pngcheck(1)

pngcheck1

Tests png, jng or mng image files for corruption, and prints size/type info.

Usage

pngcheck [-7cpqstvx] file-containing-PNGs ...

Overview

PNGcheck, version 3.0.3 of 25 April 2021, by Alexander Lehmann, Andreas Dilger and Greg Roelofs.

Test PNG, JNG or MNG image files for corruption, and print size/type info.

Options

-7

print contents of tEXt chunks, escape chars >=128 (for 7-bit terminals)

-c

colorize output (for ANSI terminals)

-p

print contents of PLTE, tRNS, hIST, sPLT and PPLT (can be used with -q)

-q

test quietly (output only errors)

-s

search for PNGs within another file

-t

print contents of tEXt chunks (can be used with -q)

-v

test verbosely (print most chunk data)

-vv

test very verbosely (decode & print line filters)

-w

suppress windowBits test (more-stringent compression check)

-x

search for PNGs within another file and extract them when found

Note

MNG support is more informational than conformance-oriented.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8–9
  5. 10
  6. 11–13

-c since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -vv since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -w since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

-f until Debian 10 (Buster).

From pngcheck 3.0.3-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.