redhat man page for png

PNG(5)								File Formats Manual							    PNG(5)

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 pro-
       vides 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 dis-
       play 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:

	      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-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 Massachussets Institute of Technology.  See the specification for conditions of use and
       distribution.

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