DeckPort feature guide
How the deck is built, and the three ways to control what goes where.
Slide order
- Name
By frame name- Type
- default
- Description
Natural sort, so "Slide 2" comes before "Slide 10" and "Intro" sorts with the letters. Name frames with numbers for a predictable deck.
- Name
By canvas position- Type
- rows
- Description
Frames are grouped into rows from top to bottom. A frame belongs to the current row when its top edge is within a third of the row's first frame height, then rows read left to right. Lay slides out in a grid and this reads them like a page.
- Name
By layer order- Type
- layers panel
- Description
The order in the layers panel, top to bottom.
Slide size and mixed aspect ratios
The slide size comes from the first frame's aspect ratio at the standard PowerPoint width. Frames with another ratio are letterboxed: the image is centered on the slide without stretching, and the plugin shows a one-line warning when ratios differ by more than 2 percent. Portrait and 4:3 decks work the same way.
What the PPTX contains
A genuine Office Open XML package: presentation, slide master, layout, theme, and one slide per frame holding a full-bleed picture. That is why fonts, effects and gradients never break: there is nothing to substitute. It also means text is not editable in PowerPoint. The plugin is built for fidelity; edit in Figma and re-export in seconds.
Image quality and file size
1x, 2x and 3x set the render scale. PNG slides (the default) are lossless. With JPEG slides (Pro) each frame is re-encoded at the quality you choose, 50 to 95, which typically cuts a photo-heavy deck to a third of the size. Transparent areas become white in JPEG.
Speaker notes (Pro)
Put a text layer named notes or Speaker notes inside a frame. Its text becomes that slide's presenter notes, visible in PowerPoint's notes pane and Keynote's presenter display. The layer is hidden while the slide image renders and restored afterwards, so it never appears on the slide.
Hyperlinks (Pro)
Two kinds of links survive the export, each as an invisible clickable area over the exact bounds of the source layer:
- Slide jumps. A prototype interaction of type "Navigate to" pointing at another exported frame becomes a jump to that slide. Jumps to frames that are not part of the export are dropped.
- URL links. A text layer with a hyperlink, or a prototype "Open URL" action, becomes an external link.
Links on hidden layers are ignored, and links on rotated layers use their bounding box.
What a deck cannot contain
Animations, video, embedded fonts and editable text. The first two need hosted media; the last two contradict the image-per-slide approach that keeps the design intact. If you need editable text, build the deck's text in PowerPoint and use DeckPort for the visual slides.