The progress window's result was added with add_presentation_file, straight
into the session: not journaled and outside the command panic guard that
file.open runs under. The host now hands the loaded file to
Session::stage_loaded and runs the new internal command file.adopt {path,
token}, which shares file.open's tail (repaired-copy handling, damaged-media
report) and so is journaled and guarded. Without the staged copy (a replayed
journal, a stale token) file.adopt reads path like file.open. Reading still
happens on the background thread.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
design.browseTheme reads its path with io::read_file, and File › Info sizes the file with
io::file_len (which checks the read root), so commands_do_not_touch_the_file_system_themselves
passes. spell.rs is allow-listed beside recovery.rs: it touches only the app's own dictionary
folders. main's render_slide MCP tool refuses a `path` argument (#371), so the root tests
render to a file through call_app ui.render instead.
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file.export's slide range and transition.sound's keys parse as parameters, and the subcommands
main added since #303 have their own help page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
convert, run --save and run --export picked the format from the output
extension and fell back to native .deckcraft bytes for any extension
they didn't know, so out.odp, out.gif, out.svg and out.outline were
zips with exit status 0. They now fail before writing anything, with
the extension and the supported ones in the error.
A default export is 2 pixels per point. Without a resolution, Preview
treats those pixels as 72 dpi and the picture opens at twice the slide's
size. PNG pHYs and JPEG JFIF density now say scale times 72, so the
default is 144 dpi. Screenshots stay untagged.
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The renderer caps a picture at MAX_SIDE (16,000 px) by clipping, so an image export whose
slide × scale passed that (4× of a 4032 pt slide) came out cropped. file.export and file.render
now lower the scale to fit (cmd::file::image_scale). When exporting every slide and one file
can't be written, the error says which slides already were, and slide numbers are checked
before anything is written.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
File › New and the start screen offer Briefing, Lesson, Pitch, Field Notes,
Quarterly and Evening Talk. Each is a few slides of our own text on one of
our themes. file.new takes template, and file.templates lists them. Passing
a theme as well, or blank, is refused. PowerPoint's large gallery is still
open.
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load() ignored every failed media read, so a .deckcraft with a missing,
oversized or bad-CRC media member opened silently with empty pictures,
and the next Save overwrote the original with that loss.
load_checked() now lists each unreadable member (linked media saved
without bytes is not damage). file.open/openBytes return damagedMedia,
show a message, and open the deck as an untitled "(Repaired)" copy so
Save asks for a new name and the original file stays intact.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The Print page always laid notes pages and handouts out on portrait US
Letter. It now offers Letter, A4, Legal and A3 in portrait or landscape,
as PowerPoint's Print settings do, and the preview shows the chosen
page. file.export, app.print and the MCP export tool take the same
`paper` and `orientation` params; unknown values are an error. A notes
page keeps its slide within the top half of the page, so landscape
paper still leaves room for the notes. Full-page slides still print on
slide-shaped pages.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Opening from the file picker or the Backstage recent list read and parsed
the file on the UI thread, so a large PPTX froze the window. The read now
runs on a thread (engine: read_presentation_file / add_presentation_file),
and a modal shows the file name, elapsed time and Cancel; Escape cancels
too. A cancelled read is dropped when it finishes. Scripted opens (control,
MCP, CLI) and the web build stay synchronous.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
A deck that embeds a TrueType or OpenType face, including one wrapped as Embedded OpenType, now draws with that face and saves it back. MicroType Express subsets stay in the file and still draw in a stand-in.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
A read-only command, {slide?, x, y (slide units), scale?}: the slide is rendered and
the pixel at the point is returned as {color: "RRGGBB", alpha, x, y}. This is what the
Eyedropper takes, and what scripts and MCP use to read a colour off a slide. A point
outside the slide, a missing or non-numeric coordinate or an unknown slide is an error.
* Engine: file.info and PowerPoint-style print slide ranges (#76)
file.info reports what File › Info shows (name, path, format, unsaved
changes, slide and hidden-slide counts, sections, size on disk,
properties). file.export's PDF `slides` also takes the range typed in
PowerPoint's Print page ("1-3, 5", 1-based); bad or out-of-range text is
an error instead of a silent full export.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* UI: the File tab (Backstage) like PowerPoint's (#76)
File (first ribbon tab) or Alt+F opens a full-window view in place of the
ribbon, slides and status bar: a side menu (Back, Home, New, Open, Info,
Save, Save As, Print, Export, Close; Account and Options at the bottom)
and the chosen page. Esc or Back returns; Up/Down walk the side menu and
show each page as it gets the focus; Enter runs Save/Close/Options.
Laid out after PowerPoint for Windows as observed: 160-pt menu a step
darker than the page, outline icons, current page in the accent colour.
The start screen is now File › Home (as in PowerPoint), with only Home,
New and Open at the top and no Back. Pages call existing commands and
file helpers: file.new {theme} and the sample deck (Home, New); recent
files with search, Browse and Recover Unsaved (Open); file.info and
file.properties, Accessibility Checker, Revert (Info); file.save /
file.saveAs / file.export by type (Save, Save As); a PDF with the Print
page's slides, layout (full page, notes, handouts 1-9), hidden slides and
frames, opened in the system viewer or downloaded on the web, with a
page preview (Print, Ctrl+P); Create PDF, Create Handouts and Change File
Type (Export); appearance and About (Account); Preferences (Options).
Share (cloud) is left out.
Close and Ctrl+W now ask Save / Don't Save / Cancel about unsaved
changes instead of closing at once. The Export dialog shares
SlideApp::export_as with the Export page. New UI commands: app.backstage
{page}, app.closePresentation, app.print; ui.inspect reports the page.
New icons drawn in code: back, save as, account, recent, new file, open
folder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Docs: File tab (Backstage) in ui-parity, gaps, checklist and progress log (#76)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`deckcraft-cli help` and each subcommand's `--help` say what it does,
with a working example; `--help` never runs the subcommand. `describe`
spells out a command's parameters and what it acts on, `commands` lists
one command per line, and the MCP instructions say what format.* acts on.
[claude-opus-5-5] on behalf of hoblin
File ▸ Open's Outline filter accepts `.md`, but a `.md` was read with the
plain outline format (unindented line = slide, indent = bullet), so a
Markdown outline written the usual way kept `#` in its titles and made
every top-level list item a slide of its own.
`deckcraft_format::markdown_to_slides` reads ATX headings (`#`–`######`,
closing `#`s dropped) as slide titles, list items (`-`, `*`, `+`, `1.`,
`1)`) as bullets nested by their indentation, and other lines under a
heading as body paragraphs. A `.md` without headings is still read as a
plain outline, so existing indented `.md` outlines open as before; `.txt`
is unchanged. Opening a `.md` and dropping one on the window
(`slide.fromOutline {markdown: true}`) use it. Both readers now share the
slide builder.
Tests: the outline from the issue (2 slides, nested bullets), numbered and
`*`/`+` lists with text under a heading, `slide.fromOutline` with
`markdown`, plain `.txt`/`.md` outlines unchanged, and heading / list-item
edge cases (not-a-heading forms, closing hashes, Unicode, long digit runs).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Saving with a .potx or .ppsx name wrote a byte-identical .pptx: the
main part was always presentationml.presentation.main+xml, because
format_for_path folded all three extensions into "pptx". It now keeps
potx/ppsx, and deckcraft_pptx::export_as picks the template or
slideshow content type.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
There was no way to turn a presentation into an animated GIF. file.export now writes one: format
`gif` (or a .gif path), one frame per slide drawn by the slide renderer and shown for
secondsPerSlide, encoded with the `image` crate's GIF encoder (already a dependency, no new
crates) with a 256-colour palette per frame: exact when a slide has 256 colours or fewer,
NeuQuant otherwise. Slides are composited onto white.
Options: width (small 640, medium 960 (default), large 1280, extraLarge 1920, or 16-3840 px; the
height follows the slide's aspect ratio, no side over 3840), secondsPerSlide (0.1-600, default 5,
written in GIF hundredths), loop (forever by default, or once: no NETSCAPE2.0 block), slides (a
list of indices, in play order) and includeHidden (hidden slides are skipped by default).
Out-of-range or wrongly typed values, NaN and infinities are BadParams errors, never panics; at
most 500 frames and 200 million pixels in total, checked before anything is rendered.
- Engine: crates/engine/src/gif_export.rs (options, frame list, size, encoder);
cmd::file::gif_bytes, save_bytes("gif"), format_for_path(".gif").
- UI: the Export… dialog (Command palette; the app has no File menu yet) gets "Animated GIF (.gif)" with Size, Seconds per slide, From/To slide,
Loop forever and Include hidden slides; an invalid range or value keeps the dialog open with a
message. The web build downloads the bytes (image/gif).
- CLI: convert IN OUT.gif, run --export OUT.gif --export-params JSON; usage lists the format and
options.
- MCP: the export tool lists gif and width/secondsPerSlide/loop (slides and includeHidden now
apply to PDF and GIF).
- Docs: file-format parity GIF row, gaps (video export remains), parity checklist row M -> P
(P2 breadth 36% -> 37%, overall 79%), control protocol, MCP, README, ROADMAP progress log.
Transitions and build animations are not animated in the GIF (tracked with video export).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
file.export with an explicit format outside png, jpeg, jpg, pdf, pptx, potx,
ppsx, deckcraft, outline and txt fell through to the native deckcraft zip, so a
request for "docx" reported success and wrote a deckcraft archive under that
name. It now returns an error and writes nothing. A format inferred from the
file extension behaves as before.
Brandon Thomas