Libpng

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libpng is the official PNG reference library. It was once named pnglib. libpng is a platform-independent library that contains the C functions needed to handle PNG images. It was developed by people including Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, and Glenn Randers-Pehrson, and zlib must be installed before using this library.

The first version of this library dates from May 1, 1995.

Released under a permissive free software license, libpng is free software.

Local Download

libpng 1.6.20

Libpng-1.6.20.tar.gz (md5: 53166795d924950988a5513d3e605333)

See also

• zlib
• libjpeg
• Giflib
• PNG Parser Differential - Creating PNG images that look different only on Apple devices
• libvips - Very fast image processing library with low memory usage

Favorite site

• libpng web site