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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

Maintainers
Developers

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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