“PNG: The Definitive Guide” is the first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting this important new and free image format. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is the next-generation graphics file format for the Web. Designed as an open-source format to replace the proprietary GIF format, PNG is better, smaller, more extensible, and free. Already supported by major software like Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office, as well as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, PNG is an elegant and feature-rich image format that has finally achieved broad industry support.
Book Description
PNG: The Definitive Guide addresses the needs of both graphic designers who want to get the most out of the format and programmers who want to add full PNG support to their own applications.
In the “Using PNG” section, Roelofs covers Web browsers and servers, image viewers, image editors, image converters, and 3D applications, with particular attention to the level of PNG support in each. In the “Design of PNG” section, he includes detailed information on compression and filtering, gamma correction and precision color, PNG options and extensions. In the “Programming PNG” section, he steps through three sample programs that implement PNG with the libpng C library.
Table of Contents
- An Introduction to PNG
- Applications: WWW Browsers and Servers
- Applications: Image Viewers
- Applications: Image Editors
- Applications: VRML Browsers and Other 3D Apps
- History of the Portable Network Graphics Format
- PNG Basics
- Compression and Filtering
- Gamma Correction and Precision Color
- PNG Options and Extensions
- Multiple-Image Network Graphics
- Reading PNG Images
- Reading PNG Images Progressively
- Writing PNG Images
- Other Libraries and Concluding Remarks