2701 Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project's ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.

Paintbrush is not intended to replace Photoshop or other high-end image editors. Instead, it aims to fill the need for a basic, streamlined editor for those times when you just feel the need to doodle.

New in version 1.1:

• Fill tool completely rewritten, resulting in a significant speed gain


• Limited undo stack to 10 undos (reducing chance for memory overflow)


• SUBMITTED: Grid overlay now available


• Zooming image will not cause funny scrolling to occur


• By default, images created by Paintbrush will open in Paintbrush in the Finder


• Bomb tool animation can be immediately completed by pressing ESC


• Preliminary support for Shift key in Selection tool


• Text insertion uses front color, automatically opens font panel


• Color accuracy has been improved (now using calibrated instead of device colors)


• Added button to switch foreground and background colors


• Toolbox shortcut key changed to better represent functionality

Fixed in 1.1:

• REQUESTED: No longer uses wrong size when opening certain JPEGs


• REQUESTED: Second click on either color well hides panel, avoiding confusion


• Pastes in correct bottom-left corner when zoomed


• Changing colors during bomb animation will not change the color being used


• Undo no longer makes duplicates of image clippings when used with Selection tool


• Paste no longer occasionally places image in Toolbox instead of the document window


• Scrollbars in correct location after zoom, opening large images

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Note: this application has not yet been fully tested on OS X 10.5. Full support will be added upon Leopard's release in October. Use at your own risk.

System Support:
PPC/Intel

Paintbrush is, and will remain, completely free, with no nag screens. However, donations are always welcome. Even the smallest donation is greatly appreciated.

For more information, visit:
http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

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