PNG
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: July 8, 2002
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NAME
png - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format
DESCRIPTION
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the
lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides
a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many
common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are
supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from
1 to 16 bits.
PNG is designed to work well in online viewing applications, such as the
World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display
option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and
fast, simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store
gamma and chromaticity data for improved color matching on heterogeneous
platforms.
SEE ALSO
libpng(3),zlib(3),deflate(5),andzlib(5)
PNG 1.2 specification, July 1999:
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http://www.libpng.org/pub/png
or ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents
PNG 1.0 specification, October 1996:
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RFC 2083
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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-list@ccrc.wustl.edu).
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification Version 1.0 (October 1, 1996):
Thomas Boutell and others (png-list@ccrc.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 of
Technology. See the specification for conditions of use and distribution.
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