Release Notes – empower® Slides Branding 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.

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