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[Released] Krita Portable 2.9.7.6 Dev Test 2

Krita Portable has now been officially released: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/krita-portable

Application: Krita
Category: Graphics & Pictures
Description: Krita is a FREE sketching and painting program. It was created with the following types of art in mind:

  • concept art
  • texture or matte painting
  • illustrations and comics

There are a lot of great features that can help you make art.

Download Krita Portable 2.9.7.6 Development Test 2 [101MB download / 433MB installed]
(MD5: def52e9c189d9586e2bc6c29b2bd9900)

Release Notes:

Development Test 2 (2015-SEP-10):

  • Trialing the app being dual-mode.
  • Updated help.html and Readme.txt defaults
  • Added KDEHOME environment value - allowing PAL:DataDir settings location



Development Test 1 (2015-SEP-09): Initial release

Note - This is currently 32bit only - I may make a combo build later.

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TODO

TODO:

  • Fix help file content, as well as readme content - I'm too tired to keep working, and wanted to get this uploaded before the end of the day.
  • Experiment with Dual-architecture build.
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Nice Work

I did a quick test and did not run into any issues so far, apart from triggering Windows 8.1's SmartScreen filter. Did you use app compactor?
This seems to be a nice addition for the App Directory. It's a very powerful painter and outperforms/complements GIMP in many ways. It's very responsive and has some nice tools.
Thanks for your work on that!
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I tried decompressing with app compactor and that triggered a lot of false positives on my antivirus (avira). Considering the size of the app, it could be a tolerable caveat. On the other hand, size is not a problem these days...

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Thanks

Awesome, glad to hear it.

I would've signed the code, but my free certificate expired, and I haven't yet purchased one to replace it.

From what I saw on the website, it is meant to complement both GIMP and Inkscape.

Yes, I used the appcompactor on it. With regards to the FP's when decompressing - was there any notifications when using the app prior to doing so?

I have now rebuilt using a dual-mode setup, and unfortunately I can't just include the relevant files, there's too many, so I have to include everything. It's going to be a massive app as a result.

In my opinion, this is an acceptable app for dual-mode, as the graphical nature of the app can certainly benefit from the use of 64bit when able to do so.

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The false positives only

The false positives only occured when decompressing, maybe during this process the guard was triggered. There were no alarm durin install or runtime.

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Dev Test 2

I've just uploaded Dev Test 2. See above for details.

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I did a quick test and it

I did a quick test and it installs and runs smoothly. I think it uses the 64bit version since there was no popup like with dev test 1.

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Update?

Krita is now at version 2.9.11.0.

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Krita 3.0

Better yet. Krita 3.0 Just came out.
https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/

On the download page link above, the zip file said it's portable...is it really though?

Thanks for all your hard work.

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Working on Windows Vista/7?

I was updating this to the new 3.0 release and found out it crashes on me in Vista and 7 in my clean VM images. I'm unsure if this is incompatibility with the VirtualBox driver or not. Has anyone tried this on Vista/7 on a real PC? Does it force Windows Basic theme (aka disable Aero)? Can you create a new image, draw on it, and save it without crashing?

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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VM images

I only have access to Win10 natively, but I'll see if I can get access to a Win7 machine to test on.

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Thanks, Tip

Thanks.

Side note: If you'd like to try other versions of Windows, Microsoft makes images for VirtualBox available for testing IE that are licensed for about 3 months from being armed. They're a great way to allow testing on other versions of Windows.

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Use them

That's where I get my VMs from. For everyone else, here's the link: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

It used to include VMs for XP, Vista and Win8, however it appears those are no longer available.

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7/8.1/10

Yeah, it's just 7, 8.1 and 10. XP was dropped a while back. Almost no one uses Vista. Win8 users should be automatically upgraded to 8.1 update 1 (since 8.0 is awful).

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Working on 7 x64

Krita 32-bit is working on my native Windows 7 x64 without crashing.

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Mark as [Released]?

Hello, I'm doing a quick run through the DevTest page and saw this. Seeing as it's released now, could we edit the title to say [Released], and add a link to https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/krita-portable to the opening post, similar to other DevTests that have become official releases?

Thank you.

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Done

This has been done, thanks for catching it. If you find any more, let us know.

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