MNG(5)

💖 MNG(5) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for mng, the Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) format. File Formats Manual energy, but make it cute. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

mng — Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) format 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) is literally the animation extension of the popular PNG image-format. and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. no cap. 💅

MNG has advanced animation features which make it super useful as a full replacement for GIF animations. these features allow animations that are impossible with GIF, or that result in much smaller files as GIF. it's giving glow-up. ✨

and because MNG builds on the same structure as PNG, it's robust, extensible and free of patents. it retains the same clever file integrity checks as in PNG. periodt. 👑

MNG also embraces the lossy JPEG image-format in a sub-format named JNG, which allows for alpha-transparency and color-correction on highly compressed (photographic) images. main character energy fr fr. 📸

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• png(5)
• jng(5)
• libmng(3)
• libpng(3)
• zlib(3)
• deflate(5)
• zlib(5)
• jpeg(5)

MNG 1.00, Februari 9, 2001:

http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng

like go read them, iykyk 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This man page: Gerard Juyn

Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) Specification Version 1.00 (Februari 9, 2001): Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others (png-list@ccrc.wustl.edu).

💜 COPYRIGHT NOTICE 💜

The MNG-1.00 specification is copyright (c) 1998-2001 Glenn Randers-Pehrson. See the specification for conditions of use and distribution.

bestie do NOT skip the spec on this one, the conditions are in there and they matter 💀

k that's the whole thing, love u, bye 💖

this page came from the File Formats Manual, dated July 25, 2000 — so like, vintage but still iconic, and yeah it's filed under MNG(5). 🎀✨