
Weekly Release
January 21, 2020

2 Templates, 1 New Feature, 3 Improvements, 22 Bug Fixes

Time for templates

Templates

Finance report template
Money talks. Well, people talk. And oftentimes
about money.
Our nancial report template will
help your people talk about money. The style is
clean, professional, and gives you ideas on how
to visualize budgets and discuss your nancial
plans.
We've added this template directly to your
workspace. You can nd it in the template picker
when you go to create a new presentation, or via
the template panel in your editor.

Templates

UX research template
99% of people agree that research is super
duper important.*
This template gives you a way to introduce
research ndings, visualize a customer journey,
and run an internal workshop (complete with a
variety of dot colors for all your dot-voting
needs). The style is fresh, modern, and easy to
customize using your brand's presentation
style.
We've added this template directly to your
workspace. You can nd it in the template picker
when you go to create a new presentation, or via
the template panel in your editor.
*citation needed, but it's probably true!

New Feature

Text placeholders for new slides
Quickly get ideas out onto a slide with text
placeholders.
When you add a new slide, you'll see a title
placeholder up top and can start typing away.
Pressing ⌘ + return (CTRL + enter on Windows)
will add a line or normal text directly
below. Typing ⌘ + shift + return (CTRL + shift

- enter on Windows) will create a new slide.
Used in conjunction with our new keyboard
shortcuts, you can create deck outlines faster
than ever.

Improvement

Spelling suggestions
It's happened to all of us: You spend weeks
working on a deck only to notice a typo midpresentation. Ugh.
We're excited to help you eliminate errors with
an upgrade to our spellcheck. When editing a
text block, misspelled words will be underlined
in red. Right click to reveal a list of suggestions
and select the right word. This is only available in
our desktop app for now.
Not using the desktop app yet? Download Pitch
for macOS or Windows.

Improvement

Minimum text size reduced to 8
teeny tiny text!

There are many reasons why someone might
want to use eight-point font in a presentation:
footnotes, ne print, exing on your far-sighted
coworkers...
Whatever your reason, you can now add teenytiny text in Pitch. Though the font size eld
shows 24 as the lowest option, you can manually
enter lower numbers.

Improvement

Performance improvements
We're always looking for opportunities to shave
off a few milliseconds. Pitch should help you feel
faster at every turn. Here are some of our latest
improvements.
• Image loading has been optimized, which should help
image-heavy presentations load faster.
• Switching between template previews in the righthand panel is faster than ever.

IMPROVED
performance

Bug Fixes

🎁 Text in tables will wrap properly while editing.

From now on, long phrases of text will wrap when they reach the natural width
of a table column, instead of extending across columns. As a company lled
with German speakers, we have one thing to say about that: ausgezeichnet!

🏃 Presentations with very large GIFs will load faster.

Due to a bug, presentations with multiple, large GIFs would load extremely
slowly. We've optimized the code to fetch images in order of priority, resulting
in speedier performance.

🔠 Custom fonts will now be available in private folders.

In our excitement to get private folders into your hands, we didn't check to
make sure you could use your custom fonts. Fortunately, this was spotted and
xed right away.

Bug Fixes

🙅 We'll let you know if you click on links to presentations you can't access.

Before, if you tried to open a presentation that you didn't have access to, Pitch
would open your dashboard, but not load the presentation or give you any
helpful information. Now, we'll let you know if the presentation is part of a
workspace you're not a member of, or if another user has made it private.

⏳ Opening a presentation via a link won't result in an in nite spinner.

Occasionally, clicking on a link to access a presentation would result in an
in nite spinner. This was objectively a Not Good Thing, so we xed it. Now, if
you have access to a presentation and click on a link, it should open as
expected.

✂ Slides will no longer appear cut off while in presenter mode.

Our presenter mode will now use the same resizing logic as the slide canvas,
meaning slides should appear in full, no matter the screen dimensions.

Bug Fixes

🗂 Duplicated presentations will stay in the same folder.

When duplicating a presentation, the new version would always go to your
dashboard home. Now, if the original was in a folder, the duplicate will go
there too.

📝 Titles of shared presentations will not appear editable to collaborators.
If you share a presentation from a private folder or with someone from
another workspace, only you can edit the title. However, if a collaborator
hovered over the title, a caret would appear, hinting that the title could be
editable. Now, the cursor will not change.

🖨 PDFs exported while of ine will correctly show all images and gradients.
Exporting a PDF while of ine would break some of the formatting —
preventing images from showing and gradients from displaying correctly.
Now, you can safely export presentations while of ine.

Bug Fixes

🤗 Emoji-only workspace names are now supported.

Good news, emoji a cionados: Pitch now supports emoji-only workspace
names. In fact, any non-alphanumeric characters should work. So whether you
nd this news or ¯\*(ツ)*/¯, we've got your back.

😍

📂 Dragging presentations in Safari won't grab the surrounding text.

Safari users might have noticed that dragging a presentation into a folder
didn't just grab the presentation — it also grabbed text from the surrounding
documents. Now, only the cover slide and title are draggable.

🖲 Clicking on a link in presentation mode won't advance to the next slide.
When viewing a presentation in presenter mode or via a public link, clicking
on a hyperlink would open the link while also advancing to the next slide.
Now, only the link will open.

Bug Fixes

🌆 Image

lters won't appear for image placeholders.

We've tweaked the design tab just a bit. Now, you'll only see a list of image
lters once you've added an image to your slide.

🛑 Clicking invite link to a removed presentation triggers an error message.
Before, users trying to accept an invitation to presentation that had since
been removed would get caught with, as one of our users so eloquently put
it, the spinning wheel of purple anticipation. Now, if this happens, you'll receive
an error message with more information.

🔤 Presentation style names can start with lowercase letters.

Previously, presentation style names that began with lowercase letters would
appear in title case from the editor. Now, you'll see the lowercase name in the
presentation styles overview and in the style builder.

Bug Fixes

🎇 New GIFs will look better and take up less bandwidth.

From now on, animated GIFs will show original images instead of transcoded
GIFs or WEBPs. Note that this only applies to GIFs uploaded after this
release.

⌨ Tabbing through the editor toolbar won't focus twice on each button.

This is straightforward enough. Using the tab key to rotate through buttons
on the editor toolbar will be zippier, as it will only focus on each button once
before moving on.

✏ New blocks added to slides will be selected and editable.

Any time you add a new block — like text or an image — to a slide, it will be in a
selected state so you can edit it. This also applies to our new text
placeholders: If you create a new slide, the text placeholder will be selected
and editable so you can keep typing and typing and typing ...

Bug Fixes

📋 Pasted slides will always show up under the current slide.

Pasting a slide while no slides were selected would result in the new slide
going to the bottom of your deck. From now on, if no slides in the sidebar are
selected, the pasted slide will appear below the slide you're currently
viewing.

👯 Copying text from one block and pasting it will work correctly.

Previously, newly pasted text blocks would have an incorrectly sized bounding
box, as well as a background color automatically applied.

✂ Cutting text won't change the font size of the remaining text.

Now, if you cut text from an existing text block, the remaining text will keep its
current font size. Before, the text immediately below the cut section would
look smaller.

Bug Fixes

✔Keyboard shortcuts for bolding and italicizing text work consistently.

Bolding and italicizing text using your keyboard wasn't always working as
expected. For instance, if the headline text style was already using a bold font
style, you couldn't unbold it. We've adjusted this so that you can bold and
italicize text any way you like.


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