PNG to PDF: do transparent images stay transparent?
Yes. With Original quality, a PNG with an alpha channel is embedded as it is and its transparent areas show the page underneath, which is white in most PDF readers.
Smaller file works differently for the two kinds of PNG. A PNG without transparency is saved as a JPG at quality 75, which makes screenshots and photos much lighter. A PNG with transparency stays a PNG so the cut-out edges are kept, and only its long edge is reduced to 2480 pixels. Working with photos instead? Use JPG to PDF, or turn a PDF back into images with PDF to JPG.
















