Paint.NET - free (The exception is the version for the Microsoft Store [3] ) a raster graphics editor for Windows NT , based on the .NET Framework . The application started as a project developed by a group of students at the University of Washington for Microsoft Windows under the leadership of Microsoft . Paint.NET is written in C # , with some C ++ used during installation and integration with the shell.
| Paint.net | |
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 Screenshot of the Paint.NET v3.5 workspace | |
| Type of | Raster graphics editor |
| Developer | Founded by Rick Brewster [1] dotPDN LLC |
| Written on | and |
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| operating system | Microsoft Windows , Windows NT ( Microsoft .NET ) |
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| Latest version | 4.2 (07/16/2019) |
| License | EULA License |
| Site | getpaint.net |
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License
With the exception of the installation file and text and graphic resources and modifications, Paint.NET is released under a modified version of the MIT license . [4] Initially, it was completely free , but due to violation of other people's licenses, all resource files (such as interface text and icons) were relicensed under the Creative Commons option, which prohibits changes, and the installation program was executed with closed source code. [five]
History
Paint.NET was created as a computer science undergraduate project in the spring of 2004 . Rick Brewster, one of the main developers, said in his blog that version 1.0 was written “in 4 months ... and contained 36,000 lines of code ” [6] . Recent [ clarify ] release, version 3.10 - approximately 140,000 lines of code. The Paint.NET project continued in the summer and fall semester of 2004, resulting in versions 1.1 and 2.0.
Two graduates of the University of Washington , who worked on the project as a student, continue its development and now [ specify ] as a Microsoft employee.
As of May 2006, the program has been downloaded at least 2 million times. [7] , with a frequency of about 180,000 per month [8] .
Migrate to Mono
Although the Paint.NET license is not completely free, Miguel de Icaza partially ported Paint.NET to Mono , an open source implementation of Microsoft.NET. This made it possible to run Paint.NET under Linux . In May 2007, the paint-mono project was launched [9] . In March 2009, a preliminary release of source code version 0.1.63 was published.
Also on February 7, 2010, Jonathan Pobst, a Novell employee, introduced [10] version 0.1 of the Pinta bitmap graphics editor, an analogue of Paint.NET, rewritten using Gtk # . The release of Pinta 1.0 was released on April 28, 2011 .
Notes
- ↑ Paint.NET - Rick Brewster's Blog
- ↑ Paint.NET - Download
- ↑ Buy paint.net - Microsoft Store (ru-RU) (rus.) (Neopr.) ? . Microsoft Store Date of treatment March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Paint.NET - Licensing and FAQ
- ↑ Freeware Authors: Beware of “Backspaceware” . Paint.NET blog (December 4th, 2007). Date of treatment February 6, 2009. Archived February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Paint.NET v1.1 "Beta 2" Download . Archived February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Paint.NET crosses 2 million downloads, and other news . Date of treatment June 16, 2006. Archived February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Interview: A Look Inside Paint.NET . Date of treatment June 16, 2006. Archived June 4, 2012.
- ↑ GitHub - shana / paint-mono: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/paint-mono
- ↑ Introducing Pinta