PNG(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is PNG(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it’s literally about Imager::File::PNG — read and write PNG files. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole vibe, fr fr:

  use Imager;

  my $img = Imager->new;
  $img->read(file=>"foo.png")
    or die $img->errstr;

  $img->write(file => "foo.png")
    or die $img->errstr;

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

all the actual tea on Imager’s PNG support lives in Imager::Files — that’s the place to look, no cap. 🫶

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💅 METHODS 💅

Two low level class methods are provided — mostly for Imager::File::APNG to use, but maybe later for other formats that can encapsulate PNG, like ICO. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

• Imager::File::PNG->read($im, $io, %hsh) — reads a PNG image from the supplied Imager::IO object $io into the Imager object $im. Returns a true value on success. ✅
• Imager::File::PNG->write($im, $io, %hsh) — writes a PNG image to the supplied Imager::IO object $io from the Imager object $im. Returns a true value on success. ✅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the icon behind this page is Tony Cook <tonyc@cpan.org> — give him his flowers. 💐✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at Imager and Imager::Files — they’re the main characters here. 🫶💜

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mwah 💋 — this cutie is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, and the manual is PNG(3pm). 🎀