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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?

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    Seems a bug. Free ;-) advice: use shutter for this task shutter-project.org
    – Rmano
    Feb 3, 2015 at 20:25
  • gThumb did the trick for me. Check this answer Mar 29, 2016 at 14:07
  • I had a similar use-case but went with shotwell as it supports rotating and cropping.
    – k0pernikus
    Nov 4, 2019 at 19:03

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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
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    Downvote: Which version solves this issue? I have [email protected] and am unable to find the cropping option.
    – k0pernikus
    Nov 4, 2019 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 7, 2019 at 8:12

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