
| Weekly Release
June 16, 2020

6 Improvements · 8 Bug Fixes · 1 Blog Post

Spring cleaning

IMPROVEMENT

Added Add slide button
The Add slide button has made its triumphant return to the
editor. Pressing this will add a blank slide — as opposed to one
of your template slides — to your presentation.
If you're in a hurry, you can also press N on your keyboard to
add a blank slide.

IMPROVEMENT

Beautified sidebar
We've added some extra polish to make Pitch pop. This includes
a grey background to separate the workspace switcher and
sidebar options and one-pixel borders to make the app look a
bit crisper.

IMPROVEMENTS

👋 Personal workspaces are of cially gone.

With the introduction of private folders and guest workspaces, personal workspaces became
unnecessary. They have now been retired along with any presentations they contained. If you
created an account before April 15 and didn't transfer your presentations before the move, reach
out to [support@pitch.com](mailto:support@pitch.com) and we'll happily help you retrieve them.

✨ Modals and popovers are more consistent.

This week, we took some time to improve the consistency of the footers and buttons used across
modals and popovers in Pitch.

🏃 Pitch is a little bit faster.

In particular, opening a large presentation and switching from focus mode to the editor are
zippier.

📹 Video embeds can be shown in full-screen from the editor.

Full-screen playback for videos worked in presenter mode and focus mode, but was turned off in
the editor. Now you can enter full-screen in any view.

BUG FIXES

💨 Text edits won't get lost.

Rarely, errors would result in text blocks reverting to their previous text. We now handle these
editors more gracefully, so you won't lose any text.

🔤 Custom fonts will display in speaker view.

Before, when entering presenter mode, your audience would see custom fonts just ne, but the
speaker view would show a default font. Now, both will display any custom fonts used in a
presentation.

🔴 Editor will always show the correct color of text in shapes.

Due to a bug, the color of text added to a shape stopped matching the color displayed by the color
picker. Now they should always be aligned.

🙅 User avatars won't

icker.

You may have noticed some extra excitement in the editor last week, as user avatars ickered
across the toolbar and slides. We've xed the underlying issues and have effectively put a stop to
this impromptu dance party.

BUG FIXES

🎛 All fonts can be bolded via the inline editor.

Before, fonts without a bold style could be bolded via the right-hand panel, but not via the inline
editor or keyboard shortcuts. Now, you can always add a faux bold when a true option isn't
available.

📔 Public presentations will display their title.

Public presentation titles mysteriously went missing. They're back again — you'll see titles in the
browser tab and appropriately named title bar.

🎨 Dragging and dropping template slides won't override a modi ed style.

Before, modi ed presentation styles would be reset when dragging in a template slide that used
the original style. Now, you can drag in slides from the original template without it affecting
modi ed styles.

📂 Folders won't jump when renamed.

Renaming a folder would cause the label and icon to jump to the left. Now both will stay perfectly
put.

BLOG POST

Why you should build
features users don't ask
for
Often, people aren’t aware of what they
need, or even what they want. Learn how
we approach user research and turn raw
insights into features users didn't even
know they wanted.

Read the blog post →


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