Simple PNG encoder/decoder for Node.js with no native dependencies.

$ npm install pngjs

var fs = require('fs'),
    PNG = require('pngjs').PNG;

fs.createReadStream('in.png')
    .pipe(new PNG({
        filterType: 4
    }))
    .on('parsed', function() {

        for (var y = 0; y < this.height; y++) {
            for (var x = 0; x < this.width; x++) {
                var idx = (this.width * y + x) << 2;

                // invert color
                this.data[idx] = 255 - this.data[idx];
                this.data[idx+1] = 255 - this.data[idx+1];
                this.data[idx+2] = 255 - this.data[idx+2];

                // and reduce opacity
                this.data[idx+3] = this.data[idx+3] >> 1;
            }
        }

        this.pack().pipe(fs.createWriteStream('out.png'));
    });

For more examples see examples folder.

As input any color type is accepted (grayscale, rgb, palette, grayscale with alpha, rgb with alpha) but 8 bit per sample (channel) is the only supported bit depth. Interlaced mode is not supported.

• gAMA - gamma,
• tRNS - transparency (but only for paletted image)

PNG is readable and writable Stream.

• width - use this with height if you want to create png from scratch
• height - as above
• checkCRC - whether parser should be strict about checksums in source stream (default: true)
• deflateChunkSize - chunk size used for deflating data chunks, this should be power of 2 and must not be less than 256 and more than 32*1024 (default: 32 kB)
• deflateLevel - compression level for delate (default: 9)
• deflateStrategy - compression strategy for delate (default: 3)
• filterType - png filtering method for scanlines (default: -1 => auto, accepts array of numbers 0-4)

function(metadata) { } Image's header has been parsed, metadata contains this information:

• width image size in pixels
• height image size in pixels
• palette image is paletted
• color image is not grayscale
• alpha image contains alpha channel

function(data) { } Input image has been completly parsed, data is complete and ready for modification.

function(error) { }

Parses PNG file data. Alternatively you can stream data to instance of PNG.

Optional callback is once called on error or parsed. The callback gets two arguments (err, data).

Returns this for method chaining.

Starts converting data to PNG file Stream.

Returns this for method chaining.

Helper for image manipulation, copies rectangle of pixels from current image (sx, sy, w, h) to dst image (at dx, dy).

Returns this for method chaining.

Width of image in pixels

Height of image in pixels

Buffer of image pixel data. Every pixel consists 4 bytes: R, G, B, A (opacity).

Gamma of image (0 if not specified)

• fixed reading of destroyed input stream

• added zlib deflateStrategy option, default to Z_RLE (by pdpotter)
• added possibility to use multiple filters (by pdpotter, modified by niegowski)

• Processing data as Streams, not complete Buffers of data

• Input added palette, grayscale, no alpha support
• Better scanline filter selection

• First version

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Kuba Niegowski

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