Why PNG suits a table of records
PNG is lossless, so thin lines and small digits stay sharp however many times the image is shared. That makes it the right image format for a table, where one blurred digit can change a figure. JPG files are smaller, but their compression smudges the edges of small text. If the image only needs to show a few rows in a chat, either works. If someone has to read the numbers, use PNG.
How to convert DBF to PNG
- Upload your .dbf file in the box above.
- Choose PNG as the output.
- Convert and download the images.
The conversion runs on our servers. Our DBF reader decodes the table into a clean spreadsheet, LibreOffice lays it out in pages, and each page becomes an image with the header row repeated at the top.
Text that renders correctly in the image
An image can't be fixed later the way a spreadsheet can, so the text has to be right before it's drawn. We read the code page recorded in the DBF header, check for UTF-8, and detect the code page from the text when the header is blank. Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and accented Latin names then render as real characters, not boxes or question marks. Dates, numbers and logical fields are decoded too, so the image shows readable dates and TRUE or FALSE, not raw DBF codes.
Limits
Images are meant for showing part of a table. Tables with too many rows get a message instead of hundreds of images, and DBF to PDF or DBF to XLSX is the better fit for those. dBASE 7 files and files that aren't real DBF tables also get a message.
Related conversions
For smaller image files, DBF to JPG uses lossy compression. For on-screen browsing without images, DBF to HTML opens in any browser. All DBF outputs are on the DBF converter page, and the PNG converter covers PNG files.