This procedure reads the comment blocks from a PNG file. This functionality is also present in the tcllib png module.
proc read_png_comments file { set fh [open $file r] fconfigure $fh -encoding binary -translation binary -eofchar {} if {[read $fh 8] ne "\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n"} { close $fh return } set text {} while {[set r [read $fh 8]] ne {}} { binary scan $r Ia4 len type set r [read $fh $len] if {[eof $fh]} {close $fh; return} if {$type eq {tEXt}} { lappend text [split $r \x00] } elseif {$type eq {iTXt}} { set keyword [lindex [split $r \x00] 0] set r [string range $r [expr {[string length $keyword] + 1}] end] binary scan $r cc comp method if {$comp == 0} { lappend text [linsert [ split [string range $r 2 end] \x00] 0 $keyword] } } seek $fh 4 current } close $fh return $text }
AF 2003-12-18:
Currently only supports uncompressed comments. Does not attempt to verify checksum. Todo: add inflate support.
Returns a list where each element is a comment.
Each comment is itself a list.
a plain text comment consists of 2 elements: the human readable keyword, and the text data.
a Unicode (international) comment is 4 elements: the human readable keyword, the language identifier, the translated keyword, and the unicode text data.