Check and ProductivityPlus - release notes

August 2020

Bugfixes 

Distribute horizontally and vertically is not working as expected - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

We introduced a minor malfunction to Distribute in ProductivityPlus. When clicked more than one time, right/bottom the snapping points workspace/slide were accidentally switched. The problem was reproduced and repaired.

 

Fix Memory Leak - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

We fixed a memory leak in ProductivityPlus and Check and that appeared when opening and closing many presentations in a row.

 

Same size doesn't work on single shape selection - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

With the introduction of Stretch, a defect was introduced to Same-Size in ProductivityPlus when executed on a single shape. The problem was reproduced and fixed.

 

The alignment tools are grayed out on single selection when text selection is the last action - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

Fixed a bug where alignment tools were grayed out but should be available instead.

 

Can not close Master View with keyboard shortcut - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

We fixed a bug and is now possible to open and close the master view using the Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Q shortcut.

 

Moving our color panel to the top should make it flow horizontal - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

ProductivityPlus Color Pane supports horizontal layout when being docked at the top or bottom of the PowerPoint window.

 

Color pane: no fill changes the layout of my text box - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0
Fixed an issue where setting the text box to no outline, and then back to a color could break the layout of the text box. 

 

Agenda: replace Agenda default presentation - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

The agenda default layout has been updated to present more useful information to the user.

 

Check warns about a color scheme mismatch when using "no font" - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0
A false warning appeared about a color scheme mismatch when "no font" was used. 

 

Save and send drop-down icons are identical - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

New icons were added to send presentations and selected slides. Also, all SVGs were optimized for reduced size.

 

Icons are blurry with high resolution displays - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

Improved and sharpened icon rendering especially for large displays and high DPI settings.

 

Moving our panes to the top or bottom should inform the user - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

Moving the tool pane on the top or bottom of PowerPoint warns the user that this pane can be only used vertically.

 

Templafy_SlideProof_Defaults.pptx contains an unnecessary [Comment] - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

A shape with a blue rectangle has been removed from Templafy_SlideProof_Defaults.pptx since it was useless.

 

Color pane shows multiple highlights - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

Fixed a bug where the color pane showed multiple colors selected.

 

No-font is not selected in the color pane when a text box is selected - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0
Fixed a bug where selecting a text box with "no font" color didn't highlight this color in the color pane.

 

"Apply Default Textbox Format" tooltip is wrong - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

The tooltip has been updated to use the correct placeholder name

 

Features

Increase / Decrease Line spacing - 5.0.560.0 / 5.0.561.0

ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for increasing and decreasing line spacing. This allows users to quickly change the line spacing of a single paragraph, multiple paragraphs at once or all paragraphs within one or more shapes. This comes with two new commands which also include shortcuts: Increase Line Spacing (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+/), Decrease Line Spacing (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+')

 

July 2020

Bug fixes

Remove references to "TemplateChanger" - 5.0.519.0

All the references to the Template Changer have been removed from the tool tips since the functionality is not part of Productivity anymore.

 

The placement and size of our panels should be remembered  - 5.0.519.0

ProductivityPlus and Check store the task pane size and position so that when opening PowerPoint, they open the same as they were closed.

 

Pick+Apply format on certain charts freezes PowerPoint - 5.0.519.0

Productivity and Check got a performance improvement when working with charts that contain a lot of data.

 

Check tool doesn't display when think-cell add-in is active - 5.0.503.0

Check did not appear in the ribbon when think-cell was installed. This is now fixed and both work properly together.

 

Link text breaks formatting - 5.0.503.0

When linking text from Excel in PowerPoint using ProductivityPlus, the formatting of the linked text is set to the same as the text around. Additionally, updating a link also keeps any formatting.

 

Clicking shape shows unrelated Excel callout - 5.0.503.0

In certain use-case scenarios when clicking a text inside a PowerPoint shape, a callout was shown telling Excel is busy. This was fixed and limited to scenarios when a user pastes text.

 

SlideProof error message shows stack trace - 5.0.503.0

All the errors will now show only the message that is useful to the user and the technical messages will be only written in log files.

 

Modules: tooltip consistency in the ribbon  - 5.0.503.0

The tooltip texts in the ribbon have been changed to be consistent throughout the whole product following the pattern "Click here to open Templafy [nameOfTheProduct]"

 

'Multiple Placeholder Font Colors' warning on same colors - 5.0.503.0

When running Check colors are now compared only through their ARGB values not taking into consideration anymore if they are normal colors or theme colors.

 

Excel links: change source breaks with "Save a copy" - 5.0.503.0

Fixed problems with changing source of Excel link if the file resides on SharePoint. The file chooser will now always open.

 

Color pane doesn't work with tables - 5.0.503.0

ProductivityPlus color pane did not work on tables that were embedded in placeholders. Also setting proofing language skipped tables, charts, and smart arts inside placeholders.

 

Features

Implement stretch feature - 5.0.519.0

ProductivityPlus has a new alignment feature Stretch. With Stretch, Shapes can be resized to the same size on one side. This is similar to Align but with adjusting the Shape's size. This comes with four new commands that also include new shortcuts: Stretch-Left (Shift+Alt+Left), Stretch-Right (Shift+Alt+Right), Stretch-Top (Shift+Alt+Up), Stretch-Bottom (Shift+Alt+Down)

Freeze Color Pane Header - 5.0.519.0

ProductivityPlus Color Pane header icons and "no fill" commands are fixed to the top of the task pane so that they will be always visible when scrolling through the colors.

 

May 2020

Bug fixes

Slideproof registry entries are under an incorrect registry key - 5.0.485.0

Change the company from "Templafy Aps" to "Templafy" in the Slideprood pipeline to avoid the registry key being created under the incorrect place

Check: some bullets fixes are grayed-out out in the check - 5.0.485.0

The PowerPoint Check rule PRBF was changed from consistency in presentation to checking the bullet format against the Slide Master. In general this gives better results and warnings, that are always fix-able.

 

Features

Link Excel Cells - 5.0.485.0

ProductivityPlus allows to link Excel cells in shape text. After pasting a text from an Excel cell in PowerPoint, the link callout appears to link the text to Excel. Text links can be updated through the overview pane.

Additionally, many small improvements were done to the Excel link functionality including:

Many new commands in the overview tree
Highlight on the slide when selecting an element in the overview tree.

 

 

February 2020

Bug fixes

Disable enable SlideProof breaks it - 5.0.471.0

Re-Enabling the add-in after disabling it was causing an error because the TaskPanes were created before SlideProof was fully initialised. The creation of the TaskPanes is now happening in a later stage of the initialisation process.

 

SlideProof Icons bmp to png - 5.0.471.0

Changed file suffix of icon cache for ProductivityPlus and Check from .bmp to .png

 

Templafy.SlideProof.AddIn has no strong key name - 5.0.471.0
Check and ProductivityPlus assemblies have strong key names. Strong keys or names provide security of reference from one component to another or from a root key to a component.

 

Removing "Request assistance" from Slideproof dialogue boxes - 5.0.471.0

Request assistance button has been removed from the Support Dialog.

 

Fix SlideProof shortcut collision - 5.0.471.0

Fixed shortcut collision of Open SlideMaster view with @ on German keyboard layout

 

December 2019

Bugs

Check warning: two sliders - 5.0.464.0

Warnings produced in Check for single slide alignment do only show one warning level slider and not two.

 

Send feature not working - 5.0.464.0

Fixed sending presentations from ProductivityPlus not working. This was introduced by the change to VSTO.

 

Features

Shortcut: new + reassign - 5.0.464.0

Updated shortcut to:
Excel Links: Ctrl+F8
Remove all animations: Ctrl+Alt+J
Pick Size & Position: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K
Apply Formatting: Ctrl+Shift+9
Super Size: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2

 

November 2019

Bugs

SlideProof does not load - 5.0.461.0

We fixed SlideProof not loading on certain machines. On these machines, SlideProof appeared as installed but showed with a COM runtime error in PowerPoint add-in settings.

The fix includes porting SlideProof from IDTExtensibility2 to VSTO. VSTO is considered the more stable and tested framework which leads to less technical problems.

 

Fix SlideProof incompatibility CapitalIQ - 5.0.412.0

When deploying SlideProof through Templafy Desktop on a machine with S&P CapitalIQ installed, the ribbon icons appear grayed out. Also after uninstalling, SlideProof does not load anymore.

Prepared improvements for SlideProof compatibility with other add-ins and fixed bug.

 

Text issue in Select next sticker/comment - 5.0.412.0

Added missing translations and renamed SlideProof to Templafy.

 

Excel: Error message throw when click on "Change source" - 5.0.412.0

Clicking "Update Source..." with ExcelLink stored in SharePoint works and shows no exception.

 

Check: wrong detection of Master font - 5.0.412.0
All the fonts in the XML are now taken into account during the check of the presentation. When fixing a list of fonts will be presented to the user.

 

Tooltip/Library : tooltips are still mentioning the SlideProof Library - 5.0.412.0

The tooltips don't mention anymore the possibility to use the Library.

 

Color Scheme mismatch: wrong color not picked up by the check - 5.0.412.0

Increased sensitivity for colors being detected as no-theme-color.

 

Color scheme mismatch does not work with grouped shapes - 5.0.412.0

SlideProof check now properly detects wrong scheme colors inside grouped shapes.

 

Features 

Shortcuts For SlideProof - 5.0.461.0

All Productivity Plus and Check commands have shortcuts assigned. Shortcuts can be seen in the tooltip on buttons and controls.

 

Removing the direct link to support@templafy.com from the productivity tools menu in Powerpoint - 5.0.412.0

Removed "Write to support@templafy.com" element from the threedots menu in the ProductivityPlus task pane.

 

Make create presentation from picture work with SVG - 5.0.412.0

Allow create presentation from SVGs.

 

October 2019

Bug fixes

Check: Color Scheme Mismatch warning is fixing to another color - 5.0.394.0

SlideProof check now shows the right preview color for shades when fixing color scheme warnings.

 

Features

Make ProductivityPlus + Check work without Office opening event - 5.0.394.0

SlideProof supports being enabled during the run of PowerPoint. This includes automatically opening of color- and productivity pane and ribbon icons not being grayed out.

 

September 2019

Bug fixes

Cannot fix check warning - text alignment in placeholder - 5.0.392.0

Fixed unfixable layout warning on picture placeholders.

 

Update Agenda and COMException - 5.0.392.0

Fixed COMException when updating agenda with certain presentations.

When updating an agenda, a lot of consecutive copy/paste operations are done. Analysis revealed, "explorer.exe" locks the clipboard for a very short time after a copy operation. If PowerPoint then tries to paste, the operation failed with the exception that the clipboard does not contain paste-able data.

The initial retry mechanism also retried the copy operation which leads to repeating the whole problem. Due to timing issues, it sometimes passed. The fix now only retries the paste, assuming the copy always succeeded. This leads to a much higher success rate when updating agendas.

 

Check: Color scheme warning just showing up for some charts - 5.0.392.0

Fixed check not finding wrong theme colors inside Donut charts.

 

August 2019

Bugfixes

CustomColor (added via registry) detected as color mismatch - 5.0.387.0

Registry custom colors are now also used while checking, this means no color mismatch warning will be displayed.

 

Check color scheme in Charts - 5.0.387.0

Check now produces a warning if a single value in a chart has a color not contained in the scheme colors.

 

Update Office.dll and interop assemblies - 5.0.387.0

Updated Microsoft Interop assemblies to 15.0. This fixes a compatibility issue when a certain other PowerPoint was uninstalled

 

Check wrongly detects chart shape background - 5.0.387.0

Fixed Check detecting certain shapes in charts as an invalid background color. Now, no false warning is displayed.

 

Bug fixes

 

Text mistaken for footnote throws warnings -  5.0.383.0

We Improved footnote detection heuristics to avoid the false identification of text at the bottom of the slide as footnotes. The conditions to be met for a text element to be considered a footnote have been modified to improve accuracy of the Check.

 

Add/Remove linked element doesn't refresh Excel overview pane -  5.0.383.0

Links Pane is now automatically refreshed after adding a new element or removing a link (though the remove link option within the menu).

 

Features

Remove limitations from Slideproof  - 5.0.383.0

We removed all limitations from SlideProof. No email address is now required as we don't contact the end-user or need to use the address. This will avoid conflicts during deployment. We verified the analytics were not affected by these changes.

 

Add Dummy Text Button to Text group -  5.0.383.0

We added a 'Dummy Text' button in the ProductivityPlus pane under the Text group. This button allows the user to replace text in the presentation with dummy text (Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, …).

 

Fix failing integration tests - 5.0.383.0

Fixed integration tests from previous task 9220.

 

Add back button to Settings panel -  5.0.383.0

Settings pane now has a back button to navigate back to the previous view.

 

Better name for 'Update Agenda' warning -  5.0.383.0

"Update Agenda" warning text changed to "Update Agenda Reminder" (Rule PRUA) Removed confusing child node for the warning

 

Display "Edit Agenda Layout" only in the Master View -  5.0.383.0

"Edit Agenda Layout" button is shown only in the Master View when a slide that belongs to an Agenda is selected

 

July 2019

Bug fixes

Check: level of warning is not working for font format -  5.0.372.0

Warnings that appear only in one shape are not considered anymore warnings with no impact so the warning level is not set as 4 by default and the user can configure level of the warning.

 

Error message stills displaying 'SlideProof' -  5.0.372.0

Replaced "SlideProof" with "Templafy" within error messages of Check and ProductivityPlus.

 

New section inserted at bottom - 5.0.372.0

When inserting a table of contents or a new section it was added at the end of the presentation. We fixed this issue and now:

• A new TOC will be created inserting the Agenda layout before the selected slide.
• A new section will be added before the selected slide, always keeping the Agenda slide in the first section.

This behaviour is expected to be more intuitive for the user.

 

Change pointing URL for Excel - 5.0.372.0

The help link of the Excel pane now points to Templafy's Excel Integration knowledge base website.

 

SlideProof crashes creating agenda with no slide selected - 5.0.372.0

Now it is possible to create the Agenda when any Slide is selected or there are no slides in the presentation.

 

Features

Unify Check Icons -  5.0.372.0

Unified ribbon icon to be the same as in CheckForPowerPoint

 

Grey out unused sections of the TOC -  5.0.372.0

Option checkboxes for TOC fields that are not present in the Slide Master Agenda layout are now disabled. These fields could not be present in the Slide Master as a deliberate decision of the Admin and this way we avoid user confusion.

 

Bugfixes

Format painter text is broken - 5.0.366.0

The text of the Format Painter menu was not displaying correctly. To solve the problem we added the missing translations that were removed when the StylePainter was taken out from the project.

 

Call-out from PowerShapes disappearing - 5.0.366.0

The call-out from PowerShapes was disappearing after toggling another state. Now the visible shape in the group is selected and therefore the call-out remains visible when toggling through all the states of the PowerShape.

 

Network drive and Excel - open and update fail when Excel is closed - 5.0.366.0

Openning an Excel source file (located in a shared folder) through the 'Open' option from a PowerPoint linked element now works fine even for a shared folder in the network. Updates made to the Excel file are also reflected in PowerPoint correctly after clicking the 'Update' option.

 

Features

Delete 'Manual' and change link to Support - 5.0.366.0

Within the Settings menu: 'Support' was updated so it redirects the user to support.templafy.com and the 'Manual' option was removed as the link was broken and the option was obsolete.

 

Update icons and naming to new design - 5.0.366.0

Check and ProductivityPlus icons now have a new design and new names that better adapt to Templafy's product design.

 

May 2019

Bug fixes

Template Changer: "Placeholders: Keep positions and formatting" twice - 5.0.355.0

Fixed "Placeholders: Keep positions and formatting" twice by removing the duplicated key from the processor file

 

Custom footnote type does not work when adding other text - 5.0.355.0

The prefix text in the footnote is kept and the format of the footnote does not revert to the default (al)

 

Switching configurations during demo showed Library - 5.0.355.0

Removed Library from Productivity Plus components (this bug never reached production)

 

Colors Pane needs double-click for cells - 5.0.355.0

Selecting the same color on the color tools pane on different cells does not require anymore clicking twice.

 

Button label not showing correctly - 5.0.355.0

Fixed several minor UI glitches

 

Custom color not working for font - 5.0.355.0

Modified parsing method from the string custom color value to a hexadecimal number.

 

April 2019

Features

Turn on/off features - 5.0.347.0

Added the possibility to turn on and off single features using registry keys

 

Excel: Change Source in Overview - 5.0.347.0

It is now possible to change the source file of all linked elements at once through the overview pane (Group-by-file view)

 

UI: Polishing - 5.0.347.0

Small changes to UI for a more consistent look.

 

Ribbon configuration - 5.0.347.0

The ribbon and the Pane have been redesigned, this includes re-ordering and re-naming of controls. Added the possibility to set the configurations "ProductivityPlus" and "Complete" as a separate Tab called "ProductivityPlus" by switching the on the option "Set as home Tab" under "Ribbon Configuration"

 

Version/Update info missing in pane - 5.0.347.0

The current version of SlideProof/ProductivityPlus is now displayed on the top right corner of the Settings pane.

 

Update All - available in source-file view - 5.0.347.0

Added the possibility to update all shapes associated with a file on the excel overview pane under the "group by file" view.

 

Important presentation callout - 5.0.347.0

Updated the UI of the "Important presentation" callout

 

Delete Advanced Group - 5.0.347.0

Moved the "Create PowerShape" commands and "template changer" command to the "Other" group. Deleted the Advanced group.

 

Changing SlideProof configurations - 5.0.347.0

Added the possibility to switch between configurations

 

Bug fixes

Updating source to a wrong file breaks history - 5.0.347.0

Excel links do not have store history anymore.

 

Font color for "Insert flow" different between shapes - 5.0.347.0

The font style is preserved while inserting more flow items

 

Change Template UI bug - 5.0.347.0

The UI of the "Template UI changer" has been fixed

 

Icon missing on first start - 5.0.347.0

Fixed the missing icons during the first start after installation/deployment

 

Update All closes opened Excel files (6) - 5.0.347.0

Fixed: opened Excel files do not close while Update All Fixed: only the last Excel process was terminated if the shapes were linked from multiple files

 

Excel Link not working (duplicating table, no permanent link) - 5.0.347.0

Fixed Excel link not working under certain circumstances. If a machine contained multiple OneDrive sync paths with the same mount-point, linking and updating an Excel link might not work. This problem is solved by excluding any ambiguous paths.

 

Excel: change file inconsistent state - 5.0.347.0

Preventing to change the file if the range is not present in the new file Showing errors during normal & bulk operations while changing the source file

 

False 'Update All' if in editing mode (7) - 5.0.347.0

Errors during bulk operations are now collected and if any happens a message box is shown at the end showing the number of update shapes and the number of not updated shapes

 

Menu broken in presentation-wide placeholders - 5.0.347.0

Updated the IconEmpty to have the Templafy logo instead of the SlideProof logo The presentation-wide placeholders command don't have anymore an icon

 

Switching configurations during demo showed Library - 5.0.347.0

Removed Library from Productivity Plus components (this bug never reached production)

 

February 2019

Features 

SendMail unreliable - 5.0.312.0

Updated TemplafySendMail.exe Using v141 C++ toolkit Built by Azure DevOps pipeline Signed with Templafy ApS certificate This will pass the test at virustotal.com without any problems.

UI: Colors Closed Taskpane background is now Templafy white

 

Make SlideProof GDPR compliant - 5.0.312.0

SlideProof sends analytic events with obfuscated email address.

 

UI: Controls - 5.0.312.0

Updated UI controls to follow Templafy standards and color scheme including font colors, switch-toggle button, slider, textbox, tooltip, expander, radiobutton etc.

 

Callout follows shape in SlideProof - 5.0.312.0

Callouts now follows the shapes

 

Add ability to search settings - 5.0.312.0

SlideProof settings are now searchable. We added search bar in the top of the Settings pane.

 

Features configuration - 5.0.312.0

After the release, it will be possible to turn on and off every single feature by using the registry key "NameOfTheFeature_IsEnabled" (Ex: "Agenda_IsEnabled).

 

Change Buy Link - 5.0.312.0

The buy link is configurable through the registry and have a default value of "https://www.templafy.com/pricing/ "

 

ApplicationInsights - 5.0.312.0

SlideProof now uses ApplicationInsights as analytics stack.

 

Configurations for Check and ProductivityPlus - 5.0.312.0

After releasing the software it will be possible to have 3 different configurations (using the Configuration key in the registry):

• TemplafyDesktopCheck: Only check and Save&Send will be available. The commands are displayed in the Templafy tab on the ribbon
• TemplafyDesktopProductivityPlus: All Slideproof components except Check and Library are available. The commands are displayed on the Slideproof tab
• TemplafyDesktopComplete: ProductivityPlus+ Check components are available. The commands are displayed on the Slideproof tab

 

Settings on pane - 5.0.312.0

Added context menu for all panes

 

Add Group-by-file - 5.0.312.0

After releasing it will be possible to have two different grouping options in the Excel Overview Pane. One by slide and one by source file.

 

Bug fixes

RFA Send mail fails (Access denied) - 5.0.312.0

Updated TemplafySendMail.exe to be signed with Templafy certificate and using the latest C++ built tools.

 

Workspace: still on when exporting as PDF - 5.0.312.0

When using SlideProof Save&Send functionality the workspace is hidden

 

December 2018

Features

Colors: Hide Theme Colors -  5.0.249.0

Added a new setting that will allow the user to hide and show the theme colors from the Color Pane.

 

Productivity: Switch texts resets text formatting -  5.0.249.0

Switch Texts now keeps the Emphasis (Superscript, Subscript, Bold, Italic, Underline etc.) when switching the texts. This is useful especially when working with footnotes.

 

Custom colors between theme and shades for all -  5.0.249.0

Colors ordering changed to Default, Theme, Custom, Shades.

 

Not using Automated_Build anymore -  5.0.249.0

Removed Automated_Build build definition

 

Release Pipeline -  5.0.249.0

There is now a build pipeline Templafy.SlideProof.LicenseManager which builds (without tests) and a release pipeline Templafy.SlideProof.Web which automatically publishes/deploys the changes to the license manager website https://license.veodin.com/ on merge to the master branch.

 

Check: Distorted Images -  5.0.249.0

SlideProof Check is now able to detect and fix distorted images. Distorted image means broken aspect ratio and the threshold of detection is 5%. If the image is distorted more than 5% 2 fixes are offered:

• The fix with Resize (Default) will resize the longer side to bring the image to the original aspect ratio.
• The fix with Crop will restore the image to the original size and crop the longer side to preserve the aspect ratio. To maintain the proportions the crop will be applied half on the left and half on the right in case we are cropping the width or half on the top and half on the bottom in case we are cropping the height.

 

Productivity: Add and remove colors in the color pane - 5.0.249.0

The registry key CustomColors, that is used for specifying theme color names, now also supports hexadecimal values like #AA0022.

 

License Manager -  5.0.249.0

Fixed missing icons on the website by including proper fonts. Added release pipeline for the website.

 

MSI - 5.0.249.0

We fixed the installation of per-user version failing when installing in a machine where the per-machine version was installed before.

 

Bug fixes

Agenda: Publish presentation (with Agenda) as shapes throws an exception -  5.0.249.0

While Agenda is created it puts the shape outside of the slide with zero height. Preview, that is shown in the library, can't be generated for shapes with zero height or width. This code now will skip all shapes with zero height or width while publishing.

 

Templafy Integration Task Panes closing Might Break -  5.0.249.0

When opening the Templafy Task pane with no presentation open the event was throwing an exception because the active window context was null. Fixed by checking for null.

 

Hiding panes does not work in the installed version -  5.0.249.0

Added missing files to the installer.

 

Installing PerUser after PerMachine fails -  5.0.249.0

There is a bug in Wix that prevents you to install a certificate on the Per User store if it was previously installed in the Per Machine store. To fix this we created a Custom Action that is checking if the certificate is already installed and if yes it is skipping the certificate component.