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This library can read and write PNG files. It is written in pure Ruby for maximum portability. Let me rephrase: it does NOT require RMagick or any other memory leaking image library.

Features

Also, have a look at OilyPNG which is a mixin module that implements some of the ChunkyPNG algorithms in C, which provides a massive speed boost to encoding and decoding.

Usage

require 'chunky_png'

# Creating an image from scratch, save as an interlaced PNG
png = ChunkyPNG::Image.new(16, 16, ChunkyPNG::Color::TRANSPARENT)
png[1,1] = ChunkyPNG::Color.rgba(10, 20, 30, 128)
png[2,1] = ChunkyPNG::Color('black @ 0.5')
png.save('filename.png', :interlace => true)

# Compose images using alpha blending.
avatar = ChunkyPNG::Image.from_file('avatar.png')
badge  = ChunkyPNG::Image.from_file('no_ie_badge.png')
avatar.compose!(badge, 10, 10)
avatar.save('composited.png', :fast_rgba) # Force the fast saving routine.

# Accessing metadata
image = ChunkyPNG::Image.from_file('with_metadata.png')
puts image.metadata['Title']
image.metadata['Author'] = 'Willem van Bergen'
image.save('with_metadata.png') # Overwrite file

# Low level access to PNG chunks
png_stream = ChunkyPNG::Datastream.from_file('filename.png')
png_stream.each_chunk { |chunk| p chunk.type }

Also check out the screencast on the ChunkyPNG homepage by John Davison, which illustrates basic usage of the library on the ChunkyPNG website.

For more information, see the project wiki or the RDOC documentation.

Security warning

ChunkyPNG is vulnerable to decompression bombs, which means that ChunkyPNG is vulnerable to DOS attacks by running out of memory when loading a specifically crafted PNG file. Because of the pure-Ruby nature of the library it is very hard to fix this problem in the library itself.

In order to safely deal with untrusted images, you should make sure to do the image processing using ChunkyPNG in a separate process, e.g. by using fork or a background processing library.

About

The library is written by Willem van Bergen for Floorplanner.com, and released under the MIT license (see LICENSE). Please contact me for questions or remarks.

I generally consider this library to be feature complete. I will gladly accept patches to fix bugs and improve performance, but I will generally be hesitant to accept new features or API endpoints. Before contributing, please read CONTRIBUTING.rdoc that explains this in more detail.

Please check out CHANGELOG.rdoc to see what changed in all versions.

P.S.: The name of this library is intentionally similar to Chunky Bacon and Chunky GIF. Use Google if you want to know why. :-)