bad sector wrote:
> Pinta-1.7bp-154.1.49-noarch.rpm is available for Suse-Leap-15.4
>
> the package info says:
>
> "Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing appliaction designed after
> Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way
> to draw and manipulate images"
>
> So I just installed it... no tests
Hi bad sector,
Thanks for installing the Linux pinta as most people don't pitch in
to be part of the team, or report back - but you and Joel pitched in.
Kudos to you.
Please do let us know how it works out for you.
I installed it after I saw that you did, so I could be part of the team.
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https://i.postimg.cc/bJVmhkRM/paintnet-vs-pinta01.jpg> Missing drag box?
It only had one fatal flaw in my quick test, which is pretty good as it
had a few niceties that weren't in Paint.NET (AFAIK).
Last I had tested pinta for the three things I care most about, it sucked
compared to Paint.NET - but things have improved a _lot_ over the years.
What I care about may be different from what you care about but what I care
about mostly is dead simple super efficient eminently obvious...
a. Texting
b. Curved arrows
c. Drawing boxes
Most programs do them horribly (e.g., Joel knows this with The GIMP but
even the venerable Irfanview does them poorly, as do most image editors).
The definition of poorly is it takes too many steps for something that
should be a single step, and then another minor step to adjust.
That's it. "Draw & adjust"
No drawing the text box first - that's just stupid.
No manual expanding needed of that text box if you go out of bounds.
If you want to move it, you just move it and keep going.
If you want to change the font in the middle of texting, you change it.
And you keep going. It's not an extra step ever. Just draw & adjust.
Same with size and all sorts of other text things (like italics or bold).
You draw and then adjust if necessary. One step. Max two.
That's it. "Draw & adjust". Two steps. Max.
Same thing with curved arrows.
You start click and end click and you adjust to curve around stuff.
If you want to make it dotted, you set that while you're doing it.
If you want to change the end shapes while you're doing it, you do that.
If you want to adjust the curve, you move it around while you're doing it.
If you want to change the width or the color (or whatever), you do that.
That's it. "Draw & adjust". Two steps. Max.
Same with boxes around things, such as empty boxes to highlight stuff.
That's it. "Draw & adjust". Two steps. Max.
If you look at my threads, you'll see millions of examples...
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Looking at my logs, I last installed Pinta in May of 2022, about a year ago
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https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/2.0.2/Pinta.exe>
So I just downloaded the latest version and will run a quick test for
a. Texting
b. Curved arrows
c. Drawing boxes
Here are the latest pointers for Windows users...
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https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/>
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https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/2.1.1/Pinta.exe>
Name: Pinta.exe
Size: 57072926 bytes (54 MiB)
SHA256: CDD43F411F99449ABCF720148B669D270CAFC617B45F192B8136AC4175484E29
It wants to go into C:\Program Files\Pinta
I put it where it belongs at C:\app\editor\pic\pinta
It didn't create a desktop shortcut so I made one and put it in my menus.
c:\menu\editor\pic\pinta.lnk TARGET=C:\app\editor\pic\pinta\Pinta.exe
1. Texting
Pretty good. Only one major flaw (unless I missed how to do it).
You can text without having to draw a box first.
Good news is it will change the text font on the fly mid command.
And the color, size, outline, and all that good texty stuff.
Drat. You can't _move_ the text without extra actions.]
(See image where Paint.NET has a corner drag point.)
2. Curved arrows
Good news for starters, as you can draw a line and then you can add
points to change the curve of the line without having to re-select.
I don't think Paint.NET did that (although Paint.NET curves are
some of the best on the planet, if not the best, IMHO).
And you can change the line color mid command, which is good.
You can change the line style mid command, which is good.
You can change the shape mid command, which is good.
You can change the line width mid command, which is good.
It's actually nicer than Paint.NET in one way because you can add
as many inflection points as you like. It doesn't have the types
of arrow ends that Paint.NET has but it has arrows so that's OK.
But again, there is no drag point that I can find.
This is a serious lack of critical functionality but it may exist
by some other method that isn't obvious yet to me.
3. Drawing boxes
Good news also in that you can draw a box, and then you can
add inflection points to that box, so you can change its
shape at will almost infinitely (presumably) - which
Paint.NET doesn't do (AFAIK).
And you can change the line color mid command, which is good.
You can change the line style mid command, which is good.
You can change the shape mid command, which is good.
You can change the line width mid command, which is good.
Yet again, it has the same fatal flaw of the lack of ability
to drag it to a new location mid command (unless I missed it).
4. It used many of the keyboard combinations that Paint.NET used,
e.g., control+d to deselect, and control+x to cut, and control+z
to return to the previous selection, etc., so that was good.
In summary, in my test, it's as good (and slightly better in
some ways, if not as polished as Paint.NET... but ... but...
But unless it can drag (a) text (b) lines and (c) boxes mid
command, it's lacking a critical component for ease of use.
Maybe you can find that drag box that I didn't see?
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https://i.postimg.cc/bJVmhkRM/paintnet-vs-pinta01.jpg> Missing drag box?
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Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to faithfully test Paint.NET vs Pinta PhotoShop
replacement tools on the Windows platform (for ease of use & functions).