Portable Network Graphics (PNG) decoder (more or less) for Common Lisp.
All critical chunks are implemented. Most ancillary chunks are. It should be able to read back any
file produced by ZPNG. Interlaced files can be read, but without progressive loading.
Usage: read-png-file (file) and read-png-datastream (stream), both return a png-state object and a
boolean to indicate if CRC was successful, which most interesting property is image-data, a two
(grayscale) or three dimensional array containing image data. Other properties are width, height,
bit-depth and colour-type. If file was loaded by read-png-file slot png-file contains pathname used.
Dynamic variable *crc-fail-behaviour* can be set to one of :error, :warn or :no-action (default is :error), and controls what happens on checksum failure. Error signalled is of type png-read:crc-failure, and restart png-read:ignore-crc-failure is established.
For indexed images slot index-data contains an array with indices in pallete (stored in pallete
slot), and image-data contains decoded colors.
The library loads all files from http://www.schaik.com/pngsuite/ , but I did not check whether it
does so correctly.
Note that ancillary chunks are mostly untested. They never modify primary image data array directly,
but provide additional information in slots of png-state object. Of the ancillary chunks specified
in http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/ missing are: cHRM, iCCP and sPLT. gAMA is present,
but using it is responsibility of library user.
Dynamic variable *warn-missing-ancillaries* controls whether library warns on encountering unknown
ancillary chunk.
Ancillary chunks:
tRNS - if present, additional alpha map is stored in slot transparency
gAMA - if present, image gamma is stored in slot gamma
sBIT - if present, the original number of significant bits is stored
in slot significant-bits as a property list
sRGB - if present, rendering intent is storen in slot rendering-intent as a keyword symbol
tEXt - if present, text strings are collected in slot textual-data as an association list of keyword
and string
zTXt - if present, text strings are collected in slot textual-data as an association list of keyword
and string
iTXt - if present, text strings are collected in slot texttual-data as an association list of keyword
and a list of language tag, translated keyword and translated text
bKGD - if present, preferred background is stored in slot preferred-background as an array of color
components (RGB), greyscale datum or palette index
hIST - if present, image histogram is stored in slot image-histogram as an array
pHYS - if present, intended pixel size is stored in slot physical-dimensions as a property list
tIME - if present, last modification time is stored in slot last-modification as an universal time