The well known PNG format is APNG it has got many features, it supports for animation and in additional to it has got 24 bit images, and eight bit transparency, the ordinary frames with two additional data chunks is contained in an APNG file, for all APNG data there are certain rules, they are in glance the size of the total APNG is the size of the first frame, an aCLT chunk must appear before any IDAT chunks and fCLT chunk must appear before the IDAT chunks. Before the entire image is read APNG is designed to allow incremental display of
PNG is a file format used especially for images. It is a free file format, meaning that it can be used by everyone in any way he wants it without paying any royalties to anyone. But this is not the main advantage of PNG, I would even call it a minor advantage, as the end-users do not quite feel it.
The PNG format was intended to be a replacement for the older PNG format and, in some ways, to the TIFF format. It's mainly used in two areas: World Wide Web and image-editing.
On the Web, PNG is much better that GIF. It has included
This material is intended to inform the simple users about the features of the PNG format. So, it will pass over some details like for example the freedom from patents, as this has no connection to the end-user, being more of a concern for the developers.
The PNG format was intended to be used like a substitute for the GIF and TIFF formats. So, it was created with two main ways of usage in view:
World Wide Web
Image editing
PNG can be widely used for the web, having several advantages over the GIF format: the possibility of
APNG comes as a modification of the well-known PNG format, but with additional support for animation. It supports 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency, having a much better quality then the classic GIF format.
An APNG file contains ordinary PNG frames, with two additional data chunks: aDAT (animation data chunks) and fCTL(the frame control chunk). Any PNG decoder should be able to decode the first frame of the APNG file as an ordinary PNG image. Any APNG data file must be subjected to certain rules:
The size of the entire APNG