Pinta selection cropping

Question

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 selection tool, selecting the area I want to crop to then pressing 'Crop to Selection'.

The image crops, but it's not cropped the selection I made. If I make the selection quite small, Pinta throws an exception.

Am I doing this simple task wrong? Or is this a bug?

Seems a bug. Free ;-) advice: use shutter for this task http://shutter-project.org/ — Rmano, Feb 03 '15 at 20:25
I had a similar use-case but went with shotwell as it supports rotating and cropping. — k0pernikus, Nov 04 '19 at 19:03

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 01 '15 at 17:19

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I had the same problem. Upgrading Pinta to a newer version today solved it for me.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pinta

edited Apr 01 '15 at 17:19

karel

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answered Apr 01 '15 at 17:16

Nathan

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Downvote: Which version solves this issue? I have pinta@1.6 and am unable to find the cropping option. – k0pernikus Nov 04 '19 at 19:04
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@k0pernikus It's been a long time since I've been in Linux world, but looking at the Pinta home page, the project looks dead - the latest release looks to have been only a few weeks after my post in 2015. Could be worth looking into an alternative app!
Edit: Just seen your comment above - looks like you found your alternative :)
– blackn1ght Nov 07 '19 at 08:12

Pinta selection cropping

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