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Release notes published during 2019.
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20 March 2019
Text Rules, 3D Views, Color Profiles on V2 Distiller, SVG Improvements.Hi everyone! February has been a busy month for us; In preparation for growth, we moved into our new office. Photos coming soon 😊

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Text Rules

These are set of features relating to Text elements on the canvas: Text Anchor, Character Spacing and Text CasesText Anchor allows you to set a vertical anchor position for Text elements. We have Top (default), Middle and Bottom. This feature is useful to vertically-anchoring multi-line texts so for instance, a Textbox anchored to the bottom will stretch upwards as more lines are being added.Character Spacing allows users to adjust horizontal spacing between each letter in a Textbox. Text Case makes it quicker to toggle from lowercase to upper case.
Text anchor, character spacing and text case controls in the sticky context menu
We have included these controls in the sticky context menu. To enable this in each store, admins will need to reload the latest Layout hereThis has been set as the default in the admin but will not affect your store until you reload new layout. We needed to group the similar text controls under more (⋯), because in inline display mode and on smaller PC screens, they get cut off for some users.

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3D Views

3D views makes it possible for end customers to visualize their designs on an actual product with perspective in 3D.
A design previewed on a product in perspective using the 3D view
You can view the 3D Studio here to create models and read more here

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Color Profiles on V2 Distiller

Our version 2 PDF Distiller now allows you to set a destination ICC profile from a list in settings page. These profiles are not embedded but used in interpreting the RGB values to CMYK. We also added Render Intent for Image conversion in V2.
Choosing a destination ICC profile and render intent for the V2 PDF distiller

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SVG Improvements

Our Version 1 distiller had a bug with SVG paths that contains subpath elements. As a result of this issue, certain SVGs render inaccurately. We were able to solve this issue and now render all SVG elements with high fidelity.Should you have any issues with SVGs being rendered inaccurately, please do contact us. Our goal is to eventually merge both engines as we work to perfect them.

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File Upload Types

This allows you to limit the types of files users can upload in the plugin (Outside the app). You can set this in settings page
The settings field that limits which file types users can upload in the plugin
We are finalizing licensing agreements for the new Image Editor as such, it’s being delayed. We hope to bring it on board a few weeks from now: https://www.photoeditorsdk.com/
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16 January 2019
Design history, Project Auto-Save, New PDF Distiller, Projects Search & Filter.Hi guys! We appreciate your support over the past year and we look forward to a much more exciting year ahead.We are working to build a brand new analytics and customer journey app that will help you make more sales. Over the first quarter of this year, we will integrate a part of it into PitchPrint. Our vision has always been to help our customers sell more; And if we can do this by giving you more actionable insights into your users’ pain points, then we will be pleased to.Here are the features we released over the past month..

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Design history

This feature allows you to track design creation history and revert back to any point in time.
The History tab listing thumbnails and dates of earlier design edits
To view this, simply navigate to your designs page. Hover over any design and click the configure icon and you’ll find the History Tab.You can view thumbnails and date of each edits you’ve made on the design and revert to a any prior version by clicking the button labelled “Make Latest”

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Project Auto-Save

We have the auto-save feature now on PitchPrint. This automatically saves your customer’s design and updates the product session so should in case they refresh their browser, they can always resume their work.This is set to save at a 2-minute interval and can be enabled in your settings pageWe are working to display a customer notification and option to set the intervals in our settings page.

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New PDF Distiller

Yes we do have a new PDF Distiller now. The old PDF engine we use is based on TCPDF which development has been stopped and as such, some SVG specifications were missing and never implemented. The new one is based on CairoGraphics which is quite robust and is used by a lot of organizations including Mozilla.We have yet to implement color profiles on it but works excellently in RGB mode and renders near perfect object positioning. In addition, we are running it on AWS Lambda, a robust system with 99.95% availability and primed for more aggressive feature updates.You can render your PDFs using the new distiller by navigating to the settings page and selecting Version 2 in the PDF Distiller option box. Please note, only projects saved from 14th January upwards will render on this platform.
Selecting Version 2 in the PDF Distiller option box in settings
Should you have any fonts issues, kindly send us the font via [support](<mailto: support@pitchprint.com>) and we’ll gladly install for you.

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Projects Search & Filter

With this release, you can search projects by a customer’s details like name, email as well as product title. In addition, you can filter the displayed projects by dates they were saved.

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Skip preview

Enabling this feature in settings page means users can save their work without going through the preview window. This is most useful in mini-displays.

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Next Month..

  • Brand new Image Editor
  • Color Profiles on new Distiller
  • Import designs from PDF, Illustrator
  • Text & Design Rules
  • Text Fit
  • SVG improvements
Cheers and do have an awesome year ahead ✌