
| Weekly Release
May 12, 2020

2 New Features · 2 Improvements · 13 Bug Fixes

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NEW FEATURE

Slide assignment
notifications
Always know what's on your plate.
Now, whenever someone assigns you a
slide, you'll receive an immediate email
noti cation. It will feature a preview of
the assigned slide and tell you who
assigned it so you can follow up with
them.

NEW FEATURE

More stickers to choose from
GIFs are great, images can be impressive, but nothing makes a
slide stand out quite like a sticker.
We've added two new batches of stickers for all your
presenting needs:
• Chubby hands: All hands on deck? All hands on your deck!
Whether you want to point something out or add some
levity, this sticker pack's got you covered.
• Pitch badges: Let the world know that you're experiencing
the future of presentations — today! — with our badges. (If
you use these in a public presentation, let us know in our
Slack community so we can help share your work.)

IMPROVEMENT

Improved shared folder name
Private folders in Pitch have been a hit. But the Shared folder,
which we recently added to that section, was a bit of a headscratcher.
We've updated the name to Shared with me to re ect how this
folder actually works. Now presentations will appear in Shared
with me if a workspace member shares a presentation with you
from their private folder.

Learn more in our Help Center →

IMPROVEMENT

Refined existing
templates
Your favorite Pitch templates are now
easier to customize.
This week, we updated our templates to
take advantage of the latest
improvements to presentation styles.
Now, if you make changes to one of the
default presentation styles, or apply your
branded style, the results should look
much nicer.

IMPROVEMENT

Consistent workspace colors
If your workspace owner hasn't added a custom image, your
workspace icon will be the rst letter of your workspace on a
bright-colored background.
This color used to be generated based on the position of a
workspace in a user's switcher, meaning workspace members
might see different colors. Now, it'll be the same for all
members of a workspace.

BUG FIXES

🎨 Presentation style previews are now more accurate.

Your presentation style previews — available under the Design tab in the right-hand panel — offer
an at-a-glance view of the colors and fonts used in a style. We've made some improvements to
give you a better sense of the font and unique colors used in any given style.

🖼 Cover slide previews in unfurled links won't appear cropped.

If you share a link to a public presentation in Slack, we'll unfurl it to reveal the title and cover slide.
For a brief period, the cover slide looked cropped, but now it should be pixel-perfect.

👯 Duplicating presentations from shared spaces now works.

Before, duplicating a presentation from a guest workspace or in your shared folder didn't work.
Now, when you duplicate a presentation, we'll place it in the default private folder of your target
workspace.

🛠 Tweaked tooltip alignment throughout the app.

Tooltips that also display keyboard shortcuts are now correctly centered. Easy enough!

BUG FIXES

💻 Disabled

ipping options for tables. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Don't ip out, but we've removed the ability to ip tables from the right-hand panel.

🥕 Caret will appear in empty table cells. (Safari)

If you were editing a table while working in our web app, you might have noticed that the caret —
i.e., the ashing vertical line — wasn't visible. Without the caret, it's impossible to understand if a
cell is selected and able to be edited. We've xed the issue, so you always know what you're
editing.

👀Always see who's shared a presentation with you.

When someone gives you view-only access to a presentation, the share button will have limited
options. You can see who else has been invited to collaborate and copy a link to the presentation.
We should also show you who originally shared a presentation with you, but due to a bug, the
user's name didn't appear. We've corrected this so you can see who rst shared the presentation
with you.

BUG FIXES

🔔 Sharing noti cations will appear while in focus mode.

Focus mode is an alternative to presenter mode and lets you hide the editor and, well, focus on
your content in Pitch. However, you can still invite others to the presentation you're viewing or
copy a link to the presentation. Now, when use one of our sharing options, we'll show you a
noti cation just like we do when you're in the editor.

🗂Release notes will open in a new tab.

No matter what workspace you're in, you should be able to see what's new in Pitch. Now, when
you click on What's new? in your dashboard, our weekly release notes will open in a new tab for
easy browsing.

🚨 Opening a presentation you don't have access to will show an error.

Before, if you tried to open a link to a presentation that wasn't shared with you, the results would
be a little unclear. You wouldn't see the presentation, but we wouldn't tell you what went wrong.
Now, we'll show an alert so you can try to resolve the issue.

BUG FIXES

🥧 Disabled background colors for pie charts.

We've removed the ability to add a background color to your pie charts. Why? Well honestly,
because it doesn't look good. If you really want to add a background color to your pie chart,
please reach out and let us know.

👽 Improved a few issues with table spacing and resizing.

Firefox users, we've xed an error that was swallowing up precious spaces in tables. Now your
words will have some space to breathe. Additionally, tables should no longer lock their height —
as long as there's space available, you can resize them.

🏃 Exit presentation button in public presentations works as expected.

Before, if you entered presenter mode in a public presentation, the only way to exit was to press
esc. Now, you can also click Exit presentation, which previously existed but didn't do anything.

BLOG POST

Communicating &
collaborating through
change
Our rst remote employee (and budding
social media star) Oskar Zabik offers
practical tips on how team leads and
managers can adapt to remote work. If
you're a Slack user, you'll de nitely want
to check this out.

Read the blog post →


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