De vierde bèta 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 changelog voor deze versie ziet er als volgt uit.
Here are the changes and fixes since the last beta:
- The Line/Curve tool is now back, and the Line and Curve shapes have been removed from the Shapes tool
- Improved rendering quality of the Line/Curve tool, especially when antialiasing is disabled
- The rectangle shape now draws using an "inset" brush stroke. This helps prevents blurriness with odd-sized brush widths
- Shapes tool now lets you commit by clicking outside of the bounding box of the current shape. (you can also start drawing a new shape via clicking and dragging, of course)
- Improved rendering quality of brush tools when antialiasing is disabled
- Improved performance of Shapes and Line/Curve tools on most systems (e.g., less than 8 CPU cores)
- Improved rendering quality of Image->Resize when using Nearest Neighbor
- Fixed the Palette chooser in the Colors window, which was going away when you tried to move the mouse to click on one of its items
- Fixed some broken clipping when using Paste and "Expand Canvas"
- Intel-based GPUs now default to having hardware acceleration disabled. You may still force it to be enabled from the Settings dialog.
- When pasting, the PNG format now has a higher priority than CF_DIB, which allows easier access to transparency (alpha) from other applications
- Tools no longer incorrectly commit when clicking on the currently active layer in the Layers window
- The layer's opacity was being ignored while drawing if it was the lowest (index zero) layer
- You can now copy a file from File Explorer and Paste it into Paint.NET (regression from 3.5)
- Fixed the canvas scroll bars occasionally being incorrect after maximizing the main window and then restoring it
- Fixed radio button group tab processing
- Fixed many small miscellaneous crashes
- New language: Czech
I'm summarizing and consolidating the bug list here a little ... there are 52 fixed bugs since the last public beta.
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