Paint.NET 3.5 Build 3450 Alpha Released

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Changes in 3.5 Build 3450 Alpha:

• Completely rewritten font and text rendering system for the Text tool that no longer uses GDI+ for anything in favor of GDI (font discovery, or text rendering).
• This has the consequence of improved stability (no more crashes with bad fonts), improved startup performance (about 10% on average, although the more fonts you have the better improvement you will see), and no more 'missing' fonts (all fonts should now appear in the font list)
• New feature: Paint.NET will now update its font list when you install/delete fonts. Previous versions required a restart of the application.
• New feature: Utilities -> Folders -> System Fonts. Now if someone asks, "how do I install a font?" just point them to that.
• Temporary missing feature: There is no choice between 'Smooth' and 'Sharp' for the Text tool.
• Known issue: Antialiasing is not enabled at small font sizes. This is just the way that GDI does things, and should be fixed when FreeType support is added (GDI will be used for 'sharp', and Freetype for 'smooth'). (And in fact, this is the same as how v3.36 operates for 'Sharp' text rendering -- small font sizes results in aliased text.)

View: Official Website
Download: Paint.NET 3.5