Paint.NET 4.3 is now available

Re:Paint.NET 4.3 is now available by Zababa on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:55PM (#28654539)

Pinta is not a port. It uses GTK+ and cairo. Some code comes from Paint.NET but not all of it.

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Re:Paint.NET 4.3 is now available by Macha on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:38PM (#28656772)

Yeah, up until 3.x Paint.NET was released under a MIT license in a source available sense (no outside contributions accepted, just source dumps with releases). The author didn't like when people would relabel paint.net and release it (sometimes for a fee), so he stopped doing that somewhere during 3.x.

Pinta is based on using the engine for one of those with a new Gtk# UI. Though at this stage a lot of that's been rewritten, so it's pretty much just some filters that are used as-is from old Paint.NET.

Even though Paint.NET moves much slower these days, Pinta has moved even slower and the UI rewrite was never as polished as Paint.NET's WPF UI.

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Re:Paint.NET 4.3 is now available by Zababa on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:01PM (#28662483)

Thanks for the clarification!

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