Outlook – way to use an inline PNG image in an Outlook e-mail

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In my work as a developer I sometimes find myself sending details emails with screenshots to illustrate some point or problem. The content of these screenshots is often text. So knowing that PNG is much better at handle compression of images with text, I save my screenshots as PNG and insert them into my email. However whenever I check my sent mail, the images are clearly being sent as a JPG because they look horribly compressed.

I'm using Outlook 2003 as my email program. Is there some setting I can change to make Outlook send inline images as PNGs?

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This isn't very helpful, but as far as I know, as one who sends a number of screen caps, there is no way. Outlook/Exchange always converts it to jpeg, and I haven't found a way yet to change that.

Sorry; I wish it could be done.

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