What changes in Decktype.

Text and layout

Choose left, center, right or justified paragraph alignment in the native and web editors. Text overflow diagnostics use the same shaped text as the renderer. Review proposed text splits, rewrites and compatible layout variants before applying them, with changes grouped into one undo step.

Plan and reuse a presentation

Prepare and edit a story outline before creating the slides. Choose layouts for each message and create a separate presentation from the reviewed outline.

Capture reusable .deckrecipe packages with typed variables and protected blocks. Personalize a copy while keeping the source intact, and review changes that touch protected content or existing manual edits.

Update figures from CSV

Associate CSV columns explicitly with a supported text list, data block, chart or table. Review added and removed rows, changed values, and protected edits before accepting an update. The presentation stores a snapshot of the data and can be reopened without the original CSV file.

Collaboration and exports

Cloud uploads, reconnections, concurrent edits and recovered copies preserve more of the local editing history. Unchanged text fields no longer create invisible undo steps. Development sessions stay separate from production login.

PowerPoint exports now preserve editable tables, give notes their own theme, keep chart axis labels inside their frames, and fit different source slide sizes to the presentation canvas without stretching them.

Agent tools and compatibility

The packaged CLI and skill are verified together. Managed tool installation checks integrity, preserves customized files and can recover interrupted installs. Capability reports describe the commands and formats actually present.

The .deck format is now 0.22 and the template schema 0.13. Older readers can open supported content but may lose newer fields when saving. Justification falls back to left alignment in older readers; reusable recipe packages require a reader that supports them.

Known limits

PowerPoint and Keynote can substitute fonts and render weight or line breaks differently from Decktype. A successful story-assistant request with a live provider remains unverified in the release QA; manual story editing and the review workflow are covered. Human time-saving measurements are deferred, so this release makes no measured productivity claim.

Icons

The whole Lucide library ships with the app: 1799 icons, plus the 258 former names that keep resolving to whatever they were renamed to. Insert one from the new toolbar tool, from Insertion, or from the inspector.

Search understands what you type. fusee finds the rocket, croissance finds the trending arrow, and the English tags of the library work too.

An icon on a template-bound slide can be renamed, recoloured and restroked without breaking the link. When it is fed by a slot, the editor writes the slot, so an agent regenerating the deck keeps your choice.

Selection

Sweep the canvas and everything the rectangle touches is selected, groups included. Select All is in the Edit menu.

A multi-selection made by shift-clicking now moves and resizes as one block, under a single frame with eight handles. It used to move only the element under the pointer.

Local images

deck image add mon.deck logo.png puts an image into a bundle, and deck image list says what is already in there. No more editing the zip by hand. An SVG is rasterized through the rsvg-convert of your system when it is installed, and the report tells you it did and with which tool.

A template image can now be fed by a slot or by a field of a repeated item, which is what a logo wall or a screenshot grid needs.

For agents

deck icons list returns names and tags, and deck validate suggests the closest name when it meets one it does not know.

Also fixed

The Connect an agent item of the menu bar did nothing. Duplicating a group gave the copies the group of their source. An asset named with no Latin character lost its extension and vanished from the PowerPoint export. Moving several template-bound elements together sent ten times more collaboration traffic than it needed to.

Format

The .deck format moves to 0.18.0 and the template file schema to 0.12.0. Six properties become overridable on a template-bound element. A deck written by 1.2.0 opens in an older Decktype, but an icon whose name that build does not know paints as a placeholder.