libpng
Sign in to savelibpng is the official Portable Network Graphics (PNG) reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It supports almost all of PNG's features, is extensible, and has been widely used and tested for over 28 years. libpng is dependent on zlib for data compression and decompression routines.
Key facts
- Software.name
- libpng
- Software.developer
- Guy Eric Schalnat,Andreas Dilger,Glenn Randers-Pehrson, et al.
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Image library
- Software.license
- libpng License
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Official website
libpng Home Page
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
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- software version identifier
- 1.6.58
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/libpng
- programmed in
- Q15777
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- source code repository URL
- github.com/pnggroup/libpng
- readable file format
- Portable Network Graphics
- writable file format
- Portable Network Graphics
- implementation of
- Portable Network Graphics
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Encyclopedic overview
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libpng is the official Portable Network Graphics (PNG) reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It supports almost all of PNG's features, is extensible, and has been widely used and tested for over 28 years. libpng is dependent on zlib for data compression and decompression routines.
libpng is released under the libpng license, a permissive free software licence, and is free software. It is frequently used in both free and proprietary software, either directly or through the use of a higher level image library.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “libpng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.