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July 2021
5.0.752.0
Accept spaces in ProductivityPlus when reading in-template colors
ProductivityPlus will now handle a mismatch in names of in-template Custom Color names coming from Hive. If the in-template Custom Color name has a trailing or leading space, ProductivityPlus will attempt to resolve this name with the name it gets from Hive, in order to correctly display the in-template colors.
Test case 21115: View all
Created a Ranorex test, for test case 21110: Update Link.
Test case 21110: Update link
Created a Ranorex test, for test case 21110: Update Link.
Resolve problems in Applications
Make tests more solid by maximizing the apps and closing the connections before quitting them
Test case 20363: Create link (graph/table)
Created a Ranorex test, for the new test case where a chart is copied.
Test case [new] Create link with one cell
Created a Ranorex test, for the new test case where only a single cell is copied.
Test case 21036: Create link (multiple cells)
Created a first Ranorex tests, for the test case 21036 (multiple cells).
Replace the Templafy user with Current User in the pipeline
Replaced the Templafy user with Current User in the manifest of the build pipeline.
"Excel is busy now" message appearing in PowerPoint
The bug has been resolved by checking if the clipboard contains any excel data before starting other operations and not at the end. Before this fix changing the selection in PowerPoint was triggering the parsing of some Excel data even if the user has not been using Excel or did not copy anything from Excel.
Fix the path to the Update link button
The paths has been corrected to be faster
June 2021
5.0.736.0
Remove the Contribute technical and interaction data setting - feature
The Contribute technical and interaction data setting was removed from settings of ProductivityPlus.
Use Text.Localized and Text.Unlocalized factory methods - feature
Using Text.Localized and Text.Unlocalized factory methods instead of calling l10n constructors directly.
Remove shortcuts in tooltips when toggled off - feature
Shortcuts are no longer shown in tooltips if shortcuts have been disabled.
Improve the UX of the Super-size feature - feature
The tooltip for Super-Size was adjusted to be more descriptive of how to use it.
Add better tooltip on errors in Excel Link - feature
The tooltip for the exclamation mark icon in Excel Link has been changed to be more descriptive of what went wrong.
Check Tick and Cross - feature
Check regards fonts used in Slide Master inside tables and grouped shapes as valid fonts. Check rule about Inconsistent Font/Size ignores symbol fonts like Wingdings and Monotype Sorts.
Change source does not work for the excel chart - bug
Close the Excel running in background when changing the source file
Fix shortcut localization CommandBase - bug
An unlocalized piece of text for shortcuts has been localized.
Wrong order + duplicate colors (Custom Colors Admin Center) - bug
Added a workaround for the case where the empty strings are supplied from the registry Custom Colors. Now it doesn't lead to creation of white colors.
Using Excel Link from a big Excel file takes long even if copying just a few cells - bug
Productivity is now faster while checking if the content that is being pasted belongs to Excel to show the link button
Translations in tooltip are being cut off - bug
The German translation for the Distribute with Resize Horizontally command had their title and description switched by mistake. This has now been corrected.
April 2021
5.0.725.0
Color Pane tooltip - feature
Colors pane tooltips contain a disclaimer about not being applicable for Charts.
Compress picture: Make it work on Master Slide - feature
The Compress Pictures command can now be used from the Slide Master.
We should not exclude presentations for custom colors check if custom colors have been defined - feature
The default themes from Microsoft are not excluded from Check anymore . When "Allow color shades" is disabled the user will now have warnings when using the shades.
Add a toggle in the settings to deactivate/active all the shortcuts - feature
A toggle to enable/disable shortcuts was added to the Productivity section of Settings.
Use Outlook interop API if Outlook is default email client - feature
If the default email client of the user is Outlook, ProductivityPlus will use Outlook to create the mail from Save and Send, which will result in the users email signature being visible immediately.
Crop should never change the actual size of the picture - bug
Fix issue in Check that caused cropped distorted images to resize when fixing the warning using the Crop option.
Distribute vertically does not distribute relatively to the slide - bug
Fixed issue in Productivity Plus alignment that caused multistep distribute to miss out one step
5.0.711.0
Create release pipeline for all stages - feature
Created release pipeline for all stages in Azure for the Productivity project.
The Check should ignore the locked slides - feature
Check ignores slides that are locked by Dynamics as they must not be changed by the end-user.
Make Tools Pane 6 icons width by default - feature
The default width of the ProductivityPlus toolpane was made bigger.
Change currency / number check format to 1.111,00 instead of using # - feature
The format for currency examples was changed from using the number sign like this: #.###.###,##. It now uses numbers instead, like this: 1.111.111,00.
Change our build Timestamp URI - feature
The Timestamp URI has been updated to http://rfc3161timestamp.globalsign.com/advanced
Check shows class names when checking presentation - bug
While running Check, progress showed class names instead of texts.
Apply Default Textbox format doesn't apply bold - bug
The Apply Default Textbox format command will now apply font properties from the corresponding indent levels setup in the template.
Switching chevron / pentagon does not work as expected - bug
Fix issue when changing type of flow that caused the angle of chevrons to change.
Update not working as expected with several Agendas - bug
A bug as been resolved in which updating the agenda was duplicating the shapes in the main table of content in case more agendas were present in the presentation.
Custom harvey ball has visual issues on Master slide - bug
Fix issue with color pane not setting color on hidden shapes in a group. This prevented to customize the original Harvey Ball assets.
Broken shortcut should not cause the buttons to disappear - bug
Fixed issue that caused buttons to disappear if an invalid shortcut was set in registry.
Error when creating Excel link that’s already being linked via the Ampler -Establish Excel Link- option - bug
Fixed issue where linking Excel charts did not work if the same slide has a Ampler chart linked and Ampler was running. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
5.0.699.0
Update Excel link does not work - bug
Fixed a problem introduced few commits ago that broke the update of the Excel Link
5.0.698.0
Fix SonarCloud critical cognitive complexity warnings - feature
Fixed all the code smells around cognitive complexity too high.
Update the name in the pipeline that uses Vnext-Shared - feature
The Pipeline has been updated to reflect the changes done in the Azure subscription
Make all the rest of classes that use ITaskFactory to be hooked through the Dependency Injection - feature
Minor refactoring in the product code. Using Dependency Injection to spawn classes that implement ITaskFactory.
System test - feature
DEV New presentation added for system tests and modified an existing one
Fix InconsistentNumberOfDecimalPlaces - exclude if money rule is enabled and other way around - feature
Exclude InconsistentNumberOfDecimalPlaces on currency and number sperator rules
Auto-suggest fix to the most often used format - feature
We provide the fix button for the inconsistent currency and number separators check.
Remove the Toggle PowerShape Cache visibility feature - feature
The Toggle PowerShape Cache visibility command was removed.
Fix SonarCloud critical rename and NotSupportedException warnings - feature
This release is an internal refactoring to fix code smells.
Slide Number and Date Placeholder do not work as expected - bug
Resolved issue in ProductivityPlus when inserting PowerPoint placeholders date and slide number which where left initial. Now, date and slide number are set as text.
Inconsistent decimal number placement rule is not localized - bug
The words "decimal" and "decimals" are now localized
Fix double word parser to not react to numbers - bug
The double word rule will not take in account numbers anymore but still react to words with numbers in it (for example 000 000 is not a double word but A1A A1A it is)
5.0.682
Ungroup does not work - bug
A bug has been resolved that was preventing shapes to be ungrouped in case there was only one selection.
Edit Excel Link tooltip does not get parameter text - bug
A bug has been resolved in which the excel sheet name was not retrieved correctly to be shown in the command tooltip.
Some menu items have too much empty space - bug
Check menu item icons were not being shown in a dropdown. The icons are now shown like they are supposed to.
Cross button doesn't work sometimes on the warning dialog in check - bug
An issue as been fixed that was preventing the warning callout to be closed pressing the X.
Repeated words: not picked up when the repetition is at the end of a sentence and followed by a dot - bug
We can now detect the double words, when there is a punctuation sign after the second word.
Question mark is misaligned - bug
The misaligned question mark inside Check warnings has been aligned properly.
Link callout doesn't show for several cells from one row - bug
We have fixed a bug where link callout did not work for several cells from one row.
Apply the "auto-size" option as part of pick/apply - bug
In certain scenarios when applying a format to a shape, the size would not get applied. This has now been fixed and the size will be applied if selected.
Tooltip mention an option that does not exist - bug
The Warning Details setting has been removed from Check settings. Check will now always show details on warnings.
Fix the proofing language - bug
We have fixed the "Fix" functionality that was broken in the Proofing Language and Font Formats checks.
Set font color resizes shape - bug
Setting the font color through the color pane will not resize the shape in case the font size is bigger than the shape even in case "Resize to fit" is selected.
Check returning different results depending on Presentation - bug
Check failed on certain presentations. This caused no warnings shown at all. The issue was recently introduced with the support for allowing certain symbolic fonts like Wingdings in presentations. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
PowerShapes might break z-order - bug
ProductivityPlus had an issue with applying z-order on shapes when changing PowerShapes or updating linked Excel objects if the same slide contained grouped shapes. This can have caused shapes to hide behind others. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
Inserting special character doesn't work stable when no text box is selected - bug
When one of the Insert shape commands was checked, and the Insert Symbol command was executed, a default textbox would be inserted without the symbol. The same would happen if a slide was selected. This has now been fixed and a textbox with the chosen symbol will be inserted in these cases.
Fix fails for Alignment of Placeholders over Layouts - bug
The rule has been moved to level 4 and the setting IsMasterReadOnly has been removed. By default, it was set to true and there was no easy way to change it.
Updating Excel Link breaks Z-order - bug
ProductivityPlus now properly restores the Chart or Table's z-order position on the slide after it was updated through Excel Link.
ProductivityPlus: Add icons to Excel Link dropdown commands - feature
Some Excel Link menu items were lacking icons, which have now been added.
ProductivityPlus: Calculate Changeset and update Agenda - feature
Agenda now does partial updates. This means that it is now possible to update an Agenda without losing user edits on the Agenda slides.
Check: Missing quotation mark rule should work by paragraph - feature
The fix for missing quotation marks now operates on paragraphs, instead of shape's whole text.
Check: Add auto fix for overlapping image (send it back) - feature
We have now auto-fix of the image overlapping text warning, which automatically puts the image back of the text.
Check: Create rule to check for images that overlap the text - feature
We have now a rule that gives a warning if an image overlaps the text.
Check: Investigate or adjust Missing Quotation Marks - feature
We have made an improvement to the missing quotation mark rule. We are now using the opposite missing quote to insert, also taking into consideration the current language.
Check: Investigate or adjust Spacing of colons - feature
Space after colon now has human text in fix suggestions. Prefer one space when it's encountered often enough.
Check: Adjust levels - feature
Selected Check warnings have had their levels adjusted.
Fallback Localization to English - feature
Texts now fall back to the English version if they have not been localized for the chosen language.
Check: Address number of fonts warning - feature
A warning would show when more than 3 fonts were used in a presentation. This warning has now been removed.
Check: Add fonts of Design shapes in Master Fonts - feature
Fonts that are used in layouts are now seen as valid by Check. This means that they will no longer produce warnings when used in presentations.
Check: Auto-suggest the fix for the duplicated words - feature
Added the default fix for doublewords that it will replace a duplicated word with a single one.
Check: Make multiple warnings for each double word occurence - feature
Returning now one warning for each doubleword occurrence.
Version 5.0.616
Exception with Shortcuts - bug
Fix of uncritical but high-frequency exception.
Tick and Cross (from SkabelonDesign) are recognized as a mismatch - bug
Check produced warnings with symbol fonts like Wingdings and Monotype Sign. Those are not excluded from consistency checks.
Some analytics sent twice - bug
Fixed issue that caused certain analytics events to be sent twice. The issue was introduced with the refactoring of the internal command structure.
Ctrl + Shift + N shortcut works not correctly - bug
When trying to use the windows shortcut 'Ctrl+Shift+N' while the Save as file dialog was open, the ProductivityPlus shortcut would be used instead, causing an error message to appear and rendering the windows shortcut inaccessible. This has now been fixed, and the ProductivityPlus shortcut will no longer be activated in this case.
Save as PDF in Productivity plus is exporting the hidden Slides as well: not matching native PPT export PDF - bug
Fixed the bug that led hidden slides to appear in PDF when the document was saved to PDF through the Productivity plus panel.
Check: Inconsistent Title Capitalization cannot be fixed when starting with a number/symbol - bug
Fixed issue with Check not working properly when title capitalization contained numbers.
Share section German: Wrong text - it says "Aktie" which means market share - bug
Fixed the wrong German translation for "Share" word in various places of UI.
Text issue in German: Open instead of Bearbeiten - bug
In the Link callout menu, the button which opens the linked documents displays now the correct text in English and in German.
Check: does not detect space before punctuation - bug
Fix issue in Check where space punctuation was not detected at the end-of-line or end-of-text.
Change source to any locked excel file produces an error - bug
ProductivityPlus shows better error messages when an update of a linked element did not work, independently if the update was triggered from the task pane or the callout.
All Links updates apparently working even if the file was deleted (Parallels) - bug
Fixed issue in ProductivityPlus with Link Excel: When updating links from the overview pane and having the Excel file deleted in the meantime, the icons stayed green and did not indicate an error. The icon changed to a warning symbol indicating a broken link.
Updating a link does not automatically save the workbook - bug
Updating an Excel link in the presentation is not automatically saving the workbook anymore.
Color mismatch fix fails in Check - bug
A bug has been resolved and now comparing two theme colors should create a warning only if the two theme colors are different.
Swap text removes hyperlinks - bug
The code has been improved to support also hyperlinks while swapping text.
Check misses out on missing outline on a placeholder - bug
A bug has been resolved where a placeholder with no outline is not creating a warning if the placeholder in the layout has the outline.
Footnotes [Placeholder] is not deleted from the slide - bug
The Footnotes [Placeholder] is now deleted from the slide when all footnotes (superscript) are deleted.
Color pane UI - bug
Fixed the style of the color pane.
ProductivityPlus: Insert symbol command - feature
New feature that allows users to quickly insert symbols into their presentation has been added. The feature itself is hidden until the final design for the UI is available.
Check: Create a command and reset the settings to default - feature
Till now a user could toggle the warning levels of different detections in the Check tool, however, there was no way to restore to default. A button has been added to the "advanced" section of the Check settings to reset all the values to default.
ProductivityPlus: Auto-size command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for selecting the Auto-size property of shapes. This allows users to quickly switch between the three options:
- Do not Autofit
- Shrink text on overflow
- Resize shape to fit text
It replaces the Toggle Auto-Fit command, which would only toggle the Auto-Size property between the "Do not Autofit" and "Resize shape to fit text" options.
The feature works with one or more shapes selected and also comes with a shortcut, which will cycle through the available options when used. The shortcut is: (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W)
ProductivityPlus: Word-wrap command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for toggling Word-wrap. This allows users to quickly toggle Word-wrap for one, or multiple shapes. The shortcut for this new command is: (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y)
ProductivityPlus: Clean-up command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new feature Clean-Up to finalize presentations and remove unwanted information like:
- Remove metadata like author, tags, etc.
- Remove annotations like comments, stickers, and speaker notes.
- Remove effects like animations and transitions.
- Remove extraneous elements like empty placeholders, unused layouts, hidden slides, and shapes.
- Redact like replace all texts with dummy texts.
Clean-Up replaces Remove All Animations, Remove Unused Layouts and Replace Text with Dummy Texts.
Clean-Up has Ctrl+Alt+J assigned as a shortcut.
5.0.560.0/5.0.561.0
Distribute horizontally and vertically is not working as expected - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
Fixed a bug where alignment tools were grayed out but should be available instead.
Can not close Master View with keyboard shortcut - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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" - bug
A false warning appeared about a color scheme mismatch when "no font" was used.
Save and send drop-down icons are identical - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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] - bug
A shape with a blue rectangle has been removed from Templafy_SlideProof_Defaults.pptx since it was useless.
Color pane shows multiple highlights - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
The tooltip has been updated to use the correct placeholder name
Features
Increase / Decrease Line spacing - bug
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+')
5.0.519.0
Remove references to "TemplateChanger" - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
Productivity and Check got a performance improvement when working with charts that contain a lot of data.
5.0.503.0
Check tool doesn't display when think-cell add-in is active - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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 - bug
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" - bug
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 - bug
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.
Implement stretch feature - feature
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 - feature
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.
5.0.485.0
Slideproof registry entries are under an incorrect registry key - bug
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 - bug
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.
Link Excel Cells - feature
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.
Version 5.0.471.0
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
Version 5.0.464.0
Bugs
5.0.464.0
Warnings produced in Check for single slide alignment do only show one warning level slider and not two.
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
Version 5.0.461.0
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.
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