{"id":35809,"date":"2021-11-23T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=35809"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:47:26","slug":"gnome-painting-app-pinta-1-7-1-released-with-some-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/gnome-painting-app-pinta-1-7-1-released-with-some-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME Painting App Pinta 1.7.1 Released with Some New Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free and open-source clone of Paint.Net 3.0, Pinta, released version 1.7.1 a few days ago with improvements and bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>The release is the final version based on GTK2, as the GTK3 \/ .NET 6 version is nearly ready!<\/p>\n<p>Pinta 1.7.1 is a small release with minor new features to improve user experience. For image with large resolution (or zoomed in), you may use mouse wheel to scroll up \/ down. Now by <b>holding Shift + mouse wheel<\/b>, the canvas can be scrolled horizontally. <\/p>\n<p>Same to GIMP, user may now <b>press <i>X<\/i> to exchange background and foreground palette colors<\/b> quickly in Pinta since v1.7.1. And, zooming in and out can now be done without pressing the Ctrl key<\/p>\n<p>The release also improved the pop-up dialog when you trying to open an unsupported file format. The file open dialog by default shows only supported images, including <i>ani<\/i>, <i>png<\/i>, <i>bmp<\/i>, <i>jpg<\/i>, <i>gif<\/i>, <i>icns<\/i>, <i>ico<\/i>, <i>jpeg<\/i>, <i>ora<\/i>, <i>pnm<\/i>, <i>qtif<\/i>, <i>svg<\/i>, <i>tga<\/i>, <i>tif<\/i>, <i>tiff<\/i>, <i>xbm<\/i>, <i>xpm<\/i>. If you chose show &#8220;All files&#8221; and selected an unsupported file, it will prompt that file not support and show you all supported file formats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35811\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-unsupported.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35811\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-unsupported.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-unsupported.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-unsupported-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Error when opening unsupported file and display all supported formats<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinta-project.com\/releases\/1-7-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinta 1.7.1<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use arrow keys to move per pixel in Move Selected Pixels and Move Selection tools<\/li>\n<li>Use Shift to constrain to a uniform scale when scaling using Move Selected Pixels tool <\/li>\n<li>Text in &#8216;About&#8217; is selectable to copy version for use to report bugs.<\/li>\n<li>Improve handling of memory allocation failures for large images<\/li>\n<li>And various bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-window.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Pinta 1.7.1 in Ubuntu Linux:<\/h3>\n<h4>Option 1: Install Pinta via Snap:<\/h4>\n<p>The app is easy to install in Ubuntu using the Snap package, by simply searching for and installing from Ubuntu Software (Snap Store):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35813\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35813\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore-600x376.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore-600x376.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore-768x482.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-snapstore.webp 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinta Snap app in Ubuntu Software.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Option 2: Install Pinta via Ubuntu PPA:<\/h4>\n<p><b>NOTE: the PPA package crashes randomly due to outdated Mono library in Ubuntu. It&#8217;s highly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/download\/stable\/#download-lin\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upgrade mono library<\/a> if you want to install Pinta in native deb package.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The app has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~pinta-maintainers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/pinta-stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official Ubuntu ppa<\/a> that contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and Ubuntu 21.10 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. Then run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers\/pinta-stable<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"92\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal-450x74.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, run command to update system cache if you&#8217;re still running Ubuntu 18.04:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, install Pinta via command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install pinta<\/pre>\n<p>Or, upgrade the app if an old version present in your system using <i>Software Updater<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/upgrade-pinta-focal.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/upgrade-pinta-focal-600x384.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/upgrade-pinta-focal-600x384.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/upgrade-pinta-focal-300x192.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/upgrade-pinta-focal.webp 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Pinta is also available to install as Flatpak package. Check in <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flathub<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in it.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Remove Pinta from Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove Pinta installed via PPA package, run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove pinta<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA either via &#8216;<i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i>&#8216; utility under <i>Other Software<\/i> tab, or by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:pinta-maintainers\/pinta-stable<\/pre>\n<p>For Pinta snap package, remove it either via Ubuntu Software or by using command:<\/p>\n<pre>snap remove --purge pinta<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free and open-source clone of Paint.Net 3.0, Pinta, released version 1.7.1 a few days ago with improvements and bug-fixes. The release is the final version based on GTK2, as the GTK3 \/ .NET 6 version is nearly ready! Pinta 1.7.1 is a small release with minor new features to improve user experience. 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