storytold / deckcraft

DeckCraft 
 Presentations and slide shows; an open-source, modern presentation and slide designer, built in pure Rust. 
 Build decks with themes, layouts, shapes, pictures, tables, charts, transitions and animations,
 open and save .pptx presentation files, and present them full screen. Native on macOS, Windows, Linux
 and FreeBSD, and in the browser. Every button is also a command that the CLI and AI agents
 (through MCP) can drive.
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> [!NOTE]
> **ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life.** Painters, photographers,
> filmmakers, illustrators, designers, animators, hobbyists, and people who picked up a pencil
> last week. If you make things, you're one of us. **Come say hi on Discord.**
 What works ·
 Getting started ·
 Agents, CLI and MCP ·
 Roadmap ·
 Downloads ·
 The Crafting Apps ·
 License 
## What works today
DeckCraft is in alpha, heading for beta (see the roadmap).
Today it can:
- **Make decks**: slide masters and eleven layouts with placeholders that inherit position and
 formatting, eight original themes with colour and font schemes, sections, notes, comments,
 headers and footers, custom slide sizes.
- **Draw**: 150+ preset shapes with adjust handles, connectors that stay glued to shapes, freeform,
 curve and scribble tools, merge shapes (union, combine, fragment, intersect, subtract), gradient,
 picture and pattern fills, outlines with dashes and arrowheads, shadows, glow, soft edges and
 reflections.
- **Write**: in-place text editing with full font and paragraph formatting, bullets and numbering,
 columns, autofit, vertical text, fields and hyperlinks.
- **Add content**: pictures with crop and corrections, tables with styles, charts, SmartArt basics,
 audio and video (MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, Ogg, Opus, WAV, AIFF; H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1).
- **Present**: transitions (including Morph), entrance/emphasis/exit and motion-path animations,
 by-paragraph builds, full-screen slide show, presenter view, pen, rehearse timings, media playback.
- **Exchange files**: open and save .pptx presentations, export PDF (slides, notes pages, handouts
 with selectable text), PNG/JPEG, an animated GIF of the deck and outlines. Unsaved work is kept by AutoRecover.
- **Automate**: 200+ commands with undo, all scriptable from the CLI, a JSON control channel and an
 MCP server for AI agents.
 Shape Format contextual tab and selection handles 
 Format Shape pane: gradient type, direction and stops 
 Slide Sorter with each slide's transition 
 Dark mode, with a native chart 
 The built-in sample deck, rendered by deckcraft-cli render --sample --all 
## Getting started
PDF export uses the shared `craft-pdf` writer with import features disabled. See
`crates/pdf/README.md` for the dependency and validation requirements.
 [code] 
On Linux, the build also needs the ALSA headers for slide-show sound: `alsa-lib-devel` on Fedora,
`libasound2-dev` on Debian and Ubuntu, `alsa-lib` on Arch. Withou