Moving rectangle selection against a white background results in dotted lines

[Joao Luiz Azevedo de Carvalho]

Suppose you are editing an image containing objects against a white background (for example, a print screen of a PDF document). If you rectangle-select a section of the image, and then move that selection, dotted gray lines appear around the new location of the moved section of the image.

This bug was observed on version 1.7. I installed it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using the ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable repository.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Confirmed. For me it doesn't seem to occur the first time (in a new session of Pinta) but then can be reproduced after that.

[Joao Luiz Azevedo de Carvalho (joaoluizc)]

I also noticed that if you rectangle-select a section of the image, and then cut and paste that selection as a new image, a light gray border appears around the new image.

Again, I noticed this when editing an image containing objects against a white background (a print screen of a PDF document).

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

I can't reproduce this anymore in the latest development build - after some digging I think this was solved with the fix for bug 1904304