XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.text.pdf, rec.photo.digital   
   From: stanleyrobins@nothere.uk   
      
   On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:26:21 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > This is what Pinta.exe has in it.   
   > Smells a bit of dotNET.   
      
   Thanks for checking Pinta out. Since it works on all platforms, maybe they   
   "ported" dotNET to those other platforms (or GTK?) with all those modules?   
      
   The history, as I know it (which I might not know it well), is Paint.NET   
   was meant to beat the shit out of PhotoShop on Windows (using dotNET).   
      
   In my opinion, since Paint.NET is free, and since it has billions of   
   plugins to do the things that people need done, it accomplished that task.   
      
   But Paint.NET only runs on Windows, whereas Pinta runs on everything.   
      
   The guy who tested Paint.NET didn't like it, but if he's comparing to   
   PhotoShop on Windows, you can't compare them given Paint.NET is free.   
      
   And if he's comparing to PaintShopPro, that's not free either (for the   
   later releases), so there's really no direct 1:1 comparison possible.   
      
   Nothing preventing someone from installing all of them, which is what I   
   have done on my system, but that includes a LOT of image editing tools.   
       
      
   dir /b imageeditors   
    artweaver   
    faststone   
    fotor   
    fotosketcher   
    ghostscript   
    gimp   
    imagemagick   
    inkscape   
    irfanview   
    jsware_crop   
    krita   
    morph   
    paint.net   
    paintstar   
    photodemon   
    photopad   
    pinta   
    vicman_last_good_version   
    xnview   
    psp_shareware   
    photome   
    freehandpaint   
      
   If one wants to look at 3D vector editors, there's even more.   
   dir /b 3deditors   
    blender   
    draftsight   
    freecadweb   
    fusion360   
    inkscape   
    sketchup   
    madview   
    onshape   
    sweethome3d   
    amabilis   
    leocad   
    progecad   
      
   Don't even get me started on exif editors, video editors, screenshot   
   editors, etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)