Release Notes 0.6

Released January 11th, 2011

Pinta 0.6 is a continuation of our “polish” phase. This release is primarily bug fixes. If you’ve filed a bug with Pinta, there is a good chance it’s fixed now!

Some notable fixes are the text tool has been completely rewritten to use Pango and several crashes and glitches with history have been fixed.

Fixed Bugs

• 599468 - History messed up with overlapping click+holds
• 670455 - Opening wrong file with Pinta show a Windows error
• 670767 - After adding a new layer, adjusting the transparency will cause a crash.
• 672398 - Typing large text while in zoom mode causes an exception error
• 694245 - Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file: Invalid argument
• 696410 - Pinta crashes when changing the values in oil painting
• 602663 - Temporary drawing layer is displayed above all layers
• 604440 - Move pixels tool corrupts history
• 606245 - “Crop to selection” can enlarge image
• 663676 - PaintBucket region bug
• 670359 - Windows 7 icon problem on taking screenshot
• 670361 - Problem using gradient tool and clone tool
• 670379 - Linear Reflected Gradient is not working
• 670398 - Paste Into New Image and trasparency
• 670411 - Can’t Undo some tool on transparency area
• 671460 - Not enough space between lines of text
• 671495 - When clicked on canvas text is copied from doc1 to doc2 - why?
• 671508 - After erasing some portion of picture and refilling it with bucket eraser border is preserved
• 671528 - Selection exceeding canvas + fill = exception
• 671540 - OpenRaster file that was created with Pinta, can’t be opened with Pinta
• 672232 - Pencil tool precision on zoomed canvas
• 672394 - Text tool won’t work after undone from history panel
• 676099 - Pinta fails to open TIFF files with .tif extension
• 688088 - Text object: after pressing enter cursor move to the first row
• 689224 - When pasting merging should not be done automatically
• 587641 - Selection color on black background
• 592357 - Text tool: rendered on a white background while typing
• 592360 - Text tool: unreliable vertical alignment
• 592534 - Zoom shifts viewport
• 602653 - Tools deselection possible
• 644168 - Rotation in Shotwell is incompatible with some other applications
• 644846 - Pinta does not respect the EXIF orientation flag
• 670370 - Rulers “zeros” position wrong
• 670382 - The dialog box “Choose Primary Color” isn’t in Translations
• 670425 - Wrong zoom on crop to selection
• 670441 - Pinta icon on title bar different from Pinta new icon
• 670492 - X: and Y: strings should be market as untranslatable
• 670774 - Missing “Unsaved image” string in Translations
• 671303 - File Close in incorrect position according to Gnome HIG
• 671306 - Edit menu items in incorrect positions in Edit menu according to GNOME HIG
• 671316 - View menu items in incorrect positions according to GNOME HIG
• 671433 - “Brush width” is not width enough

• 671454 - There are chechboxes missing in View

  Tools Windows

• 671467 - Undo / Redo buttons not in correct order accoring to Gnome HIG
• 671473 - Quit without saving should put more serious icon
• 671500 - Remember last used image type saving
• 671524 - Two layers must be merged before saving
• 683242 - Three dots in Translation missing but incorrectly displayed in menus for Slovenian language
• 689560 - Shortcut Alt+V not working, change it to Ctrl+Alt+V
• 691936 - Some locale folders in Windows are in main Pinta install folder
• 694074 - Change to fit-to-window zoom doesn’t work if current zoom is smaller
• 678296 - Color eraser tool unexistent
• 688084 - Take screenshot value should be remembered

Bug Tracker

Community

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!

Jonathan Pobst, Khairuddin Ni’am, Mathias Fusseneggerg

If I missed your name, it was not intentional! Please let me know and I’ll add it!

And of course thanks to everyone who contributed translations, filed bugs, made packages, and everything else that has made Pinta what it is today!

Contributors To Past Releases

Aaron Bockover, Anirudh Sanjeev, Greg Lowe, Hanh Pham, Joe Hillenbrand, Jon Rimmer, Jonathan Pobst, Juergen Obernolte, Krzysztof Marecki, Maia Kozheva, Marco Rolappe, Obinou Conseil, Olivier Dufour, Richard Cohn