
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ Free, Vector graphics package.

Happy hunting




"Shaun Gupta" <shaungupta@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:13r7j62mmc4f21b@corp.supernews.com...
> Hey all,
>
> I've been maintaining a website for someone (just updating schedules
> and such). Not great at HTML so was using layered images in the PNG+
> (Portable Network Graphics Plus) format. This actually worked great for
> several years, until a recent reformat of my OS
>
> I used to have MSN Premium and decided I no longer had a need for it.
> It came with a simple but nice image editing tool called Microsoft Picture
> It! Express, which supported PNG+ files. I assumed at the time that PNG+
> was a common layered imaging format and that I could use my choice of
> image editing programs to change it/access the layers.
>
> Unfortunately, now that I'm not running it, I can't seem to find
> anything else (aside from further versions of Picture It! or the
> Microsoft's Digital Imaging line of software) that can edit the file. And
> those pieces of software have been discontinued. So, is this format no
> longer supported by any current software application?? (Push come to
> shove, I can get the old software back, but either way things will have to
> change with the way this is done as I can't be using a format that nothing
> supports, and I'm upgrading to Vista soon and don't want to use outdated
> software).
>
> This is a very frustrating issue to have, especially since essentially
> free software (there was a monthly subscription to use MSN, but that was
> it) edited these just fine for me and nothing else will touch them now,
> with layering intact. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun
>
>
>
>
>
>
 
Re: .PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

Re: .PNG+ (Portable Network Graphics Plus) Files - No Support Anymore?? Help Appreciated!

Thanks for the info - I'll check 'em out, but is there a better newsgroup
for me to post this in?

Essentially I'm looking for help with this file format in XP becuase it
seems to me (to my surprise) only Microsoft applications uses PNG+ (though
some other apps support PNG without the layering).

Thanks again - any other responses certainly appreciated.

"RiggsFolly" <RiggsFolly@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:OhBu2uubIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Not realy the correct newgroup for this sort of request but if you are
> looking for free graphics tools try looking at these:
>
> The Gimp - http://gimp.org/ Free, Bitmap image manipulation tool. A little
> complicated to install but the instructions are plain enough.
> Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ Free, Vector graphics package.
>
> Happy hunting
>
>
>
>
> "Shaun Gupta" <shaungupta@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:13r7j62mmc4f21b@corp.supernews.com...
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I've been maintaining a website for someone (just updating schedules
>> and such). Not great at HTML so was using layered images in the PNG+
>> (Portable Network Graphics Plus) format. This actually worked great for
>> several years, until a recent reformat of my OS
>>
>> I used to have MSN Premium and decided I no longer had a need for it.
>> It came with a simple but nice image editing tool called Microsoft
>> Picture It! Express, which supported PNG+ files. I assumed at the time
>> that PNG+ was a common layered imaging format and that I could use my
>> choice of image editing programs to change it/access the layers.
>>
>> Unfortunately, now that I'm not running it, I can't seem to find
>> anything else (aside from further versions of Picture It! or the
>> Microsoft's Digital Imaging line of software) that can edit the file.
>> And those pieces of software have been discontinued. So, is this format
>> no longer supported by any current software application?? (Push come to
>> shove, I can get the old software back, but either way things will have
>> to change with the way this is done as I can't be using a format that
>> nothing supports, and I'm upgrading to Vista soon and don't want to use
>> outdated software).
>>
>> This is a very frustrating issue to have, especially since essentially
>> free software (there was a monthly subscription to use MSN, but that was
>> it) edited these just fine for me and nothing else will touch them now,
>> with layering intact. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shaun
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
 
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