The Export dialog's GIF choice runs through SlideApp::export_as (desktop and web download),
.gif is a writable output extension for convert/run, and the CLI help pages describe GIF output
and --export-params. A file.export `slides` range string ("1-3,5") works for GIF as for PDF.
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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.
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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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DeckCraft forces X11 whenever DISPLAY is set. A stale DISPLAY (an ended ssh -X session, or
Xwayland turned off) made start-up fail with "failed to open display" while a Wayland
compositor was running. A local DISPLAY whose /tmp/.X11-unix socket is missing now starts on
Wayland when WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set; remote displays and live servers keep X11. Forcing Wayland
without a compositor keeps X11, and with no display at all the error says so plainly.
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Times open, per-slide render, save, the PPTX round trip and PDF export, and
reports peak memory; xtask builds the CLI in release, runs it on the sample
and any given decks, and compares with docs/benchmarks/baseline.json.
deckcraft_pptx::import_theme reads the theme of a .thmx (its main document is
a theme part) or of a presentation's first master, with the media its format
scheme uses. design.browseTheme {path | name, data} applies it to the current
master as one undo step, giving the theme's pictures ids of this deck.
Design tab: Browse for Themes… next to the theme gallery and in the Slide
Master Themes menu; the desktop picker offers Office Theme (.thmx) and
presentations. Ribbon small buttons expose their label to accessibility (same
change as #512). Parity row Browse themes M → D.
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Every transition and Effect Option was built in PowerPoint (COM), exported as
video and compared frame by frame with DeckCraft at the same progress
(mean abs diff over 150 variants 35.7 -> 15.0, 0-255).
- anim: transition_frame(kind, option, t, aspect) with measured curves
(smoothstep fades, ease-in-out moves, Cover/Uncover/Pan curves), directions
and option meanings, soft edges as per-corner opacity, 3-D effects as
perspective-projected cards, Dynamic Content moving slide contents over
cross-fading backgrounds (Source::OldBack/NewBack/OldContent/NewContent);
layer_mesh subdivides perspective quads so textures stay straight.
- New options: Page Curl Single, Glitter Hexagons, Shred In/Out, Zoom and
Rotate; PowerPoint-style Effect Options labels.
- render: composite_transition (CPU twin of the show), render_slide_part,
render_transition; deckcraft-cli render-transition FILE --slide N --t T.
- show: per-vertex opacity meshes, slide parts rendered once per transition.
- pptx: PowerPoint's elements and defaults (p:strips diagonal wipes, p14:warp
and p:newsflash for Zoom, p:zoom for Shape In/Out, glitter pattern, shred
rectangle/dir, prstTrans invX per preset, pageCurlSingle, defaults for
randomBar/doors/window/pan/zoom); PowerPoint reopens DeckCraft's files with
the same effects.
- Tests: measured curves, probes of which slide shows where at t, option
coverage, per-frame triangle budget, PowerPoint XML and defaults round trip.
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--all names files slide-01.png onward, so --slide 8 on an 8-slide deck looked like an off-by-one. The index stays 0-based, matching slide.go, and the error now gives the range and the file names.
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animation.remove's remark belongs to its `ids` option, so describe shows
it there instead of as a note on the whole command. A command with an
all-optional set of parameters is suggested as a bare id.
[claude-opus-5-5] on behalf of hoblin
A --cmd without a value now asks for COMMAND[=PARAMS]. The params field
says how describe reads it, table.split's row and col are optional as
the command reads them, and the MCP instructions name only shape
commands for `ids`.
[claude-opus-5-5] on behalf of hoblin
Same fix as storytold/gridcraft#117 (storytold/gridcraft#316): eframe drops
the window while AppKit's run loop still runs, AccessKit restores the
content view's class and AppKit's Touch Bar KVO observer throws on the
next display cycle. on_exit now ends the process on macOS once the
preferences are saved.
`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
`deckcraft-cli render` took any argument it didn't recognise as the output
path, so `render deck.pptx --help` rendered the slide into a file named
`--help`, and a mistyped option was silently ignored. An argument starting
with `-` that render doesn't know is now an error naming it.
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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).
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wgpu's default DX12 compiler (Auto) loads whichever dxcompiler.dll the DLL
search path finds. DeckCraft ships none, and without a matching dxil.dll the
unsigned-DXIL warning fails wgpu's indirect-validation pipeline, the device
is lost and the app exits before the first frame. Pin the compiler to FXC,
which is part of Windows; WGPU_DX12_COMPILER still overrides it.
Fixes#153
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Three causes, each making links look like they "don't save":
- With the caret at a word boundary (end of text, empty paragraph),
insert.hyperlink formatted an empty range and changed nothing. It now
inserts the address (or the slide's title, or `text`) as linked text, as
PowerPoint does. Typing right after a link no longer extends it.
- The slide show ignored hyperlinks and shape actions. A click on one now
follows it (ShowState::follow): slides, next/previous/first/last, Last
Slide Viewed, End Show, and URLs; the pointer turns into a hand over links.
- The desktop app was built without eframe's `links` feature, so
ctx.open_url did nothing natively (also the ribbon's app page link).
Enabled as in DesignCraft, EffectCraft and PrintCraft.
Saving was fine: links round-trip through .deckcraft and .pptx.
generated with Claude Code
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eframe's default wgpu instance enables PRIMARY | GL on Windows. Creating
the OpenGL backend can crash inside AMD's atio6axx.dll before the window
appears, so the app exits silently at launch. When WGPU_BACKEND is not
set, the Windows instance now enables only DirectX 12; an explicit
WGPU_BACKEND is still honoured. macOS, Linux and web are unchanged.
Same fix as storytold/designcraft#168 and storytold/filmcraft#179.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LyVbT6Vv4BwWZ4hY8973qD
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The desktop app installed no logger, so every log::warn!/log::error! in
the workspace was discarded: the crash guard's panic report, a failed
crash-recovery save, PowerPoint parts skipped on import, audio output
problems. A launch from a desktop menu has no terminal either, so there
was nothing to attach to a bug report.
apps/deckcraft/src/logging.rs (no new dependency):
- standard error plus <settings dir>/logs/deckcraft.log (beside ui.json
and prefs.json); each launch rotates the previous log to
deckcraft.1.log and .2.log, so the log of a run that crashed survives
the next start; the file is capped at 16 MiB
- records logged before the settings directory is known are buffered
(bounded) and written once the file is attached
- default levels: info for deckcraft*, warn for everything else;
RUST_LOG replaces them with env_logger-style directives
- never panics: an unusable directory or a failed write leaves standard
error as the only sink; a poisoned lock is tolerated
- a record holds the lock for one write of an already formatted line
The cpal error callback runs on the realtime audio thread (on ALSA in a
loop while the device stays broken), so it no longer logs: it keeps the
first error without blocking, and the UI thread logs it when the stream
stops.
The logger is installed first in main (before the engine's panic hook)
and the file is opened after argument parsing (--version leaves no
file). The settings directory moves out of prefs_path into config_dir.
The start-up eprintln!s (sample, files that fail to open, control
server) now go through the logger. Documented in README.md (Getting
started > Logs).
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- crates/media: probe (duration, rate/channels, size/fps; WMA/WMV recognised), audio decode to
f32 PCM (MP3, AAC M4A/ADTS, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, Vorbis via symphonia; Opus with our
decoder in Ogg/WebM/MKV), video decode (MP4/MOV/WebM/MKV) with YUV->RGBA, poster frames,
trim/fade/volume, Player mixer + per-voice clock (device-clocked or wall-clocked), VideoFeed.
- Codec crates ported from FilmCraft: bitstream, h264, hevc, vp9, av1, isobmff, matroska, ogg, opus.
- insert.audio/insert.video probe and store duration/size and a poster frame; unplayable media
is embedded with a warning. New media.play/pause/toggle/stop/seek/info/posterFrame.
- UI: MediaHost (cpal output injected by the desktop app), control bar under media, video frames
on canvas and in the show; autoplay, click to play, loop, rewind, across slides, hide, full screen.
- Tests with in-code WAV/AIFF and CC0 self-generated fixtures (make.sh, ATTRIBUTION.md rows).
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- apps/slidecraft-web: SlideApp in the browser via eframe's web runner (trunk; WebGPU with
WebGL2 fallback). Opens the sample deck (?blank for empty, ?show to present, ?webgl to force
WebGL2). Open/Insert use the browser file picker through Services::open_async + inbox;
Save/Export download; dropped files are read asynchronously.
- ui-egui: native-only synchronous drop handling (wasm uses the inbox), real clock on wasm
(js_sys::Date::now), About shows build commit/date when SLIDECRAFT_BUILD_SHA/DATE are set.
- .github/workflows/release.yml (push to `release` / workflow_dispatch): macOS universal
signed+notarized dmg, Windows x64/x86 signed msi + portable zip, Linux AppImage/deb/rpm/tar.gz
(x86_64, aarch64), Flatpak bundle, FreeBSD tar.gz (vmactions), web zip; draft GitHub Release
"SlideCraft v<version>" from [workspace.package] version. Same secret names as DesignCraft.
- freebsd.yml and packaging-lint.yml CI, ported from DesignCraft.
- packaging/: macOS (Info.plist, entitlements, cert import), Windows (WiX with new UpgradeCode,
.slidecraft ProgId, Open-with for pptx), Linux (.desktop, AppStream, MIME, nfpm, Flatpak),
FreeBSD and web scripts; shared setup in packaging/common.sh.
- apps/slidecraft/build.rs embeds icon + VERSIONINFO on Windows; slidecraft.icns/.ico generated
from the committed PNGs by packaging/icons.sh.
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