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PNG: The Definitive Guide

Errata for PNG: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page xvii
The URL for the author's web page for the book has

changed. It now reads:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngbook.html
The new URL is -
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngbook.html

 Anonymous   
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Page Index
There are changes to the index. The new index is available

at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925427/inx.html

 Anonymous   
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Page 37
In the BeOS paragraph: "R4.1" is now "R4.5" (two instances),

and "NetPositive 3.0" is now "NetPositive 2.1"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 85
In the xart paragraph, the URL has changed. Here are the nearest

replacements:


http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen/linux.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/draw/xart19980605.tgz

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 85
In the XPaint paragraph, the URL has changed to:


http://www.image.dk/~torsten/xpaint/

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 89
In the first paragraph after the output listing: the second

clause of the second-to-last sentence should read, "the only
loss of information it intentionally allows is the explicit
removal or replacement of chunks at the user's direction,
though a limitation in current versions of the PNG reference
library also causes the accidental deletion of unknown,
safe-to-copy chunks."

 Anonymous   
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Page 112
In the third paragraph:

3Dfx Voodoo Rush<enbased card

now reads

3Dfx Voodoo Rush-based card"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 152
In the fourth paragraph:

the full zlib and deflate specifications are included
in Appendixes D and E, respectively

now reads

the full zlib and deflate specifications are available from
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib_docs.html

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 157
In the first paragraph: the parenthetical should read, "(This

problem seems to have been fixed in more recent versions, but
even current versions include 160 bytes' worth of text and
background chunks per image.)"

 Anonymous   
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Page 191
In the second and fourth lines of Table 11-5</B>: the valid

ranges now reads, "(positive floating-point)"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 192
In the fourth line of Table 11-7, the subscript "10" is now

"1" (i.e., "X sub 1," not "X sub 10")

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 289
Insert "Chapter 5" heading and new reference


libtiff home page
Welles, Mike, http://www.libtiff.org/.

Sam Leffler's original libtiff repository is still available at

ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/

but he no longer maintains the library.

Anonymous   
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Page 289
Insert "Chapter 6" heading and new reference:

VRML97, ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997
http://www.vrml.org/Specifications/VRML97/

Anonymous   
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Page 290
At the end of the "Chapter 8" section, add to the paragraph

See also the Chapter 5 entry for the libtiff home page.

 Anonymous   
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Page 324
A line should be added to the colophon

The color insert was designed by Alicia Cech.

Anonymous