---
title: What is an rPNG?
published: true
description: ReproduciblePNG is an image in a PNG format
id: 4581092
authors:
  - 'Colette Doughty <colette@stenci.la> (https://stenci.la)'
---

rPNG are Reproducible PNG's. In essence **rPNG** is an image in a PNG format that has the source code/text embedded into it => ReproduciblePNG. 
This is Stencila’s approach to bridging the gap between reproducible documents and legacy formats such as Word documents.

![](https://i.imgur.com/WtgdU8e.jpg)

- They are static images and figures that contain the underlying codes that are used to generate them

- Our file converters namely **encoda** create rPNG's during the conversion proocess for non-executable file formats (Google Docs, Word files, PDFs) and this enables collaboration between researches who work in workdflows of various 
techincal levels. So if one researcher prefers working in Jupyter Notebook or RMarkdown and another prefers working in Words and Excel that is ok. 
They can still alter documents in their prefered formats and Stencila will preserve the source code between conversions.

- It enables back-and-forth conversion between executable and non-executable formats


---
title: What is an rPNG?
published: true
description: ReproduciblePNG is an image in a PNG format
id: 4581092
authors:
  - 'Colette Doughty <colette@stenci.la> (https://stenci.la)'
---

rPNG are Reproducible PNG's. In essence **rPNG** is an image in a PNG format that has the source code/text embedded into it => ReproduciblePNG.
This is Stencila’s approach to bridging the gap between reproducible documents and legacy formats such as Word documents.

![](https://i.imgur.com/kb1u4Eg.png)

- They are static images and figures that contain the underlying codes that are used to generate them

- Our file converters namely **encoda** create rPNG's during the conversion proocess for non-executable file formats (Google Docs, Word files, PDFs) and this enables collaboration between researches who work in workdflows of various
techincal levels. So if one researcher prefers working in Jupyter Notebook or RMarkdown and another prefers working in Words and Excel that is ok.
They can still alter documents in their prefered formats and Stencila will preserve the source code between conversions.

- It enables back-and-forth conversion between executable and non-executable formats


Use higher quality illustration image
docs(RPNG): Use higher quality illustration image