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1 | .TH PNG 5 "December 18, 2008" | |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | png \- Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format | |
4 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
5 | PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the | |
6 | lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides | |
7 | a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many | |
8 | common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are | |
9 | supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from | |
10 | 1 to 16 bits. | |
11 | .br | |
12 | ||
13 | PNG is designed to work well in online viewing applications, such as the | |
14 | World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display | |
15 | option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and | |
16 | fast, simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store | |
17 | gamma and chromaticity data for improved color matching on heterogeneous | |
18 | platforms. | |
19 | ||
20 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
21 | .IR libpng(3) ", " zlib(3) ", " deflate(5) ", and " zlib(5) | |
22 | .LP | |
23 | PNG specification (second edition), November 2003: | |
24 | .IP | |
25 | .br | |
26 | <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/ | |
27 | PNG 1.2 specification, July 1999: | |
28 | .IP | |
29 | .br | |
30 | http://www.libpng.org/pub/png | |
31 | .LP | |
32 | PNG 1.0 specification, October 1996: | |
33 | .IP | |
34 | .br | |
35 | RFC 2083 | |
36 | .IP | |
37 | .br | |
38 | ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org:/in-notes/rfc2083.txt | |
39 | .br | |
40 | or (as a W3C Recommendation) at | |
41 | .br | |
42 | http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.html | |
43 | .SH AUTHORS | |
44 | This man page: Glenn Randers-Pehrson | |
45 | .LP | |
46 | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) | |
47 | Information technology - Computer graphics and image processing - | |
48 | Portable Network Graphics (PNG): Functional specification. | |
49 | ISO/IEC 15948:2003 (E) (November 10, 2003): David Duce and others. | |
50 | .LP | |
51 | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification Version 1.2 (July 8, 1999): | |
52 | Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others (png-list). | |
53 | .LP | |
54 | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification Version 1.0 (October 1, 1996): | |
55 | Thomas Boutell and others (png-list). | |
56 | .LP | |
57 | ||
58 | ||
59 | .SH COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
60 | .LP | |
61 | This man page is Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Glenn Randers-Pehrson. See png.h | |
62 | for conditions of use and distribution. | |
63 | .LP | |
64 | The PNG Specification (Second Edition) is | |
65 | Copyright (c) 2003 W3C. (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. | |
66 | .LP | |
67 | The PNG-1.2 specification is copyright (c) 1999 Glenn Randers-Pehrson. | |
68 | See the specification for conditions of use and distribution. | |
69 | .LP | |
70 | The PNG-1.0 specification is copyright (c) 1996 Massachusetts Institute of | |
71 | Technology. See the specification for conditions of use and distribution. | |
72 | .LP | |
73 | .\" end of man page | |
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