Paint.NET 3.5.2 released, reduces CPU utilization

Here comes first release of Paint.NET for the year 2010. Yes, Paint.NET v3.5.2 has been released. This is the second update for the Paint.NET 3.5 version. The latest update brings improved performance and CPU utilization, resolves the Text tools disparities, corrects the image resize functionality and other related features.

Paint.NET 3.5.2 features

The changes and fixes Paint.NET 3.5.2 brings, since the launch of Paint.NET 3.5.1 include:

• All font face variants (e.g., Arial vs. Arial Narrow) are now available with the Text tool in Win7/Vista with DirectWrite.
• Bitmap font types (e.g. Courier, Terminal, Fixedsys) are now available with the Text tool in Win7/Vista.
• Fixed some bad text kerning with the Text tool at small font sizes when antialiasing was turned off.
• For the Image->Resize function, the quality, correctness, and performance of Bilinear and Bicubic sampling modes have been improved. Super Sampling also has some performance improvement.
• Improved the rendering quality for the Hue/Saturation adjustment. Also made a new icon for it.
• Fixed many subtle rendering issues with the Move Selected Pixels tool. These were apparent when flipping or rotating a selected area.
• Fixed: The Line/Curve tool was applying pixel snapping to the curve nodes, which caused lines to “bend” when using the Shift key to constrain the angle.
• Fixed some extraneous CPU usage related to unnecessary or redundant thumbnail updates.
• Fixed a few dialogs that looked wrong with Aero glass with Remote Desktop or Virtual PC.
• Fixed a nasty memory leak with Flatten followed by Undo.
• Fixed some issues related to effects that took awhile to cancel. As it turns out, drag-and-drop was enabled at this time, which easily lead to crashes or hangs.
• Some Win7 systems could not detect that .NET 3.5 SP1 was installed, even though it was. A fallback detection function has been added.
• For plugin authors, the Effect class now has a pollable IsCancelRequested property. This can be used to improve responsiveness for expensive OnSetRenderInfo() implementations which are otherwise non-interruptible.
• For plugin authors, the Surface.FitSurface() method is now optimized to use multiple threads, which improves performance.

How to upgrade/install Paint.NET 3.5.2

There are two ways through which you can get your hand on the latest release of Paint.NET 3.5.2. The two options are listed below:

• Use the built-in updater.
• Download it directly from the website.

If interested you can check out the following links

Paint.NET 3.5.1 released, download it here

Paint.NET v3.5 gets an enhancement – to use DirectWrite

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