Present and share

deck.html is a static page. Open it in any browser, put it on a web server, or send it as one file.

Keyboard

Key	Action
→ PageDown Space	Next slide
← PageUp	Previous slide
Home / End	First / last slide
N	Speaker notes panel
P	Presenter window: notes, next slide, timer
S	Static mode (no animations)
F	Fullscreen
E	Back to the editor (only when deckforge edit serves the deck)

• Links to a slide: deck.html#3 or deck.html#slide-<id>.
• Reduced motion: if the system asks for reduced motion, slides appear in their final state.
• No JavaScript: every slide stays readable.

Print or save as PDF

Print from the browser. You get one 13.333 × 7.5 in page per slide, without the controls. For other paper sizes or margins, each slide is scaled down to fit. Images on slides you never opened are still printed.

Export to PowerPoint

Click PowerPoint in the editor's top bar, or run:

deckforge export my-talk            # writes my-talk/deck.pptx

The export measures each slide as the browser lays it out and rebuilds it as native PowerPoint objects:

In the deck	In PowerPoint
Headlines, text, lists, links	Editable text boxes with the same fonts, sizes, colours and line spacing
Cards, pills, panels, borders, dividers	Rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses and lines
Images and image overlays	Pictures, cropped like on the slide
Icons, arrowheads, gradients	Vector (SVG) pictures
Speaker notes	Speaker notes

Hidden slides are left out. The editor saves deck.pptx next to deck.yaml and downloads it. The CLI needs Playwright, see deckforge export.

Check the result

Slides are exported in their final state, without the staged reveals. PowerPoint uses the fonts installed on the computer that opens the file: when a theme font is missing, the export uses the fallback the browser showed and lists it. See the limitations.

Runtime modes

The --runtime option sets how deck.html loads the viewer's script and stylesheet:

Mode	Output	Network
local (default)	deck.html + deckforge/ folder (+ assets/)	none
inline	One self-contained deck.html, images included	none
cdn	deck.html that loads the runtime from jsDelivr (tagged releases only)	jsDelivr

deckforge build my-talk --runtime inline --out ~/Desktop/talk.html

Share one file

Use inline to send a deck by email or chat. It opens offline from any folder.

Preview while you write

deckforge serve my-talk

This command serves the deck read-only on 127.0.0.1. It rebuilds and reloads the page whenever deck.yaml changes.