Release Notes – empower® Slides 9.10

The File Size Inspector in empower^® for PowerPoint has been introduced. This feature can be used to calculate the size of included pictures, with the option to run a picture compression and thereby reduce the overall file size.

The side pane can be displayed permanently again. If it is displayed permanently, it can be expanded and collapsed any time.

This option can be enabled in the User Settings.

A new message in form of a notification bar has been introduced.

If a user opens a presentation which contains outdated translations, the notification bar appears to inform the user.

A new message in form of a notification bar has been introduced.

If a user decides to update a locally stored presentation via the Update Wizard, this notification bar informs the user that the locally stored presentation has been closed and the updated presentation has been opened directly from the empower^® Library or SharePoint.

A new message in form of a dialog box has been introduced for the deletion of elements in the empower^® Library.

This dialog box informs users if elements that are part of a translation or update group are included in their selection. In addition, they are informed that deleting those elements may result in the elements being removed from the update or translation group or in the update group being dissolved completely, if one of the elements is a root element.

Users can then decide if they want to delete the selection or not.

The robustness of empower^® against inconsistent behavior of some other add-ins has been improved.

Delays when selecting a large number of objects at once have been reduced.

Fixed an issue which caused incorrect thumbnails to be displayed when multiple logo variants were defined in the Presentation Settings.

Fixed an issue which, in certain cases, caused the color scheme matching not to be applied during the conversion.

Fixed an issue where, in case of corrupted shapes within a PowerPoint master, empower^® Elements (e.g. Harvey Ball) could not be inserted.

Fixed an issue which, in certain cases, caused the compare functionality in the version history to falsely report changes.

Fixed an issue where, in certain cases, translations were based on two-letter language codes instead of full language names, resulting in incorrect translations (i.e. regional dialects such as en-GB or en-US were not taken into account).

Fixed an issue where, in some cases, links to slides in the same presentation created with the PowerPoint built-in feature would point to the wrong slide after saving the presentation to the empower^® Library.

Fixed an issue that caused the agenda to be broken if a shape was selected on a slide or copied to the clipboard before triggering agenda creation or update.

Fixed an issue which caused the input for custom master fields to be reset each time the Presentation Settings were opened.

Fixed an issue where, in some cases, the empower^® Library could appear empty or remain stuck showing an infinite progress spinner.

Fixed an issue which could cause PowerPoint to freeze for a few seconds after closing the PowerPoint window if the empower^® Library was open.

Fixed a memory exhaustion issue that could occur in the empower^® Sync when synchronizing large volumes of data.

Fixed an issue which caused an error message to be shown after inserting or updating an agenda in case the user had currently selected the space between two slides in the slide pane.

Fixed an issue which caused empower^® Elements to be shown to users who had not been assigned the admin role Content Admin in the section Corporate Design Templates in the empower^® Library.

Fixed in issue which caused hidden colors defined in a design to be displayed as correction options in the empower^® Corporate Design Check results.

Fixed an issue which caused the side pane to become unresponsive if clients were running in a Citrix environment.

Fixed an issue that caused the external link button to be shown when the feature was active but no link had been configured.

Fixed an issue where the user was unable to enter decimal values in the Layout Tools if the PowerPoint user interface language was set to English but the regional format was set to German.

Fixed an issue where for some features of the Layout Tools, the unit was not shown.

Fixed various typos regarding numbers and units in the Layout Tools.

Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the icon of the button Configure Ribbon in the Layout Tools was displayed incorrectly in dark office themes.

Fixed an issue which caused the dialog box which is used to configure which Layout Tools are displayed in the empower^® Ribbon to be displayed incorrectly when opening it the second time.

Fixed an issue where, in some cases, letters would be omitted when typing in PowerPoint.

Fixed an issue where newly saved master templates could not be applied on the presentation from the library.

Fixed an issue which, in some cases, caused master fields to disappear after opening a presentation.

Fixed an issue which caused the Presentation Settings to open when opening a presentation, even if no required master fields were defined.

Fixed an issue where some bullet types within tables could prevent the empower^® Corporate Design Check to work properly. 

Fixed an issue which caused logos to be inserted with bullets in case the logo was set up to be inserted in a visible placeholder.

Fixed an issue which caused logos to be inserted in a bad quality in case the logo was set up to be inserted in a visible placeholder.

Fixed an issue which, in some cases, caused the login window for integration authentication to open in the background, preventing users from searching the integration for no visible reason.

Fixed an issue where the File Size Inspector was unable to execute PowerPoint’s built-in compression feature, which in some cases caused the application to crash.

Fixed an issue which caused the Layout Tools to be unavailable in .NET 8 versions.

This issue only occurred if you were using a license for empower^® Slides as a standalone installation.