Software Update: Paint.NET 4.0.7 – Tweakers

version of Paint.NET 4.0.7 has been released. As the name suggests, this program requires the .NET framework to do its job. It started out as a study at Washington State University, replacing it with Windows bundled Paint, but does provide a lot of functionality that we also look at broader commercial packages. Since version 4.0, the program performs much faster, particularly on multicore processors, but does have at least Windows 7 as system requirement. In this update we see include various performance improvements. The complete release notes are as follows:

Paint.NET 4.0.7 is now available

Whew! I originally started work on getting Paint.NET’s title bar area to respect the Windows 10 TH2 “accent color” functionality (All which is NOT easy for a classic (non-universal / desktop) app … how about some documentation, Microsoft ?!). Along the way I found (and rediscovered) many important performance issues that i’ve now fixed. Ook I finally found some fixes for a handful of rare and vexing startup crashes-including one that’s Caused by a silly bug When WPF data binding system initializes (it’s a bug in WPF). Oh, and there’s now a Swedish translation. Various things related to the Shapes tool have been improved as well

Here are all the the new fixes and changes:.

New:
 

Added
 

• Custom Shapes now supports XAML cardinal splines Poly Curve Segment (a new path segment type)

 

Improved:
 

• Various performance improvements

 

• Performance or “commit ting” (finishing) is now up to 10x faster, greatly Improves responsivness-which for quick drawing operations

 

• Shapes tool quality When drawn without antialiasing, with line styles, and at one pixel brush width

 

• Shapes tool rendering performance on CPUs with many cores (8 +)

 

• Installing a “complex” custom shape no longer causes very long hangs at app startup

 

• Image- & gt; Resize is now much faster

 

• the ruler’s performance

 

• Reduced CPU / GPU and battery use When the app is not in the foreground

 

• Reduced CPU and battery use of the UI for the Move and Shapes tools

 

Changed:
 

• .NET Framework 4.6, is now required, and will be installed if Necessary

 

Fixed:
 

• Title bar now uses the Windows 10 accent color

 

• Floating windows were not remembering Their locations on some non-English systems

 

• Image- & gt; Resize would sometimes cause the main window to flicker or lose focus

 

• Image- & gt; Resize would sometimes do nothing Instead of resizing the image to a very large size

 

• Labels on the vertical ruler were misleading Because They were on the wrong side of the tick mark

 

• to Edit & gt; Copy now works if the data copied to the clipboard is larger than 2GB

 

• Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys now work in the main canvas area

 

• Paint.NET will no longer Incorrectly block Windows from restarting

 

• Rotate / Zoom no longer crashes on very large images

 

• Several rare or uncommon crashes