baloo32

Whilst I appreciate this may stand in the way of technological progress; upgrading machines to Win Vista/7, whilst the longer term option, just isn't viable at this time. I really don't want to stop using Paint.Net, whilst I also use Photoshop and InDesign for mag/ad creation, Paint.Net is just "easier" and is testament to what a really great bit of software it is... I guess the main issue is people who have upgraded to the latest version, unless they have kept the installer for the older version, will have lost the features now only available in later versions. Luckily I have the original 3.36 installer and have rolled it back to that version until I can get around to upgrading my machine to Win7 Regards breaking, what I meant is that any existing PDN files created which have text on them cannot now be edited in the same way; the fonts render quite differently including anti-aliasing, point size, etc. so making changes either isn't possible or requires re-entering all of the text on a page which uses a particular font so they look consistent. I look forward to my Win7 install and using the latest/greatest version of Paint.Net... Cheers

Well I've read the post, and the "solution" seems to be upgrade your operating system to Windows 7 to fix the poor text rendering introduced in this new version. Doesn't sound like a very viable solution, does it? For a program to introduce an update which effectively breaks ALL pdn files which use text created in Paint.Net seems a bit short-sighted; would it not be possible to allow the use of the previous GDI+ renderer in OS's which don't allow the DirectWrite option, regardless of the bugginess or instability of this renderer?