Enkele studenten van Washington State University hebben in samenwerking met Microsoft een verbeterde versie van het met Windows standaard meegeleverd Paint gemaakt. De software heeft de naam Paint.NET gekregen en is, zoals de naam al onthult, ontwikkeld in Microsoft .NET, waardoor het .NET Framework 2.0 op het systeem geďnstalleerd moet zijn voordat Paint.NET gebruikt kan worden. Paint.NET is in staat om afbeeldingen te bewerken. Hierbij kan gebruik worden gemaakt van layers en verschillende tools om effecten toe te passen. Nog geen twee weken na de release van versie 3.07 beta hebben de ontwikkelaars de finalversie van de 3.07-tak klaargezet. De nieuwe versie kan via deze pagina gedownload worden vanaf een van de mirrorservers. Wat er zoal veranderd is in de final kan hieronder gelezen worden:
This update enhances the Line/Curve tool, significantly reduces the download size, and fixes some bugs related to opening and saving files in Windows Vista.[break]
- New: Line/Curve tool has been enhanced to allow drawing arrowheads, and to draw with various dashed- and dotted- styles.
- New: Image tab thumbnails now have an indicator if the respective image has unsaved changes (an orange asterisk is shown).
- Improved: The Save Configuration dialog (choose JPEG quality, etc.) now allows you to maximize it. It also remembers its relative location and size.
- Changed: The help file / documentation is now hosted online. This has reduced the download size by more than 3 MB, and will also allow us to provide translations without ballooning the size of the download (each language would have added between 2 and 4MB).
- Changed: The "image list button" (downward triangle) is also shown when only 1 image is open (it used to only display if 2 or more images were open). This is being done for the sake of consistency.
- Fixed: Some operations would reset the selected layer to the first/lowest layer. This selection is now preserved.
- Fixed: The Image->Rotate commands no longer hangs if a selection was active.
- Fixed: Several problems have been fixed with our implementation surrounding the new Vista Open/Save dialogs. This includes: opening an image from an http:// source, opening images from a digital camera that is not mapped to a file system path (such as a drive letter), the Save dialog not always prompting you about overwriting an existing file, and many corner cases that previously caused crashes.
Ik vind het wel jammer want het programma werkt goed en moet door het .net verhaal toch wel zonder extreem veel problemen naar Linux zijn te porten?
