When a page needs to become a picture
Plenty of places take an image and not a document: a slide, a wiki page, a chat message, a marketplace listing, an email that must render without an attachment. Exporting the page as PNG gives you exactly what the page looks like, with nothing left to reflow or substitute.
PNG is the right export for documents specifically because it is lossless. Contracts, invoices, diagrams and slides are mostly sharp dark text on white, which is the pattern JPG compression handles worst. If your pages are photographs, PDF to JPG gives much smaller files with no visible difference.
Common uses
- Embedding a page into a slide deck or a wiki.
- Sharing one page without sending the whole document.
- Previews and thumbnails generated from a document.
- Diagrams and plans that must stay crisp when zoomed.
Exported more images than you need to send? PNG to JPG converts them in the browser without uploading anything. To reassemble pages into a document again, use PNG to PDF.