July 6th, 2010:  Pinta 0.4 has been released!    (Release Notes)

Pinta 0.4 - Release Notes

Released July 6th, 2010

Pinta 0.4 kicks off our focus on polish. You won't see the massive amounts of big new features like previous releases, you'll now see a few new smaller features as well as fixes and enhancements for bugs and rough edges.

New Improvements

Docking

As previously covered in a blog post, the most noticeable change is Pinta has picked up the excellent pad docking library used in MonoDevelop.

This allows you to show, hide, move, resize, and undock the various pads into the configuration that fits your work style best.

 [Jonathan Pobst]

Translations

Pinta is now fully translatable, and ships with at least partial support for 18 languages.

If you'd like to translate Pinta, you can easily help through the web-based translation interface hosted on Launchpad.

 [Jonathan Pobst, Obinou Conseil]

Smaller Enhancements

  • Support for many more file formats, like gif, tiff, bmp. [Jonathan Pobst]
  • Support for the OpenRaster format, an open standard that stores layers, and is compatible with other OSS software, like Krita and MyPaint. [Maia Kozheva]
  • Font preview for text tool. [Hanh Pham]
  • Autotools based build system. [Joe Hillenbrand, Maia Kozheva]
  • Better GNOME integration: toolbar respects GNOME size, Open/Save dialogs remember their last location, and will default to Pictures directory. [Maia Kozheva]

Fixed Bugs

  • #581104 - Move Pixel Tool Doesn't work until selecting another tool
  • #582104 - Rounded rectangle brush width +/- change wrong combobox
  • #581382 - Gradient doesn't respect irregular selection
  • #582111 - Selections don't snap to pixel boundaries
  • #587468 - Use a smoother downsize algorithm
  • #587756 - Rectangle tools should snap to pixels
  • #587768 - Unsupported file extensions default to PNG format
  • #587799 - Text tool broken; squares, Cairo toy API
  • #588591 - Saved files do not respect layer opacity
  • #594677 - Cannot roundtrip an OpenRaster image
  • #581107 - Toolbar widgets do not display correctly in Ubuntu Lucid (Ambiance theme)
  • #587639 - Resize does not preserve zoom
  • #587742 - Save works as "save as" when the image was launched as a command line argument
  • #585063 - Respect GNOME toolbar settings
  • #587646 - Can't Zoom with MouseWheel
  • #587744 - Open and save dialogs do not remember directory
  • #587749 - Use XDG pictures directory by default
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Contributors For This Release

The following people directly contributed to this version of Pinta. Without their help, this version of Pinta would look suspiciously like the last version!
Hanh Pham, Joe Hillenbrand, Jon Rimmer, Jonathan Pobst, Maia Kozheva, Obinou Conseil
If I missed your name, it was not intentional! Please let me know and I'll add it!

Contributors To Past Releases

Anirudh Sanjeev, Greg Lowe, Hanh Pham, Joe Hillenbrand, Jonathan Pobst, Juergen Obernolte, Krzysztof Marecki, Marco Rolappe, Olivier Dufour