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What causes Pinta to crash instantly when I begin image selection?

I make a selection of a part of an image because I want to crop it, and Pinta immediately crashes. I removed Pinta with purge and reinstalled, but the problem persists. The error message is: Pinta.exe assert failure: Error in usr/bin/mono: double…
Alexandru Mircea
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How to edit or move text in Pinta AFTER it has been created?

I am using Pinta 1.7 on Ubuntu 20.10. When I create text and complete it I can no longer edit the text I have created or move it around. If I try to edit it it simply writes the new text on top of the existing text. So how to I edit existing text I…
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Ubuntu 20.04 pinta selected area image resize problem

I have installed pinta in my Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04, the pinta resize option works via Ubuntu 18.04,but can not use its image resize option by selecting the below icon+pressing the Left-Ctrl + left Mouse click on Ubuntu 20.04?! If possible i…
Soheil Paper
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Pinta selection cropping

I've just installed Pinta to basically crop a screenshot (why doesn't Ubuntu come with a simple image editing tool?!) but for the life of me cannot work out how to crop an image to a selection properly. What I'm doing is using the rectangle…
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Pinta can not open file - permission denied

My ubuntu 18.04 is installed in the SSD.I installed pinta from ubuntu software but can not open files from my hard disk, says permission denied. But can open files from SSD where ubuntu is installed(Document, Download... folders). How do i give…
mahfuj asif
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Pinta installs but won't load

Pinta paint program installs from Software Center, but doesn't load from launcher icon, or load from applications folder icon, or Terminal. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on an Intel Atom dual core machine with 2 gigs of RAM and Nvidia Ion graphics, using…
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Rectangle select in Pinta freezes with Ubuntu 18.04

I've always found Pinta far simpler to use to crop the occasional photo under Ubuntu 16.04 but I've just found, now that I'm under Ubuntu 18.04 that I can no longer do a rectangle select as it freezes almost immediately when "pulling" the "dotted…
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How to rotate text in Pinta?

Is there any way to rotate text in Pinta? I need to add some text for a y-axis label. I've been trying for a while to find a way myself, and I couldn't find anything relevant on the Internet either.
Alexandru Mircea
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How can I change the text size in Pinta 1.3?

I was using the text tool in Pinta image editor in Ubuntu 14.04. How do I change the text size in Pinta?
Subhadip Roy
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Pinta Keeps Crashing -

Pinta keeps crashing on 20.04.2 LTS. I have done what is said on this page here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pinta/+bug/1786822. A lot of people say updating the monorepos will fix it, like it says here:…
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The zoom tool does not work in Pinta

The zoom tool does not work in Pinta. Holding Ctrl and scrolling does nothing. The buttons "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" have no effect. Nothing happens when I type in a zoom percentage. Other than that the painting tools seem to work. For me it started…
Stéphane Tréboux
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apt-get update issue with pinta repository

After running sudo apt-get update, I get this issue: Err:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable/ubuntu bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository…
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Why does Pinta crash immediately after opening an image on Ubuntu 20.04?

When opening pinta on the command line the app quickly crashes after opening an image and complains about a call to free() erroring out before doing a full memory dump.
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How do I change the text color in Pinta?

I'm using Pinta in Ubuntu and have added a text box to my image. I then added text, which doesn't show because, I assume, it's white colored. I can highlight the text and see the length is correct, but can't see the actual text. I have tried…
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Pinta not opening

I installed latest version of Pinta on Ubuntu 16.04, installation was successful but now I can't open Pinta at all. When I click on Pinta (on the menu tab), the button just starts blinking but does not open a program. What am I doing wrong?
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