Pinta versions

Pinta is an open source image editor designed for Mac.
2.1
Mar 21, 2024
2.0
Jan 1, 2022
1.6
Mar 20, 2015
Editorial review
rating
1.4
Oct 19, 2012
Editorial review
rating
1.3
May 14, 2012
Editorial review
rating
0.7
Mar 6, 2011
Review

What's new

v1.6 [Mar 20, 2015]
- Redesigned shape tools (demo video): The Line tool now supports drawing curves and arrows, Shapes remain editable after being drawn, All shape tools now support drawing dashed lines.
- All selection tools now support the Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersection modes.
- New community add-in repository - add-ins can be installed through the Add-in Manager dialog (via the Add-ins menu).
- Redesigned New Image dialog, which includes presets, orientation and background options, and a thumbnail preview of the image.
- The toolbox and color palette now have a flexible layout and can expand horizontally, making them significantly more usable on small screens.
- When launching Pinta from the command line, the standard --version and --help options are now supported.
- Fixed a number of issues with the text tool’s support for Unicode text.
- Fixed a number of issues with undoing selections.
- Fixed a number of untranslatable strings throughout Pinta, and the zoom toolbar’s percentages are now formatted using the current locale.
- The text tool now supports the standard shortcuts for toggling bold (Ctrl+B), italic (Ctrl+I), and underline (Ctrl+U), and all of the text can be selected with Ctrl+A.
- Fixed a potential crash after undoing a text action.
- Fixed a crash when holding both the left and right mouse buttons with the Pencil tool.
- Fixed issues with zooming in very far on large images.
- Fixed a potential crash when exiting Pinta.
- Fixed issues with the toolbar’s state (hidden vs. visible) not being preserved after re-opening Pinta.
- Fixed several bugs where undo did not work correctly for the Freeform Shape tool.
- Fixed a bug where resizing a selection allowed the selection to grow beyond the edge of the canvas.
- The selection handles are now larger and easier to click.
- Fixed bugs where using the Recolor tool after the Line/Curve tool resulted in odd behavior.
- The error dialog now includes a link to the bug tracker.
- Improved the error message when opening an unsupported file format.
- Fixed an issue where cancelling the saving of a jpg image made it appear that the image had actually been saved.
- Auto-hiding now works correctly for the history and open images pads.
- Auto Crop now works correctly if there is an active selection.
- The progress dialog is now modal.
- The Backspace and Delete keys are now usable when editing text fields in the toolbar.
- Improved the readability of the text cursor against dark backgrounds.

v1.4 [Oct 19, 2012]
-Magic Wand tool selection modes (Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersect).
-Layer blend modes.
-Reduced memory usage in the Open Images Pad (over 100mb in some cases).
-Significantly reduced memory usage for history (only the difference between the two images is stored)
-Copy/Paste support for the text tool.
-Improved rendering performance.
-The colour picker tool now supports different sampling sizes, and sampling from a single layer or the entire image.
-Improved support for special characters and alternate input methods in the text tool.
-Added a Copy Merged command to copy the flattened image/selection to the clipboard, instead of just the current layer.
-Added a drop shadow to the canvas.
-Improved support for extensions: Extensions can be initialized/uninitialized properly, including removing any tools/effects that were registered.
-Downloads from remote repositories are now enabled.
-New image flattening functionality breaks saving functionality.
-Many effects do not work with Gtk# 2.12.11.
-Clicking text tool can crash OSX. (fixed in Mono 2.11.4)
-New layer with Text object does not put text on this new layer.
-Opening TGA files created by Pinta does not work on Linux.
-Using 'cut' in text object does not delete text.
-Two undo actions required to fully undo after pasting an image.
-Crashes when using copy/paste in Pinta.
-Exception in Text Tool when attempting to select beyond end of string.
-Exception when saving ORA file on Mac.
-Disabling the "Default Tools" extension crashes Pinta.
-Undo using CTRL+Z not working if this is the first action in new image.
-Undo is broken for cropping or resizing the canvas (regression).
-Crash when disposing the ResizeHistoryItem (regression).
-Inverting colors overwrites transparency with white pixels.
-Move pixels tool corrupted by scrolling.
-After pasting from clipboard in a image, pasted selection dissapears.
-Chinese characters can not be typed in Text tool.
-Incorrect behavior of Undo command when editing text.
-Can not change input method in Text tool for non-English language.
-/usr/bin/pinta has wrong path in it for some Linux x86_64 systems.
-Undo using Text object displays letter z in text instead of undoing.
-Can't enter the '<' character using text tool.
-Drawing near the right or bottom edges sometimes causes the border to disappear.
-Broken licence headers in some files.
-Layer opacity isn't blended with transparent background.
-Copy and paste does not work for Text object.
-Diacritics not working in text tool.
-Drag and drop a picture from Desktop to launcher doesn't open the picture.
-Dialog "Could not open file" inconsistent with other Pinta dialogs.
-The todo.txt file includes a broken link.
-Ruler units option not displayed after Pinta restarts.
-The order of tools windows is not optimal.
-Large file/layer names don't fit into window.
-Three small inconsistencies in Help | About window.
-Shortcuts for Auto Level and Black and White adjustments are broken.
-When no image is available some options are not grayed out.
-Escaping window if file type is not recognized.
-Compose key doesn't work on text input.

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