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TIFF is the format print shops, scanners and long term archives keep asking for, and PNG to TIF hands them what they want without touching the picture. Both formats store every pixel exactly, so this conversion changes the wrapper and nothing else about the image.
Habit, mostly, and a good reason underneath it. TIFF has been the standard in publishing since the eighties and the software print shops run was built around it. The format can also carry things a print workflow cares about, such as layers and colour separations, which PNG was never designed to hold.
Usually larger, sometimes much larger. TIFF is often written with no compression at all, which is part of why it is trusted for archiving, so a picture that PNG had squeezed neatly spreads back out. That is the format doing its job rather than a problem to fix.
The alpha channel carries over, though older print software sometimes ignores it and flattens the image onto white, which is worth checking before a job goes to press. As for the ending, three letters or four, it is the same format either way and renaming is enough if a system insists on the other one.
Nothing thrown away
The picture is stored exactly as it arrived, pixel for pixel.
What print shops ask for
TIFF has been the publishing standard for decades and still is.
Alpha channel carried through
Transparent areas in the PNG remain transparent in the TIF.
PNG to JXL Converter
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JPG to JPE Converter
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JPG to JIF Converter
Rewrite JPG photos as .jif files for the tools and validators that still use that spelling.
Image DPI Converter
Change the DPI stored in a JPG, PNG, TIFF or BMP, keeping either the pixels or the printed size.
Neither loses anything, so the picture is identical. TIFF wins on what the printing world accepts, not on fidelity.
PNG always compresses and TIFF often does not. The extra bytes are empty room rather than extra detail.
You can, but a high resolution one runs to tens of megabytes and many mail servers stop at 25. A ZIP or a file link usually goes through more reliably.
Almost certainly. TIFF is the format most scanning and document management tools were built around in the first place.