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jandrese on June 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

Worst case you can open it up in Paint and save as JPEG.

Also, I just checked and Powerpoint has no problem dropping in a webp image. Gimp opens it just fine. You are right that web forums are often well behind the times on this.

reaperducer on June 18, 2025 [–]

Worst case you can open it up in Paint and save as JPEG

If he's using ⌘⇧4 to take a screenshot, he probably isn't going to open it in Microsoft Paint.

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