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PNG
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: October 3, 2002
Index NAME
png - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format
DESCRIPTION
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for thelossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG providesa patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace manycommon uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images aresupported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from1 to 16 bits.
PNG is designed to work well in online viewing applications, such as theWorld Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive displayoption. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking andfast, simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can storegamma and chromaticity data for improved color matching on heterogeneousplatforms.
SEE ALSO
libpng(3),zlib(3),
deflate(5),and
zlib(5)PNG 1.2 specification, July 1999:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png
or ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents
PNG 1.0 specification, October 1996:
RFC 2083
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2083.txt
or (as a W3C Recommendation) at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.html
AUTHORS
This man page: Glenn Randers-Pehrson
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification Version 1.2 (July 8, 1999):Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others (png-listAATTccrc.wustl.edu).
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification Version 1.0 (October 1, 1996):Thomas Boutell and others (png-listAATTccrc.wustl.edu).
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The PNG-1.2 specification is copyright (c) 1999 Glenn Randers-Pehrson.See the specification for conditions of use and distribution.
The PNG-1.0 specification is copyright (c) 1996 Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. See the specification for conditions of use and distribution.
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