GNU Paint

Table of contents

• Introduction to Gpaint
• Downloading Gpaint

Introduction to Gpaint

GNU Paint (gpaint) is a simple, easy-to-use paint program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop. Gpaint starts as a port of xpaint and takes advantages of features unique to the GNOME environment. Gpaint is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

Current Features:

• Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for polygons and closed freehand.
• Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.
• Print support using gnome-print (still flaky, will be improved upon next release)
• Modern, easy-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes
• Editing multiple images at the same time without running multiple instances of the image editor
• All image processing features present in xpaint

Screenshot (GNOME 2)

Downloading Gpaint

download current source:

GNOME 1 version: version 0.2.2

GNOME 2 version: version 0.3.2

GPaint uses the GNU Arch Revision Control System. The development source is hosted at

Archive name: atai@gnu.org--gpaint
URL: http://arch.gnu.org/archives/gpaint/atai@gnu.org--gpaint/

branch: atai@gnu.org--gpaint/gpaint--main--1.0

Report bugs to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gpaint

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Updated: September 1, 2007 atai