Paint.NET v3.0

[Kage]

The final build of Paint.NET v3.0 was released on January 26th.

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[XJ.]

Thanks for the update Kage

[Kage]

v3.05 Released: March 29th, 2007
This is a minor update that adds a new effect, improves certain parts of the user interface, and fixes a few minor bugs.

• New: Pencil Sketch effect
• New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.
• Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
• Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
• Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
• Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
• Improved: Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems. This issue is documented and explained here, Rick Brewster's blog : Paint.NET: Many-Core Performance Scaling Analyzed
• Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
• Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
• Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
• Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
• Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
• Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer

[Kage]

v3.07, Beta Released: April 25th, 2007
This update enhances the Line/Curve tool, significantly reduces the download size, and fixes some bugs related to opening and saving files in Windows Vista.

• Note: For the beta, the new features are only in English. The translations will be complete for the final release.
• New: Line/Curve tool has been enhanced to allow drawing arrowheads, and to draw with various dashed- and dotted- styles.
• New: Image tab thumbnails now have an indicator if the respective image has unsaved changes (an orange asterisk is shown).
• Improved: The Save Configuration dialog (choose JPEG quality, etc.) now allows you to maximize it. It also remembers its relative location and size.
• Changed: The help file / documentation is now hosted online. This has reduced the download size by more than 3 MB, and will also allow us to provide translations without ballooning the size of the download (each language would have added between 2 and 4MB).
• Changed: The "image list button" (downward triangle) is also shown when only 1 image is open (it used to only display if 2 or more images were open). This is being done for the sake of consistency.
• Fixed: Some operations would reset the selected layer to the first/lowest layer. This selection is now preserved.
• Fixed: The Image->Rotate commands no longer hang if a selection was active.
• Fixed: Several problems have been fixed within our implementation surrounding the new Vista Open/Save dialogs. This includes: opening an image from an http:// source, opening images from a digital camera that is not mapped to a file system path (such as a drive letter), the Save dialog not always prompting you about overwriting an existing file, and many corner cases that previously caused crashes.

[Kage]

3.10 Beta 2 is available for download.


Paint.NET v3.10 Beta 2, Released August 11th, 2007.
Changes since Beta 1:

• Note: For the beta, the new features are only presented in English. The final release will have complete translations for the other supported languages.
• Changed: Increased max brush size to 500, as per forum members request
• Fixed: Some layout issues with the Save Configuration dialog and the DDS configuration control
• Fixed: In some cases, undoing an action that removed a layer would result in the un-removed layer not showing up until you resized the Layers window ("ghost layers")
• Fixed: Pressing F1 from the main window would launch the online help in two browser tabs
• Fixed: Adding a new layer now adds it above the currently active layer, instead of at the very top of the layer list
• Fixed: Merge Down now activates the merged layer instead of the one above it
• Fixed: Put the 'x' close button back in the Layer Properties window (managed to fix the bug w/o necessitation removal of the 'x')
• Fixed: In Vista, clicking on a URL link from the installer will no longer launch the web browser with inherited, elevated privileges

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