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Libpng - Reference library for the PNG graphics format

A collection of routines to create and manipulate png format graphic images. Designed as a replacement for GIF (and to a lesser extent TIFF) due to functional and patent problems.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Source tarballhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz
Version 1.2.5 (stable) released on 2002-10-02
Licensed under Zlib.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
Online user reference manual available in plain text format from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-manual.txt; online user reference manual available in HTML from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-manual.html
Support contacts

Announce List<png-announce@ccrc.wustl.edu>
Help List<png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu> <majordomo@ccrc.wustl.edu>
Developer List<png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu> <majordomo@ccrc.wustl.edu>
Bug Databasehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5624&atid=105624

Project contacts

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Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Programsrpng, rpng2, wpng, pngminus, PngSuite test images
Source languagesC
Use requirementszlib 1.0.4 (zlib 1.1.4 recommended)

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2000-06-09
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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