Bug#218489: ITP: sng -- a markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG in an editable, all-text form.

["Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : sng
  Version         : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
* URL             : http://sng.sourceforge.net
* License         : libpng/zlib
  Description     : a markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG in an editable, all-text form.

"SNG is a specialized markup language for expressing the contents of a
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) in an editable, all-text form. The
project supports the sng compiler, which can translate between SNG and
PNG."
  -- from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sng/

"SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed
specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable
Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing
elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily
generated or modified using only text tools.

SNG is implemented by a compiler/decompiler called sng that losslessly
translates between SNG and PNG."
  -- from http://sng.sourceforge.net

As you might guess from the descriptions quoted above, SNG is a very
useful program--allowing the manipulation of PNGs using text mode
tools. The upstream author provides RPM-based source and binary
packages, but no one has a debian package available either in debian
or anywhere listed at apt-get.org.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux saidin 2.4.22-1-686-smp #5 SMP Sat Oct 4 14:35:05 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C