PNG-supporting Applications

Applications with PNG Support

For those of you who simply wish to buy a commercial application or download a zipfile full of executables and start looking at or making pictures, the pages below have pointers to a large number of applications that are known to support PNG in one form or other, or that are going to support PNG in the near future. Some of the programs (particularly those for Unix) are provided as source code and may require libpng and/or zlib (see PNG Source Code and Libraries), but often even these have pre-built binaries for popular systems somewhere nearby.

Also take a look at the W3C's page of PNG testimonials for the official word from companies like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Agfa.

The list of applications currently spans five main sections:

Note that there is a fair amount of overlap between the editors and converters categories; editors that are capable of saving in multiple formats can also be used to convert between image formats. The same is true for some viewers.

In addition, the following pages list some specialized PNG-supporting applications:

Of the apps listed so far, most of them appear to use the free zlib library but independent (non-libpng) implementations of the PNG code, except where otherwise noted. Bugs have been noted where known, but don't take any of this as gospel truth; any major new feature is likely to have at least a few small problems. Life is full of uncertainty.

(Big thanks to everyone who has provided Greg with pointers and corrections to these pages!)

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Last modified 6 July 1998 by newt@pobox.com , you betcha.