DeckCraft v0.8.0

DeckCraft is a free, open-source presentation application designed as an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. Written entirely in Rust, it allows users to create slide decks, edit PowerPoint files, add animations, and present slideshows across desktop operating systems and modern web browsers.

Developed as part of the ArtCraft collection of creative applications, DeckCraft combines a graphical presentation editor with command-line tools and AI agent integration. This makes it interesting not only for people creating presentations manually but also for developers who want to automate slide creation.

Although DeckCraft already offers an extensive set of presentation features, it remains in early development. Users looking for a dependable replacement for PowerPoint should consider its development status and verify that their existing presentations work correctly.

Features

Presentation Creation and Themes

DeckCraft provides tools for building presentations with slide masters, layouts, placeholders, and customizable slide dimensions. Users can organize slides into sections, add notes and comments, and apply themes with coordinated color and font schemes.

These features make it suitable for creating business presentations, educational materials, and visual slide decks without relying on proprietary presentation software.

Shapes and Drawing Tools

The application includes more than 150 preset shapes, connectors, curves, freeform drawing, and shape-merging operations. Users can customize outlines, gradients, picture fills, shadows, glow effects, and other visual properties.

These tools provide flexibility when creating diagrams, illustrations, flowcharts, and other visual elements directly within a presentation.

Text, Tables, and Charts

DeckCraft supports in-place text editing, paragraph formatting, bullets, numbering, columns, hyperlinks, and vertical text. It also includes tables, charts, and basic SmartArt functionality.

These capabilities cover many common presentation tasks, although compatibility with complex formatting imported from Microsoft PowerPoint should be tested before using the application for important documents.

Animations and Slide Transitions

Users can add slide transitions, including Morph, alongside entrance, emphasis, and exit animations. Motion paths and paragraph-based animation builds are also supported.

DeckCraft includes a full-screen slideshow mode, presenter view, presentation timing tools, and media playback. This makes it useful for presentations that require more than static slides.

PowerPoint File Compatibility

DeckCraft can open and save PowerPoint PPTX files. It also supports exporting presentations to PDF, PNG, JPEG, and outline formats.

PDF exports include options for slides, notes pages, and handouts with selectable text. An AutoRecover feature helps preserve unsaved work.

However, file-format support does not guarantee perfect compatibility with every PowerPoint feature. Complex presentations should be checked after importing and exporting.

Command-Line and AI Automation

One of DeckCraft's most distinctive features is its command-driven architecture. The application exposes more than 200 commands that can be used through its CLI, a JSON control channel, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

This enables scripts and compatible AI agents to create slides, modify presentation content, and automate repetitive tasks. Developers can also use the CLI to render sample presentations and perform operations without manually interacting with the graphical interface.

For users who regularly generate reports, product presentations, or other structured slide decks, this automation capability could be particularly valuable.

Cross-Platform Availability

DeckCraft is designed for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and modern web browsers. Prebuilt packages are available for supported platforms, including Windows installers, macOS disk images, Linux AppImages, Debian packages, RPM packages, and browser-based builds.

Its Rust-based implementation and cross-platform distribution make it an interesting option for users who want presentation software beyond the Microsoft ecosystem.

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DeckCraft v0.8.0 Release Notes: What's Changed Opus: validate the header in Decoder::from_head (#425) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #442 xtask: assets audit no longer panics on Unicode names and reads real paths from git (#424) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #443 Info: keep a property draft when another field or the side menu is clicked (#422) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #445 Engine: moving the selection to another text body settles the composition (#421) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #446 Format scientific number formats (0.00E+00) in chart labels (#419) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #448 UI: notes, alt text and rename drafts no longer carry over to another document (#413) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #450 Pptx: keep the math namespace equations inherit from the slide root or a wrapper (#412) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #451 MCP: do not resend a command whose reply was lost (#409) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #453 Engine: a command that fails after editing puts the presentation back (#405) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #454 Table: split and cell fill stay inside the table (#400) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #455 Bitstream: reject bad NAL length widths, check NAL endpoints and signed Exp-Golomb limits (#397) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #456 Matroska: stop following chapter and tag nesting past 32 levels (#396) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #457 AV1: reject tile groups that repeat, skip or reorder tiles (#395) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #458 Slide show: Honeycomb's hexagons cover the whole slide again (#420) by @albayazid in #460 Copy and Cut buttons and menus put the text on the system clipboard (#431) by @Zetenypapp in #463 Media: preserve video frames and EOF across seeks by @MMexicann in #587 Fix keyboard navigation when Presenter View has focus by @lambertoo in #707 Slide show: click-triggered animations, per-slide state and hit testing by @nagasakimark in #713 pptx: write linked pictures with r:link so PowerPoint resolves external images by @midasmatterhorn in #728 Colour menus: an Eyedropper that takes a colour from the slide (#367) by @Silvertree2010 in #436 Slide: leading tabs in a new slide's body set the outline level (#370) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #459 CLI: convert and run refuse output formats DeckCraft can't write (#715) by @switch87 in #716 PPTX: .potx and .ppsx declare a template and slide show main part (#210) by @justinjohn0306 in #212 Animations: nine PowerPoint exit effects import as themselves (#147) by @justinjohn0306 in #222 SmartArt: text is laid out on its text rectangle (dsp:txXfrm), not in columns by @pierrevbc in #242 fix: DeckCraft upstream issue #104 by @FabPei in #306 macOS: end the process in on_exit so closing the window doesn't crash by @marcoarnulfo in #308 Open: a password-protected presentation says so, and open errors show on the start screen by @marcoarnulfo in #348 Fonts: the font scan leaves out faces with no outline tables by @dotCooCoo in #351 Bump quick-xml to 0.41 (RUSTSEC-2026-0194, RUSTSEC-2026-0195) by @natocool2 in #356 Fonts: a lookup finds an installed family whichever thread loads it first by @LloydNicholson in #80 Command palette: one Export… entry that opens the dialog, no path-only duplicate (#79) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #82 PPTX: animation rewind survives save and reopen (#77) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #83 Export: an unknown format is an error instead of a deckcraft file by @mikl0s in #95 Slides: going to a slide that does not exist is an error by @mikl0s in #96 Commands: an invalid shape id is an error instead of the selection by @mikl0s in #97 docs(readme): percent-encode middle dot in platforms badge URL by @dylanmtaylor in #98 PPTX import: a transition without spd is 0.5 s, not the effect's default (#117) by @alexanderalber in #149 Issue #106: zooming keeps the point under the pointer by @LloydNicholson in #156 Charts: value axes start above zero when the values sit high, as in Office by @LloydNicholson in #157 Ribbon: transition and animation tiles follow the dark theme (#159) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #160 Windows: compile DX12 shaders with FXC by @itrycodinganditsbad in #176 CLI: --help prints usage and unknown render flags are rejected (#163) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #179 Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V pastes objects that carry no text (Fixes #182) by @Claudio911015 in #189 Slide Size: choose Portrait or Landscape (#198) by @justinjohn0306 in #201 Home: a Selection Pane button that works with nothing selected (#132) by @justinjohn0306 in #205 PPTX: a lone guide keeps the name its preset uses, adj1 or adj (#214) by @justinjohn0306 in #216 Read Markdown outlines as Markdown (#211) by @LloydNicholson in #218 Text: draw shrink-on-overflow at the scale the file was saved with by @xmaks82 in #226 Canvas: right click selects the shape under the pointer by @pierrevbc in #244 Title bar: Export button next to Save by @pierrevbc in #246 Text: exact line spacing ends at the last line's descent by @xmaks82 in #249 Text: line spacing reduction comes off the percentage, not the spacing by @xmaks82 in #253 Comments: threads and resolved state survive a .pptx round trip (#70) by @albayazid in #280 ui: admit stock macOS CJK faces as interface fallbacks (#101) by @Momentum96 in #376 render: 3-D light rigs and materials, per-side extrusion shading by @NikitkaRa in #597 render: 3-D contours by @NikitkaRa in #600 Animations: check effect options and accept direction words by @NikitkaRa in #620 Shapes: star4/star5 text rectangles as the standard defines them by @NikitkaRa in #642 Charts: percent axes for 100% stacked; source-linked axis number formats by @NikitkaRa in #659 Startup: fall back to Wayland when DISPLAY names no X server by @NikitkaRa in #661 Render: don't lay out table cell text that lands off the slide by @NikitkaRa in #663 PPTX: keep table styles the file defines when no table uses them by @NikitkaRa in #694 PPTX: normalize literal line ends in XML so runs stay put on save by @NikitkaRa in #701 Undo: cap the history by memory as well as by steps by @NikitkaRa in #704 PPTX: write Color Pulse emphasis as a colour change, not a scale by @NikitkaRa in #705 MCP tools refuse an argument that is not in their schema (#371) by @NikitkaRa in #375 Metafile: clip EMF and WMF drawing to rectangle regions by @NikitkaRa in #437 Edit: copies remap media, connector ends, animation targets and triggers (#406) by @NikitkaRa in #475 Render: budget shape path-gradient work on dense outlines (#404) by @NikitkaRa in #476 Pptx: budget chart points, chart XML size, inflate work and VML lookups (#401) by @NikitkaRa in #480 Charts: pie and doughnut data labels use the number format (#324) by @NikitkaRa in #486 Designer: layout ideas that rearrange the current slide (#314) by @NikitkaRa in #489 Fonts: find fonts where Linux and Flatpak keep them; add and rescan commands (#277) by @NikitkaRa in #491 Format Shape: line compound, cap, join, arrows and sizes; lock aspect ratio by @NikitkaRa in #500 Engine: seeded editor soak tests; tiny charts no longer blank the slide by @NikitkaRa in #502 Text: set text transparency from Text Fill (#32) by @NikitkaRa in #504 Transitions: choose a transition sound and play it in the show by @NikitkaRa in #505 UI: seeded whole-window soak with memory and timing bounds by @NikitkaRa in #507 UI: WordArt Transform gallery applies a text warp by @NikitkaRa in #511 Shapes: Edit Points — drag, add and delete a shape's vertices by @NikitkaRa in #514 Format: report damaged embedded media and open such files as a repaired copy by @NikitkaRa in #526 Morph: the same text moves and resizes instead of cross-fading by @NikitkaRa in #541 Pictures: Remove Background with a classical matte by @NikitkaRa in #550 Animations: add 34 PowerPoint motion path presets by @NikitkaRa in #551 Text: Bullets and Numbering dialog by @NikitkaRa in #553 Pptx: round-trip comments, links, shows, groups and inherited placeholders by @NikitkaRa in #554 Edit: Paste Special (destination theme, keep source, picture, text only) by @NikitkaRa in #558 Pptx: round-trip text effects, layout, fills, bevels and connectors by @NikitkaRa in #562 Performance baseline: deckcraft-cli bench and cargo xtask bench by @NikitkaRa in #564 Make PDF export ~2.8× faster with byte-identical output by @NikitkaRa in #566 Metafile: draw EMF+ only pictures by @NikitkaRa in #574 PPTX: round-trip 3-D models and animation bounce end by @NikitkaRa in #578 PPTX corpus: themes, masters, effects and links; keep text Mouse Over actions by @NikitkaRa in #589 PPTX: round-trip chart trendlines by @NikitkaRa in #590 Render 3-D extrusions: sides under turned cameras (3-D slice 1) by @NikitkaRa in #595 Insert: a gallery of Lucide icons as stroked shapes by @NikitkaRa in #625 Render: cap dash count so a tiny dash on a huge shape can't crash on open by @NikitkaRa in #639 UI: Size and Position dialog sets geometry in one step by @NikitkaRa in #641 Shapes: chevron text rectangle per presetShapeDefinitions by @NikitkaRa in #643 Charts: draw axis titles by @NikitkaRa in #657 Review: previous and next comment by @NikitkaRa in #672 Export: image exports keep the whole slide; partial failures say what was written by @NikitkaRa in #681 Media: damaged audio no longer hangs or panics by @NikitkaRa in #696 Pptx: read and write embedded fonts by @NikitkaRa in #439 Parsers: check hostile numeric fields before arithmetic (#426) by @NikitkaRa in #467 Anim: group animations by sequence in one pass (#410) by @NikitkaRa in #472 Text: bidi levels for language runs in linear time (#403) by @NikitkaRa in #477 Render: cap RGBA conversion and bound the failed-image cache (#402) by @NikitkaRa in #478 Recovery: unique uids, per-instance ownership, keep snapshots until replaced (#390) by @NikitkaRa in #482 Print: choose paper size and orientation for notes and handouts by @NikitkaRa in #499 Format Shape: shadow, glow and reflection detail controls by @NikitkaRa in #503 Shapes: Edit Points — point types, Bézier handles, right-click menu by @NikitkaRa in #515 Transitions: built-in sounds, Stop Previous Sound and Loop Until Next by @NikitkaRa in #516 PPTX: owned corpus round-trip, keep notes-master header and footer by @NikitkaRa in #517 File: six original starter decks by @NikitkaRa in #593 Text: underline an IME composition in a table cell by @NikitkaRa in #618 UI: Photo Album dialog inserts pictures as slides by @NikitkaRa in #647 Format: repair degenerate slide sizes on load by @NikitkaRa in #665 Merge Shapes: text merges as its letters, so a picture can fill them by @NikitkaRa in #678 UI: Alt Text's decorative checkbox follows the selection by @NikitkaRa in #682 UI: Create New Theme Colors dialog edits the theme in one step by @NikitkaRa in #683 UI: Create New Theme Fonts dialog edits the theme in one step by @NikitkaRa in #687 Outline: lay out only the slides in view by @NikitkaRa in #695 Media: damaged MP4 sample tables no longer abort the app by @NikitkaRa in #699 Comments: browser-created comments and replies get a creation timestamp (#72) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #85 Slide show: media set to play in the click sequence starts on Next (#116) by @alexanderalber in #140 Slides: Ctrl+A in the slide pane selects every slide (#188) by @isaac-levine in #191 Animation Pane: advanced timeline with draggable bars by @NikitkaRa in #495 Home: Replace Fonts dialog and font.replace command by @NikitkaRa in #512 Design: Browse for Themes from a .thmx, .pptx or .potx file by @NikitkaRa in #530 Table: borders, cell margins and cell text alignment by @NikitkaRa in #540 Pictures: Picture Styles gallery and Picture Border by @NikitkaRa in #545 Pictures: Recolor gallery and Set Transparent Color by @NikitkaRa in #547 UI: View › New Window opens a second window by @NikitkaRa in #560 UI: sections in the Slide Sorter by @NikitkaRa in #586 Text: shrink on overflow gives up at once when even 10% overflows by @NikitkaRa in #651 UI: Edit Photo Album reflows the album in one step by @NikitkaRa in #658 Insert: Action Settings dialog and shape.action by @NikitkaRa in #557 SmartArt: Text Pane, add and remove shapes, promote and demote by @NikitkaRa in #596 SmartArt: 15 layouts, SmartArt Styles and Change Colors by @NikitkaRa in #606 SmartArt: shrink text to fit, picture layouts, 3-D styles and more colours by @NikitkaRa in #610 SmartArt: node pictures from the data model, Brick Scene camera, four more layouts by @NikitkaRa in #613 SmartArt: six more layouts, clear Venn labels, read back older Picture Accent Process files by @NikitkaRa in #617 SmartArt: organisation charts with assistants, segmented/multidirectional cycles, cycle matrix, segmented pyramid, pie by @NikitkaRa in #621 SmartArt: Name and Title org chart, closer Half Circle, ten more layouts, convert to/from text and shapes by @NikitkaRa in #623 SmartArt: Convert to SmartArt gallery on Home; Convert to Text keeps the text size by @NikitkaRa in #627 SmartArt: layout gallery thumbnails and hover preview by @NikitkaRa in #634 UI: Date and Time dialog inserts a format in one step by @NikitkaRa in #668 UI: Hyperlink dialog follows the selection by @NikitkaRa in #689 SmartArt: write the outline to .pptx as a diagram and read it back from the data model by @NikitkaRa in #601 Notes and Presenter View: long notes scroll, presenter controls show (#221) by @justinjohn0306 in #224 Palette: skip commands that need a value by @NikitkaRa in #440 Show: a laser pointer that leaves no ink by @NikitkaRa in #441 Media: keep playback with the document and the clip (#415) by @NikitkaRa in #483 Show: render the next slide in the background while the current one rests (#240) by @NikitkaRa in #490 Pictures: Artistic Effects — apply, change, remove and keep in PPTX by @NikitkaRa in #518 Format: bound total embedded media when opening a .deckcraft by @NikitkaRa in #528 PPTX: keep add-in tags on the presentation, slides and shapes by @NikitkaRa in #531 Pptx: round-trip tables, charts, animation, media, sections and masters by @NikitkaRa in #533 PPTX: keep custom XML, the sensitivity label and custom properties by @NikitkaRa in #535 Add the Handout Master view (stacked on #533) by @NikitkaRa in #572 Add the Notes Master view (stacked on #572 / #533) by @NikitkaRa in #573 Notes pages and PDF handouts follow their masters (stacked on #573) by @NikitkaRa in #577 Notes Master slide preview; master header/footer text keeps its formatting (stacked on #577) by @NikitkaRa in #580 PDF master header/footer text wraps and keeps mixed formatting (stacked on #580) by @NikitkaRa in #583 Notes Page view draws master text wrapped (stacked on #583) by @NikitkaRa in #592 Show: See All Slides and zoom by @NikitkaRa in #649 Presenter view: pause and reset the timer, and notes size by @NikitkaRa in #656 Show: play a custom show by @NikitkaRa in #660 Show: show the slide number while typing it by @NikitkaRa in #664 Show: a first animation set to With/After Previous plays when the slide appears by @NikitkaRa in #671 View: Zoom dialog applies a percent or Fit by @NikitkaRa in #675 Show: Show Media Controls hides the playback bar by @NikitkaRa in #679 Export: a PNG or JPEG slide records 144 dpi at the default 2× size by @NikitkaRa in #684 PPTX: keep the notes master's own placeholders and colour map on save by @NikitkaRa in #685 UI: Design Effects applies a theme effect scheme by @NikitkaRa in #698 UI: Slide Master Preserve and Title or Footers placeholders by @NikitkaRa in #703 Text: honour spcFirstLastPara (space before the first paragraph) by @xmaks82 in #254 CLI: say that render --slide counts from 0 (#359) by @NikitkaRa in #361 AV1: reject duplicate film-grain scaling points; a failed job still publishes (#394) by @NikitkaRa in #481 Video: check the whole picture store against a memory budget (#398) by @NikitkaRa in #484 PPTX: read Office 2016 charts (waterfall, funnel, treemap…) and keep them by @NikitkaRa in #532 UI: customizable Quick Access Toolbar by @NikitkaRa in #563 Metafile: EMF+ arcs, convex clip paths, wrapped strings, nested metafiles by @NikitkaRa in #588 Charts: histograms, Pareto and box and whisker; Office 2016 charts save as themselves by @NikitkaRa in #591 Charts: multi-level treemaps and sunbursts; inclusive box quartiles by @NikitkaRa in #594 Charts: keep and draw region map charts by @NikitkaRa in #598 Charts: polar radar, stock high-low lines and up/down bars, combo sample by @NikitkaRa in #602 Render: draw chart trendlines by @NikitkaRa in #603 Metafile: EMF+ cardinal curves and region fills by @NikitkaRa in #633 Metafile: EMF+ Clear, and the EMF+ record coverage written down by @NikitkaRa in #635 Charts: bar widths, column/bar point fills, smoothed lines and chart text colour as the file sets them by @NikitkaRa in #638 Charts: category axis orientation; horizontal bars list the first category at the bottom by @NikitkaRa in #640 Charts: scatter and bubble charts get a value x axis by @NikitkaRa in #662 Charts: logarithmic value axes by @NikitkaRa in #669 Charts: a chart frame with no width no longer panics by @NikitkaRa in #690 UI: Trim Media dialog follows the selection by @NikitkaRa in #691 Title bar: on macOS the window buttons sit centred in it (#71) by @marcoarnulfo in #223 Charts: draw waterfall, funnel, treemap and sunburst layouts by @NikitkaRa in #537 Metafile: EMF+ images, text, gradient brushes and clipping by @NikitkaRa in #582 Charts: value-axis minor gridlines by @NikitkaRa in #666 CLI: render-transition refuses --t values that would share one file name (#423) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #444 H.264: bound frame_num gap work and reject gaps the SPS forbids (#427) by @NikitkaRa in #465 Control server: bound connections, line length, queue and socket timeouts (#418) by @NikitkaRa in #471 Table: inserting and deleting rows and columns keeps merges consistent (#408) by @NikitkaRa in #473 Design: Variants gallery with four colour variations of the theme by @NikitkaRa in #542 Tables: Draw Table pencil and Table Eraser by @NikitkaRa in #544 Review: spelling with Hunspell dictionaries, suggestions, Change and Ignore All by @NikitkaRa in #609 Spelling: squiggles while typing, Add to Dictionary, per-run languages, compounds by @NikitkaRa in #615 Spelling: squiggles in table cells and speaker notes; UI-thread checking on the web by @NikitkaRa in #626 PPTX: shape text anchors at the top when the file gives no anchor; write ctr for centred shapes by @NikitkaRa in #654 PDF: map each glyph to its shaping cluster's text in ToUnicode (#164) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #178 Text: AutoCorrect options, case rules and your own entries by @NikitkaRa in #521 Spelling: notes right-click menu, Review > Language (Do Not Check Spelling), repeated words by @NikitkaRa in #632 Mark the current transition effect option (#365) by @NikitkaRa in #369 Media: a failed or stalled audio output hands the clock back to wall time (#417) by @NikitkaRa in #468 Web: keep a picked file on the document and slide that asked for it by @NikitkaRa in #479 Draw: Ink to Shape converts pen strokes into shapes by @NikitkaRa in #539 UI: preview slide animations on the editor canvas by @NikitkaRa in #571 Startup: survive damaged settings, font folders, recovery folders and small texture limits by @NikitkaRa in #644 Canvas: a trackpad swipe turns the page by @NikitkaRa in #648 UI: keep every texture within the GPU max texture side by @NikitkaRa in #652 Show: presenter view keeps a portrait Next slide inside its column by @NikitkaRa in #655 Canvas: a two-finger twist rotates the selection by @NikitkaRa in #674 Clipboard: rich text and pictures for Pages and Keynote by @NikitkaRa in #702 A tabbed slide body is an outline, and --help exits (#360) by @NikitkaRa in #368 UI: Format Shape fill transparency follows the selection by @NikitkaRa in #697 Shapes: smooth a rectangle's corners into a squircle (#286) by @NikitkaRa in #492 Format Shape: picture or texture fill options by @NikitkaRa in #506 UI: WordArt adjust handles drag a text warp by @NikitkaRa in #519 Review: compare with a revised copy and accept its slides by @NikitkaRa in #525 UI: Grid Options sets spacing, snap and the on-screen grid by @NikitkaRa in #536 Text: Find and Replace across slides, tables and notes by @NikitkaRa in #556 View: indent and tab markers on the ruler by @NikitkaRa in #567 Text: Tabs dialog and the ruler's tab selector (stacked on #567) by @NikitkaRa in #569 UI: Font dialog sets character formatting in one step by @NikitkaRa in #630 UI: Paragraph dialog sets alignment, indents and spacing by @NikitkaRa in #637 Review: Thesaurus pane with a built-in English word list by @NikitkaRa in #549 View: movable drawing guides saved with the presentation by @NikitkaRa in #559 Charts: error bars by @NikitkaRa in #673 Draw: pen pressure scales ink width by @NikitkaRa in #611 Format: never save a .deckcraft that cannot be reopened over a NaN by @NikitkaRa in #670 Notes: speaker notes show their formatting and keep it when edited by @Mathiasko in #168 Pictures: Change Picture replaces the selected picture (#115) by @justinjohn0306 in #204 Tables: caret in the edited cell, click-to-place, drag borders to resize by @pierrevbc in #230 Canvas: drag the frame of a text box being edited to move it by @pierrevbc in #243 fix(cli): render refuses an unknown option instead of writing it as a file (#235) by @RCShoemaker in #258 Start screen: a missing Recent file is marked, its error shows, and entries can be removed (#172) by @albayazid in #291 deckcraft-cli help explains the CLI to an agent by @hoblin in #303 Review: the Language dialog marks the selected text with the language you pick by @marcoarnulfo in #345 File: save through a unique, exclusively created temporary file (#391) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #466 UI: keep editor slides on the Retina pixel grid by @NikitkaRa in #522 UI: Format Background picture fill sets transparency and tiling by @NikitkaRa in #692 Export: animated GIF of the deck (Export… dialog, CLI, MCP) (#171) by @Mathiasko in #177 Text: typing goes on after Tab in a text box (#78) by @alexanderalber in #139 Charts: a missing varyColors varies single-series bar colours by point (#143) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #151 MCP: confine file access with --automation-read-root and --automation-write-root by @isaac-levine in #247 Text: the caret shows on dark slides and in empty placeholders by @xc4pr in #321 Morph: align an outline morph once per transition, not every frame by @alexanderalber in #67 Export: PNG images (all slides) in the browser downloads every slide (#64) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #87 Paste: Ctrl+V pastes an image-only clipboard as a picture (#53) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #88 Morph: text boxes without a partner fade in place instead of moving (#119) by @alexanderalber in #136 Morph: a picture cropped differently on the next slide morphs its crop (#118) by @alexanderalber in #137 Charts: a single-series chart without an explicit title shows the series name as its automatic title (#142) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #150 PPTX: SmartArt and OLE objects we can't draw keep their parts on save (#203) by @justinjohn0306 in #209 Bidi: auto-detect RTL paragraph direction when typing Kurdish, Arabic and Hebrew by @Hevarh1 in #169 Render: an unfilled shape's glow follows its line by @xmaks82 in #225 UI: open presentations in the background with a progress window (#350) by @NikitkaRa in #488 Format Shape: 3-D Format and 3-D Rotation controls by @NikitkaRa in #508 Pictures: compress pictures to a target resolution by @NikitkaRa in #513 Insert: Summary, Section and Slide Zoom with Return to Zoom by @NikitkaRa in #520 Charts: keep the embedded workbook when a chart is saved unchanged (#335) by @NikitkaRa in #355 Slides: reuse slides from another presentation by @NikitkaRa in #509 Model: an exhausted id space refuses growth instead of duplicating ids (#407) by @albayazid in #438 media: check the ASF object walk's arithmetic so hostile sizes cannot panic by @midasmatterhorn in #748 Preferences: Cancel, Esc and the close button undo the dialog's changes (#752) by @switch87 in #757 control: a request that timed out while queued is abandoned, never run late (#719) by @midasmatterhorn in #758 text: a bare normAutofit draws at 100% and an edit stores the fitted scale (#724) by @midasmatterhorn in #759 Render: a cropped picture keeps its resolution (Intersect no longer blurs it) by @switch87 in #768 Preferences: Interface size applies when the slider is let go by @switch87 in #769 Text: show gray list markers before typing by @hajdukste in #772 Grow table merges to include merged areas they overlap by @Silvertree2010 in #773 Slide: a new slide's body goes into the layout's content placeholder by @switch87 in #734 Fonts: falling back to the default face no longer deadlocks by @xmaks82 in #738 Add an editor screenshot to AppStream metadata by @IanHollow in #746 MCP: validate reply IDs and bounded response frames (#718) by @MMexicann in #747 media: walk ID3 tag chains iteratively so crafted files cannot overflow the stack by @midasmatterhorn in #749 Text: anchorCtr centres the drawn text block - right-aligned text stayed glued to the box edge (#736) by @albayazid in #760 ci: add comfortable runtime limits to unbounded jobs by @skylartaylor in #776 Use the shared PDF writer and report font embedding failures by @skylartaylor in #708 Reject shape ids beyond u32 in shape.connect, sites and points by @Silvertree2010 in #847 Keep slide.duplicate copies next to their source in the section by @Silvertree2010 in #822 ci: add shared Windows ARM64 and nix checks by @dylanmtaylor in #854 Keep leading '-', '*' and '•' text when importing outlines by @Silvertree2010 in #797 Don't paste HTML text as bold when sets font-weight:normal by @Silvertree2010 in #798 Format: .txt and .md outline includes table cell text (#814) by @albayazid in #816 Clamp huge index in table.insertRowBelow/insertColumnRight by @Silvertree2010 in #866 Close the control port on the first line that isn't a request by @skylartaylor in #939 PPTX: preserve separate click steps in trigger sequences by @MMexicann in #849 Contributors: add Marco Arnulfo by @marcoarnulfo in #857 Make edit.cut a no-op when only a text caret is set by @Silvertree2010 in #920 Fix add overflow panic in table.columnWidth for a huge column index by @Silvertree2010 in #922 New Contributors @albayazid made their first contribution in #460 @Zetenypapp made their first contribution in #463 @MMexicann made their first contribution in #587 @lambertoo made their first contribution in #707 @nagasakimark made their first contribution in #713 @midasmatterhorn made their first contribution in #728 @Silvertree2010 made their first contribution in #436 @justinjohn0306 made their first contribution in #212 @pierrevbc made their first contribution in #242 @FabPei made their first contribution in #306 @marcoarnulfo made their first contribution in #308 @dotCooCoo made their first contribution in #351 @natocool2 made their first contribution in #356 @mikl0s made their first contribution in #95 @itrycodinganditsbad made their first contribution in #176 @Claudio911015 made their first contribution in #189 @xmaks82 made their first contribution in #226 @Momentum96 made their first contribution in #376 @NikitkaRa made their first contribution in #597 @isaac-levine made their first contribution in #191 @Mathiasko made their first contribution in #168 @RCShoemaker made their first contribution in #258 @hoblin made their first contribution in #303 @xc4pr made their first contribution in #321 @Hevarh1 made their first contribution in #169 @hajdukste made their first contribution in #772 @IanHollow made their first contribution in #746 @skylartaylor made their first contribution in #776 Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

Performance and Compatibility

DeckCraft is built with Rust and supports native desktop applications as well as browser-based use. Its architecture also separates presentation commands from the graphical interface, enabling headless automation and scripted workflows.

However, programming language alone does not establish real-world performance. Responsiveness will depend on the presentation's complexity, media content, hardware, and implementation maturity.

The most important limitation is that DeckCraft remains in early development. Although its feature list is extensive, its developers are still working toward the first alpha release. Some features may behave differently from PowerPoint, and compatibility with complicated existing presentations may be incomplete.

Users should test important PPTX files, animations, embedded media, and exported documents before adopting DeckCraft for professional presentations.

System Requirements

DeckCraft supports the following platforms:

• Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit x86 systems, plus ARM64 devices where supported by the available builds.

• macOS: Apple Silicon and Intel Macs through a universal application build.

• Linux: x86-64 and ARM64 packages, depending on the distribution format.

• FreeBSD: x86-64 builds.

• Web: Modern browsers that support its browser-based application.

Running a prebuilt package is generally the simplest installation method. Building from source requires Rust development tooling, Cargo, Git, and the project's other build dependencies.

Linux developers compiling the application also need the appropriate ALSA development headers for slideshow audio support. The exact requirements depend on the operating system and whether users install a prebuilt package or compile the project themselves.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Free and open-source presentation software.

• Supports opening and saving PowerPoint PPTX files.

• Includes themes, layouts, shapes, charts, tables, and animations.

• Offers slideshow and presenter-view functionality.

• Exports presentations to PDF and image formats.

• Provides CLI commands and MCP integration for AI-assisted automation.

• Supports Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and web browsers.

• Available under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.

Cons

• Still in early development, with potential stability issues.

• PowerPoint compatibility may be incomplete for complex presentations.

• Some advanced presentation features may not behave identically to Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Users may encounter rendering differences when importing existing files.

• Building from source requires development tools and additional dependencies.

How to Install

Option 1: Download a Prebuilt Package

1. Visit the official DeckCraft GitHub repository.

2. Open the Releases section.

3. Download the package for your operating system and processor architecture.

4. Install or extract the downloaded package according to its format.

5. Launch DeckCraft and create a new presentation or open an existing PPTX file.

On Linux, available formats include AppImage, Flatpak, DEB, RPM, and compressed tar archives. Choose the format that best matches your distribution and installation preferences.

Option 2: Build from Source

Users who prefer compiling the application can build it with Rust and Cargo.

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/storytold/deckcraft

Enter the project directory:

cd deckcraft

Then run the documented command to build the CLI and render the included sample presentations:

cargo run --release -p deckcraft-cli -- render --sample --all --scale 1 out/

This command is useful for verifying the rendering workflow, but it is not the same as launching the graphical presentation editor.

Additional dependencies may be required, particularly on Linux. Consult the repository's build documentation for instructions specific to your platform.

Final Verdict

DeckCraft is an ambitious open-source PowerPoint alternative with an unusually broad feature set for a project still in early development. Its combination of presentation editing, PPTX support, animations, cross-platform distribution, and AI-driven automation makes it appealing to developers, open-source enthusiasts, and users looking for alternatives to proprietary office software.

The command-line interface and MCP integration are particularly noteworthy because they allow presentations to be generated and modified programmatically. This could make DeckCraft useful for automated reports and other workflows where presentations are produced repeatedly.

Its main weakness is maturity. A large feature list does not guarantee complete compatibility, reliability, or a polished experience across every platform. Users who depend on complex PowerPoint files should test their workflows before making the switch.

Overall, DeckCraft is worth watching and experimenting with, especially for users interested in open-source presentation tools and AI automation. However, its early development status makes it difficult to recommend as a complete replacement for Microsoft PowerPoint in critical production workflows.

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Date Added:
2026-10-18T14:07:24.474Z
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