Pinta is a cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program.
After a year of development, the release of Pinta 2.1 was announced, an open source raster graphics editor, an attempt to rewrite the Paint.NET program using GTK. The editor provides a basic set of options for drawing and processing images, focusing on novice users.
The interface is simplified as much as possible, the editor supports unlimited back buffering, allows working with multiple layers, and is equipped with a set of tools for applying various effects and adjusting images.
Main novelties of Pinta 2.1
In this Introducing new version of Pinta 2.1 we can find the icons have been replaced with symbolic SVG images, best suited for use with dark themes and high-pixel displays.
Besides that, We can also find that the transparency mode has been added to the gradient tool, as well as improved handling of selection movers and shape control points when using enlarged or small images.
In environments based on the Wayland protocol, the screenshot creation functionality has been moved to the XDG screenshot portal.
It also stands out in Pinta 2.1 that canvas rendering performance has been improved, In addition to adding support for uploading files from virtual file systems like Google Drive media, image or palette files that have an unknown extension but have valid content can now be uploaded.
File dialog now also uses MIME types on Linux and macOS, allowing valid image files with unknown extensions to be included in the image file filter.
Updated app icon, added support for WebP images and for Linux users, webp-pixbuf-loader is now a suggested dependency to enable WebP support in Pinta
webp-pixbuf-loader is now included with the macOS package for WebP support. This is not yet included with other packages, such as Snap, Flatpak, and the Windows Installer.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- The program has been changed to use the .NET 7 framework (assembly support has been retained with .NET 6).
- On Linux and macOS platforms, MIME type checking is provided in the file open dialog, allowing you to display image files with unknown extensions in the list.
- Compiling against .NET 6 (LTS) is still supported. When building from the tarball, .NET 6 will be used if .NET 7 is not available
- Paint now uses the standard GTK about dialog
- Fixed a bug where the default linear gradient was reflecting instead of clipping.
- The gradient tool now updates correctly when drawing transparent colors.
- Previously, old results were visible under the transparent color
- The history panel is now more readable when using a dark theme
- Fixed an issue where the Cairo surface for live effect previews was not always removed
- Fixed bugs that could occur if a selection existed but had zero area (for example, after inverting a full selection)
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How to install Pinta in Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in installing this application on their system, they can do so by adding one of the following repositories.
The first repository we can add It is the one of stable releases, with which we can already have access to this new version.
What we must do to add the repository is open a terminal (you can use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + T) and in it you will type the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable sudo apt-get update
Done this now we are going to install the application with:
sudo apt install pinta
And ready. Now the other repository is the one for the daily versions in which they are basically versions that receive minor corrections or updates. We can add this with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-daily sudo apt-get update
And we install the application with:
sudo apt install pinta