grofaty, Thank you for taking the time to contact me in regard to the problem I encountered with Pinta 1.6. I have a few thoughts I'd like to share with you, and will do so trying to respect your time by being as brief as possible. First off, I got into computers back in the early 1980's, and have over the years worked with systems running CPM, various Apple OS's, and Windows. Some time in the mid to late 1990's I became aware of Linux, and though I really wanted to explore it, I simply didn't have the time. Three weeks ago I decided enough was enough -- it was time to learn Linux by making it my day-to-day OS; I bought a refurbished Dell desktop, downloaded and installed Linux Mint 17.2, and am trying my best not to turn on my Windows machine for anything. I'm telling you this because much of what I do with computers has to do with graphics, so to stay immersed in Linux and not go back to Windows, I need for Pinta to work. At the same time, I am at best a novice newbie when it comes to Linux, which will unfortunately limit my ability to try things you might suggest, or provide you to details about the interaction of the OS and the software. Once I had Mint installed and configured, the first thing I did was use the Synaptic Package Manager to install Pinta -- since I do a lot of pixel level work, I chose Pinta because it's a nice equivalent to the Windows paint program named Paint-dot-Net. I have to tell you, though, that I was surprised that the version of Pinta that was downloaded and installed by the Synaptic Package Manager came with no Curved Line tool; an absolute must for me. As a result, I went to the Pinta home page to find out if there was some documentation on a way to force the program to draw curved lines (apart from circles and ovals); what I found was the announcement of the release of Pinta 1.6, featuring (among other things) the Curved Line tool. I immediately used the Synaptic Package Manager to uninstall Pinta 1.3, then used the Terminal commands (apt-get) detailed on the Pinta website to download and install Pinta 1.6. Pinta 1.6 is perfect for what I need to do, if it can just get past the save issue. The bug that I reported on July 26th was in fact its second occurance for me. The day before (July 25th) I had been working in Pinta for about four hours when it first occured -- when I clicked the button to report the bug I was expecting what often occurs in Windows; specifically, that the bug report would be sent automatically, whereas I was unexpectedly taken to a website that was a series of bug reports. At that point I did not notice the button in the upper corner that I needed to click to enter my bug report, so that initial encounter went unreported -- when the problem came up the second time (July 26th), I studied the website a little more closely, because I wanted to report the bug, which will hopefully lead to a solution so I can continue my use of Linux and not have to go back to Windows (I don't dislike Windows, I just want to learn Linux). Anyway, let me explain to you what I was doing both times when the unhandled exception came up -- hopefully this will give you some clue as to the cause. I was creating a masthead (banner) for a newsletter (the masthead is primarily graphical, and will occupy most of the first page, so it's fairly large) -- to create it, I purchased several pieces of clipart, all of which require editing before I can combine them together to become the new masthead. During the creative process, I delete unneeded portions of each graphic, draw new parts, manually add anti-aliasing to new lines, resize, rotate, and flip images, copy, paste, and rearrange the location of images, and probably do a few other things, such change colors of image parts, and add text. Specifically, what I was doing both days just before the exception errors occurred was using the Rectangle Selection tool and the Lasso Selection tool to remove unwanted parts of the clip art images, Bucket filling in the areas where the removed parts had been, and then using the Pencil or Brush tool at the pixel level to color over the remaining dashed boundary lines of the selection tools. I don't recall in the past that much (if any) of the selection tool boundary lines remaining on screen after Bucket filling the area where the removed parts had been, but it seemed that the longer I worked in Pinta, the more of the boundary lines that remained and had to be colored over manually; nonetheless, I still received no exception error messages until the moment I tried to save my work. I'm sorry this ended up being so long, but if it enables you to solve the problem and allows me to continue using and learning Linux, it was worth it to me. ------ Original Message ------ From: "grofaty"