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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the paint.net? dept.

Microsoft Paint has been marked for death:

The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a "deprecated feature," as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fall, Paint will "not be in active development and might be removed in future releases."

I go hard in the paint.

Also at PCWorld and Smithsonian.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:54PM (2 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:54PM (#544231) Homepage Journal

    GIMP. What else? I'm not paying a thousand bucks for Photoshop, and only idiots pirate software. Running pirated software is begging to be pwned.

    The only problem I've had with GIMP was its pitiful text handling, and I have an excellent solution [mcgrew.info] to that shortcoming.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:13PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:13PM (#544242) Journal

    From the linked page:

    Rather than use fonts installed in the computer’s operating system, it has its own, very limited set of fonts,

    Strange. I see all the installed fonts in Gimp (just checked). Maybe it's a problem only of the Windows version (I'm using Linux), or a problem only of earlier versions (I've got 2.8.10), or a problem with your specific installation.

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    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday July 26 2017, @03:50PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday July 26 2017, @03:50PM (#544690) Homepage Journal

      I'd have to look to see what version I'm running, but using native fonts in Linux and not Windows is logical, especially since many Windows fonts may have trademark, copyright, patent, or other baggage that open source is free of. Strange, though, because both Open Office and Libre Office use Windows fonts.

      Lulu's cover designer has the same "few fonts" problem, but fortunately I don't need their fonts except on the book's spine.

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