Should I pick PNG or JPG?

PNG for text, tables, diagrams and screenshots, where sharp edges matter. JPG for photographs and long scanned documents, where file size matters more than pixel-exact edges.

Is PNG really lossless here?

Yes. PNG compression is lossless, so the exported image is exactly what the renderer drew. Any softness comes from the DPI you rendered at, not from the format.

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PNG is the right choice when the PDF is mostly text, line art, tables or diagrams. It compresses without throwing anything away, so letters keep hard edges instead of picking up the soft halo JPEG leaves around high-contrast detail.

The trade is size. A text-heavy page as PNG is commonly two to four times the size of the same page as JPG. For a screenshot in a bug report or a diagram going into documentation that is usually worth it; for a fifty-page scanned book it usually is not, and JPG is the better tool.

PNG also carries transparency, though PDF pages are rendered on white here — a page is a page, not a sticker. If you need a transparent asset, PNG is the correct output format but the source has to have transparency to begin with.

How it works

Drop the PDF onto the page
Choose PNG as the output
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Worth knowing. PNG output is larger than JPG for the same page, sometimes substantially. Rendering is capped by device memory rather than by a page count.

Questions

Should I pick PNG or JPG?: PNG for text, tables, diagrams and screenshots, where sharp edges matter. JPG for photographs and long scanned documents, where file size matters more than pixel-exact edges.
Is PNG really lossless here?: Yes. PNG compression is lossless, so the exported image is exactly what the renderer drew. Any softness comes from the DPI you rendered at, not from the format.

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