JPEG Network Graphics

<h2 id="alternatives">Alternatives</h2>
<p>Due to the lack of wide adoption of both the JNG and MNG format, it has fallen in disuse in favor of other formats that are in active development with similar qualities:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/JPEG_XR/2S78PWt3">JPEG XR</a>: Supporting wide color space and a lossy format with transparency (JNG contender, standardized)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/WebP/W5Gv7mhf">WebP</a>: Supporting a lossy format with transparency and animation (JNG/MNG contender, not yet standardized)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/JPEG_XL/gU0o8Kcr">JPEG XL</a>: Supporting wide color spaces, lossy and lossless encoding, animation and transparency (JPEG/PNG replacement contender)</li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/jng.html">JNG 1.0 specification</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/#jng">Original JNG specification as part of the MNG specification</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/bin/JNG_Plugin-0.8-photoshop7-win32.zip">Photoshop Plugin (for Photoshop7.0 or greater)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk/download.php?file=jng_dt">Amiga Datatype (for AmigaOS 4.0 or greater)</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Official JNG specification, section 1 <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/jng.html" target="_blank">http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/jng.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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JPEG Network Graphics