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Release Notes: Freehand
InVision is committed to continually improving Freehand by resolving bugs and often implementing new features with each release. You'll find our latest Freehand release notes below.
December 2nd, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
The latest Freehand release includes a couple of notable improvements:
- Image rendering: If your freehand includes many images or particularly large image files, you'll notice the freehand loads much faster, scrolls more smoothly, and uses fewer system resources now that we've overhauled our image rendering to improve performance.
- Deep links: If your freehand includes deep links, now when a recipient clicks the link, it will pan and zoom smoothly to the target object.
What's fixed in Freehand?
This release includes a single, important fix:
- That's a wrap: Your text within text boxes and sticky notes will now wrap appropriately.
December 1st, 2020
What's fixed in Freehand?
This release includes just one hotfix:
- Selecting a filled object: Now if you hover over a filled object, you should be able to select the object as expected. Previously, in certain cases, a bug was preventing the ability to select filled objects.
November 30th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
See your freehands at a glance:
- Expanded My projects list: If you're an InVision V6 user on the Free, Starter, Pro, or Team plan, now when you click the My projects tab on the homepage, you'll see any freehands you've previously accessed.
November 24th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
Ready to do more with elements in Freehand? Get started with the newly added More icon (•••) in the contextual menu, and try out the new download feature for images:
- Contextual menu: With any object, image, or sticky note selected, now you can click the More icon (•••) in the contextual menu to do more with your elements:
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Go deep: Now you can grab a deep link and share specific items in a freehand. Simply select a text object, image, or sticky note; click the More icon (•••) in the contextual menu; click Copy link; and then share the link URL. When the recipient opens the link, the freehand file will open to a zoomed-in view of your item.
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Export a section: Excited about a specific section of your freehand? Now you can snapshot that beauty and share it with your team! Select one or more items, click the More icon (•••) in the contextual menu; click Export to image; and then share the file as wanted.
- Copycat: Grab a copy of the element to paste elsewhere in the freehand or in a different freehand.
- Twinning: Duplicate the selected element/s.
- Trash it: If an element is missing the mark completely, you can always delete it.
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Origin stories: Now you can select any image in your freehand and download the file in its original source format.
November 11th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
It's a template free-for-all!
Ready for more-purposeful, more-effective online collaboration? Featuring curated templates designed by numerous industry leaders, the extensive new Freehand Template Gallery will help you reimagine how you brainstorm, plan, reflect, and align as a team—online in real time:
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Freehand Template Gallery: Whatever the need, start your Freehand sessions right with powerful templates created by design leaders like Xbox, American Express, Atlassian, UserTesting, AWS, and others. Kicking things off with one these proven frameworks makes it easy to learn from the best, adopt the template aspects you love, and adapt anything that's not a perfect fit!
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Custom Templates for Enterprises: If you're on an Enterprise team, now you can create your own templates and share them with the rest of the organization—in a dedicated, internal-access-only category in the Freehand Template Gallery.
Are you into details? Same with us. Read more about using the new Freehand templates in the Getting Started Guide for your version of InVision:
- Working with Freehand in InVision V7
- Using Freehand in InVision V6
Not sure which version you're using? Find out now.
October 27th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
Check out this handy new feature for those of you who belong to multiple InVision teams:
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"New Freehand" shortcut: When using the
freehand.newURL as a shortcut to create a new freehand, now you'll see the option to select a team—if you belong to more than one InVision team.
October 12th, 2020
What's fixed in Freehand?
Okay, maybe there is an easy fix for better collaboration—at least for InVision V6 Freehand users:
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Collaborator visibility: If you're on a Free, Starter, Pro, or Team plan for InVision V6, now when you share a freehand, the Share dialog includes a list of collaborators who have joined the freehand.
September 3rd, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
Freehand just got a bundle of exciting new features:
- Contextual menus: When working with the tools in Freehand, you'll notice the contextual menu for each tool has been markedly improved.
- Locking objects: Avoid collaboration mishaps by locking objects that should not be moved or edited. With the object selected, toggle the lock icon on (
) in the contextual menu. - Arrange to grid: Now you can grab multiple objects with the pointer tool and align them to a grid. Just select the objects and click the grid icon (
) in the top-right corner of object group.
- Reactions and voting: Show some love for your collaborators' work with one of seven animated emojis. As other people click a reaction, the running tally increases, making reactions a great way to vote on brainstorming sessions and potential design solutions.
August 3rd, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
Create a still life.
- Exporting to an image: You can now export an entire freehand as a still image—as a PNG file, specifically—by clicking the More menu icon (•••) and then clicking Export to image.
July 14th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
This will go down in history.
- Version history: With the new version history feature in Freehand, now you can collaborate with other editors in real time without the fear of making unintended changes or deleting content. Read this article for details and instructions on reverting to a previous version: Version history in Freehand documents
- Pan the canvas: There's a new way to pan your Freehand canvas! Click the Pan icon (
) in the lower-right corner of the canvas to trigger panning. You can also still pan by holding the Spacebar while you click and drag in any direction.
June 29th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
Why weight in line? Because you can! [Side note: We got Dad jokes for days!]
- Change your line weight: Now when you're working with the pencil tool (
), you can choose from one of 3 line weights in the secondary toolbar that appears at the top of the canvas.
With the pencil tool selected, you can also use shortcuts to change line weight: Thin: ⌥1, Medium: ⌥2, Thick: ⌥3
May 12th, 2020
What's new in Freehand?
In answer to one of our most popular feature requests, Sticky Notes are here!
- Easy to use: Simply click the Sticky Notes tool icon (
) and then drop a note anywhere on your freehand. To move a previously placed sticky note, select and drag it. - Friendly formatting: With a sticky note selected, click any of the formatting options that appear just below the URL bar:
- Switch to text box: Click the Sticky Notes dropdown (
) to convert the sticky note to a regular text box. - Color dropdown: Change the given sticky note's color.
- Note width: Select a previously placed sticky note and drag the selection box (on either side) left or right to adjust its width.
- Texting 101: Your text formatting options include bold, italic, and highlighted font as well as left, center, and right alignment.
- Switch to text box: Click the Sticky Notes dropdown (
April 2020
What's improved in Freehand?
Big improvements to Freehand tools during April make it even easier to draw, write, and collaborate in real-time with your colleagues online:
- Drawing attention: Use the improved shape tool to wow your fellow Freehand-ers with cleanly drawn squares, rectangles, circles, and lines.
- Gift wrapping: Alright, it may not be first on your birthday list, but we can all agree a great line of text can be a gift. The new auto text wrapping feature lets you wrap that little text gem by selecting and resizing the text box.
- Bulk alignment: Now you can align multiple objects in a freehand at once. Select the objects you want to align, and then click one of the three alignment icons that appear at the top of the screen.
- Get colorful: Now it's easier to change and fine-tune your color choices. Select an object to reveal options at the top of the screen, and then use the dropdown arrows to adjust its color or the opacity of its fill and outline.
April 5th, 2019
What's New
The following release notes apply strictly to Freehand in InVision V7, and they are not applicable to InVision V6:
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YourYou're correct: Freehand text in InVision V7 now features autocorrection. - Let's wrap it up: Working with text in Freehand for InVision V7 is better than ever:
- Now you can click and drag to draw a text bounding box, complete automatically wrapping text.
- When you create a text area by clicking to type, now the text will wrap at a predefined width.
- When hovering over a text area, you can now use the side handles to resize the area and change the wrapping of the text. It's worth noting that you can still drag the corner handles of a text area to change change the font size.
December 7th, 2018
What's New
- Shape Menu in Freehand: Now you can easily draw rectangles, circles, and straight lines.
Pro tip: To draw perfect squares, circles, and lines at 30° increments, hold the Shift key while drawing.
September 7th, 2018
What's New
- Choose your line opacity: To change the level of transparency of the lines you draw, you can now use the
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May 2nd, 2018
What's New
- Freehand sign in through Craft Manager: The sign-in flow for the Craft Freehand plugin with Sketch is now part of Craft Manager. This should streamline authentication and make it more intuitive.
Bug Fixes
- Share link unfurling: Share links for prototypes, boards, and Freehands are now unfurled correctly in Facebook and Twitter.
- Freehand sign out issue: InVision Private Cloud users are no longer signed out of their accounts when they click InVision icon in Freehand.
- Freehand save location: InVision Private Cloud users are now automatically prompted to save freehands inside their respective Private Cloud accounts instead of their personal accounts.
- Improved resizing for straight lines in Freehand: The behavior of the resizing handles used to resize relatively straight lines you've drawn has improved, making it easier to change the length of your line (or a thin shape) without changing the proportions of the line.
Pro tip: Hold Shift while drawing a new line for a perfect straight angle!
March 6th, 2018
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December 11th, 2017
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November 29th, 2017
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November 14th, 2017
What's New
- Freehand from Prototype: Users document from any of their prototypes to Liveshare in Project’s view.
November 10th, 2017
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October 30th, 2017
What's New
- Pencil color picker: Users are able to change the pencil color by clicking the ••• menu at the top left, then clicking Change my default color.
What's Fixed
October 24th, 2017
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October 9th, 2017
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October 2nd, 2017
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September 18th, 2017
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September 4th, 2017
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August 28th, 2017
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August 21st, 2017
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August 14th, 2017
What's New
- No more dimming images in present mode: We removed dimming on images in present mode so it's easier to see what you're presenting.
- Upload or drag and drop multiple images: You can upload or drag and drop multiple images at once!
- New keyboard shortcut: You can now use the “A” keyboard shortcut as an alternate for the selection tool. Ctrl-A/CMD-A selects all objects.
- Rename your Freehands: You can now rename your Freehands by clicking the Freehand name and typing to edit.
- InVision logo takes you back to your Projects Dashboard: Previously, the InVision logo wouldn't do anything. Now, the home action works for all environments.
- New keyboard shortcut: You can now use the “A” keyboard shortcut as an alternate for the selection tool. Ctrl-A/CMD-A selects all objects.
- Improved, simplified clear drawing options with pointer tool optimizations
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