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Mail changing PNG attachment to JPEG?

I would like to send an iPad screenshot - captured as a PNG image - using the Mail app. But the image attachment is being converted to the JPEG format when sent.


Is there any way to stop that?

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 7.1.1

Posted on May 20, 2014 4:50 AM

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Posted on May 20, 2014 5:00 AM

This doesn't happen for me at all using iOS Mail app sending to both a gmail and other address. Are you sure your RECEIVING email client isn't doing the conversion? Also note that I tried this sending both a full-size image as well as the reduced sized with the same result.

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May 20, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Alfred DeRose

Are you sure your RECEIVING email client isn't doing the conversion?


Thank you for the help.


It wasn't actually the email client at the other end, but rather a third-party photo app on my iPad - Photogene.


I had been sending the screenshot as an email attachment from within Photogene. It seems that this app was converting it to the JPEG format. When I simply chose the image from the Camera Roll - directly in the Mail app - the PNG format was kept.


Thanks again.

Mail changing PNG attachment to JPEG?

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