Pinta - Simple Gtk# Paint Program

Copyright (C) 2010 Jonathan Pobst

Pinta is a GTK clone of Paint.Net 3.0, with support for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License: See license-mit.txt for the MIT License

Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files.

See license-pdn.txt for Paint.Net's original license.

Icons are from:

• Paint.Net 3.0 Used under MIT License

• Silk icon set Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

• Fugue icon set Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

• Pinta contributors, under the same license as the project itself (see Pinta.Resources/icons/pinta-icons.md for the list of such icons)

Building on Windows

First, install the required GTK-related dependencies:

• Install MSYS2
• From the CLANG64 terminal, run pacman -S mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-libadwaita mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-webp-pixbuf-loader.
  • For ARM64 Windows, use the CLANGARM64 terminal and replace clang-x86_64 with clang-aarch64.

Pinta can then be built by opening Pinta.sln in Visual Studio. Ensure that .NET 8 is installed via the Visual Studio installer.

For building on the command line:

• Install the .NET 8 SDK.
• Build:
  • dotnet build
• Run:
  • dotnet run --project Pinta

Building on macOS

• Install .NET 8 and GTK4
  • brew install dotnet-sdk libadwaita adwaita-icon-theme gettext webp-pixbuf-loader
  • For Apple Silicon, set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib in the environment so that Pinta can load the GTK libraries
  • For Intel, you may need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib when using .NET 9 or higher
• Build:
  • dotnet build
• Run:
  • dotnet run --project Pinta

Building on Linux

• Install .NET 8 following the instructions for your Linux distribution.
• Install other dependencies (instructions are for Ubuntu 22.10, but should be similar for other distros):
  • sudo apt install autotools-dev autoconf-archive gettext intltool libadwaita-1-dev
  • Minimum library versions: gtk >= 4.18 and libadwaita >= 1.7
  • Optional dependencies: webp-pixbuf-loader
• Build (option 1, for development and testing):
  • dotnet build
  • dotnet run --project Pinta
• Build (option 2, for installation):
  • ./autogen.sh
    • If building from a tarball, run ./configure instead.
    • Add the --prefix=<install directory> argument to install to a directory other than /usr/local.
  • make install

Getting help / contributing:

• You can get technical help.
• You can report bugs/issues.
• You can make suggestions.
• You can help translate Pinta to your native language.
• You can fork the project on Github.
• You can get help in #pinta on irc.gnome.org.
• For details on notable changes of each release, take a look at the CHANGELOG.
• For details on patching, take a look at patch-guidelines.md in the repo.

Code signing policy

• Free code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.
• Committers and approvers: Pinta Maintainers
• Privacy policy: this program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.