Image::ExifTool::WritePNG(3pm)

Image::ExifTool::WritePNG3pm

Write png meta information

Usage

These routines are autoloaded by Image::ExifTool::PNG.

Overview

This file contains routines to write PNG metadata.

Notes

Compress::Zlib is required to write compressed text.

Existing text tags are always rewritten in their original form (compressed zTXt, uncompressed tEXt or international iTXt), so pre-existing compressed information can only be modified if Compress::Zlib is available.

Newly created textual information is written in uncompressed tEXt form by default, or as compressed zTXt if the Compress option is used and Compress::Zlib is available (but only if the resulting compressed data is smaller than the original text, which isn't always the case for short text strings).

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

Author

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

From perl-image-exiftool 13.55-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.