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Slides

Presentations with masters, layouts and a presenter view.

ExperimentBalane Office is an experiment: we’re testing how far an office suite can be built with today’s tools. You’re very welcome to try it – but it is not finished software. About the experiment

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Slides is built for decks with masters, layouts and themes, with a slide show and presenter view. PowerPoint and ODP files open and save back.

What the app does today

Designing slides

  • Masters, layouts and themes, with a master view for editing
  • 34 shapes with adjustment handles, connectors, tables and images
  • Smart guides, grid and your own guides
  • Crop images on the slide, all installed fonts
  • Selection pane: name, hide, lock and reorder objects

Motion

  • Transitions including Morph
  • Entrance, emphasis and exit animations, also by paragraph
  • Rehearse timings per slide

Presenting

  • Slide show with PowerPoint keys, laser pointer, pen and highlighter
  • Presenter view with next slide, notes and timer
  • Links to web pages and other slides

Output

  • PPTX and ODP with round-trip tests
  • PDF as slides, notes pages or handouts; PNG
  • Find and replace across all slides and notes
  • SmartArt from PowerPoint comes in as a group of shapes

On iPhone and iPad

  • Laid out like Keynote: slide strip at the bottom on iPhone, slide list and format column on iPad
  • Tap, drag, double-tap and long-press; two fingers zoom or rotate an object
  • Slide show with swipes, own presenter view on iPad in portrait

Checked with automated screenshots at iPhone and iPad sizes, not yet on real devices.

File formats

  • PPTX
  • ODP
  • PDF
  • PNG
  • .bslides

How it connects

  • Shows data published by Sheets, Reports and Forms as a table or chart and refreshes it when you choose.
  • The same in every app: command search with ⌘K, German and English, automatic saving on your device.

Status

Version 0.2.0

  • macOSComing soon
  • WindowsComing soon
  • iOSComing soon
  • AndroidComing soon
  • WebOpen

Not finished software: expect bugs and changes to the file format. Please don’t keep important data only in the apps, and back up regularly.

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