{"id":4741,"date":"2015-03-07T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2015-03-07T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:42:36","slug":"upgrade-pinta-1-6-linux-mint-17-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/upgrade-pinta-1-6-linux-mint-17-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to Pinta 1.6 in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinta_icon_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3042\" alt=\"pinta 1.6\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinta_icon_logo.png\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinta_icon_logo.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinta_icon_logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Pinta, free and open-source drawing and editing software, has recently reached the 1.6 release with redesigned shape tools and various fixes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Since Ubuntu repositories still provides Pinta 1.3, the 1.6 release now features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redesigned shape tools (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1XgQsrKqhcM\" target=\"_blank\">demo video<\/a>):\n<ul>\n<li>The Line tool now supports drawing curves and arrows<\/li>\n<li>Shapes remain editable after being drawn<\/li>\n<li>All shape tools now support drawing dashed lines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All selection tools now support the Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersection modes<\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PintaProject\/Pinta-Community-Addins\" target=\"_blank\">community add-in repository<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; add-ins can be installed through the Add-in Manager dialog (via the Add-ins menu)<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned New Image dialog, which includes presets, orientation and background options, and a thumbnail preview of the image.<\/li>\n<li>The toolbox and color palette now have a flexible layout and can expand horizontally, making them significantly more usable on small screens.<\/li>\n<li>When launching Pinta from the command line, the standard\u00a0<code>--version<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0<code>--help<\/code>\u00a0options are now supported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also numerous bugs has been fixed in this release, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/pinta\/+milestone\/1.6\" target=\"_blank\">full list of bug-fixes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u><b>How to Install\/Upgrade to Pinta 1.6:<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17\/17.1 users can easily install or upgrade to Pinta 1.6 from its official PPA repository.<\/p>\n<p>First open up terminal, and then run command to add the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~pinta-maintainers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/pinta-stable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinta PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers\/pinta-stable<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pinta-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pinta-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"pinta-ppa\" width=\"580\" height=\"158\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pinta-ppa.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pinta-ppa-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, upgrade Pinta through <i>Software Updater<\/i> (or <i>Update Manager<\/i>) after checking for updates (or clicking the refresh button).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upgrade-pinta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upgrade-pinta.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade to pinta 1.6\" width=\"580\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upgrade-pinta.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upgrade-pinta-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or install Pinta directly through Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinta, free and open-source drawing and editing software, has recently reached the 1.6 release with redesigned shape tools and various fixes. Since Ubuntu repositories still provides Pinta 1.3, the 1.6 release now features: Redesigned shape tools (demo video): The Line tool now supports drawing curves and arrows Shapes remain editable after being drawn All shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1242,1241],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-draw","tag-pinta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}