PNG... are they good for Affinity Publisher?

[Steverinos]

I viewed an Affinity tutorial on youtube that used PNG files. I read that PNG files are very high quality. What say y'all?

[loukash]

39 minutes ago, Steverinos said:

What say y'all?

As always: It depends…

[John Rostron]

The png format has five variants, of which png-24 will give you a colour depth as good as a 8-bit tiff or jpg (8 bits per channel). It has the advantage over jpg in that it is lossless.  However:

It does not support layers.

It does not support exif data, but some embedding of metadata is possible.

John

[loukash]

In other words:

Much like a baker should learn to know and understand the different types of flour which they need to bake different types of bread, a designer should learn to know and understand the different file formats they will be using for their designs.
And much like there is no "best" or "worst" flour, there is no "best" or "worst" file format either. (Although, in both cases, some can be avoided altogether, haha…)

37 minutes ago, loukash said:

As always: It depends…

… what you want to achieve as a final result.

(Disclosure: I do design for a living, and since eight years I'm baking my own bread as a hobby… )

[IanSG]

PNG gives you the option of using transparency but it doesn't guarantee high quality.

[Pšenda]

PNG has transparency, and is lossless. But still is bitmap (rasterize image). For text (APublisher) is better vector/text format - PDF. 

[Catshill]

The statement doesn’t make without a context. Rubbish in = Rubbish out.