De derde alfarelease van Paint.NET versie 4.0 is verschenen. Zoals de naam al doet vermoeden, heeft dit programma het .Net-framework nodig om zijn werk te kunnen doen. Het is ooit begonnen als een studieopdracht van de Washington State-universiteit, ter vervanging van het met Windows meegeleverde Paint, maar bevat inmiddels een hoop functionaliteit die we ook in uitgebreidere commerciële pakketten terugzien. Versie 4.0 werkt een stuk sneller, zeker op multicore-processors, maar heeft wel minimaal Windows 7 als systeemvereiste. De belangrijkste verbeteringen in deze release kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Changes in Paint.net 4.0 alpha (build 5086)
- Text tool
- Colored fonts are now supported in Windows 8.1 (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji).
- You can now choose between Smooth, Sharp (Modern), and Sharp (Classic) rendering. These correspond to the DirectWrite’s rendering modes of Outline, Natural Symmetric, and GDI Classic.
- OpenType/Adobe fonts are now included in the list of fonts.
- Fixed some layout glitches that caused text to be incorrectly clipped and/or the cursor to appear in the wrong location.
- Selections
- Drawing a rectangle selection with a fixed ratio followed by a Crop operation was often resulting in an extra row or column of partially transparent pixels.
- When using aliased selection clipping while zoomed in, the selection was often rendered in the wrong location and/or at the wrong angle.
- When drawing a rectangle selection, the status bar would always say it had zero area.
- Selection adjustments would sometimes result in half-pixel alignment of the selection outline.
- Deselecting via pressing Enter or Escape was not working consistently.
- Fixed some rendering artifacts when scaling the selection to a small size.
- Fixed some rendering glitches after pasting when a selection was already active.
- You can now use the middle mouse button for panning at any time.
- Panning via spacebar while a selection tool was active didn’t always show the correct mouse cursor.
- UI text now honors the user’s control panel settings for ClearType and antialiasing of text.
- Edit->Copy now includes the PNG format when initializing the clipboard data, which allows applications like Office to paste with full transparency information.
- The Diagnostics page in the Settings dialog now includes a “Copy to Clipboard” button and a “Open crash log folder” link.
- The Eraser tool now uses the alpha value of the current color.
- Double-clicking the “roll ball” in Rotate/Zoom was not resetting all the values to their defaults.
- Fixed some visual artifacts when using the Line or Curve shape along with certain arrow end caps.
- Ctrl+[ was not reducing the brush size by 5.
- Fixed a crash in the Move and Shape tools when adjusting the rotation anchor while using the Classic theme on Windows 7.
- Some of the new toolbar items didn’t have tooltips.
- When hovering the mouse over a taskbar image, the main window was always showing a blank image for the corresponding tab.
- Fixed a bug in the Colors window where it would incorrectly switch to the Primary color when you clicked on the Hue slider.
- Removed the legacy Ctrl+Alt+0 keyboard shortcut for View->Zoom to Actual Size, which was preventing some characters from working in the Text tool.