png-definitive-guide

PNG: The Definitive Guide

Description

A free book about the PNG image format.

This book was published by O'Reilly and it has three parts:

- Part I, Using PNG, consists of six chapters and covers the main categories

of PNG-supporting applications: image editors, viewers, converters, web

browsers and servers, and 3D apps.

- Part II, The Design of PNG, also consists of six chapters and looks in

more detail at PNG as a file format. It covers not only PNG's fundamental

chunk structure and compression technology but also its history, its

animated cousin MNG, and some of the intricacies of cross-platform gamma

and color correction.

- Part III, Programming with PNG, steps the reader through the design of

three functional demo programs based on the free libpng C library: rpng,

a very simple PNG viewer; rpng2, a progressive PNG viewer such as might be

found in a web browser; and wpng, a basic program to convert RGB image

data from binary PBMPLUS / NetPBM format into PNG format. The final chapter

in this section lists a number of other PNG-supporting programming toolkits

for various languages, including C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, tcl/tk, and

Visual Basic.

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