Bento Slides 1.2.6: open your PowerPoint decks in Bento

[nyblnet]

Open your PowerPoint decks in Bento

Go to bento.page/import, drop in a .pptx, and get back a .bento.html deck you can edit and present. The conversion runs in your browser, and your deck is never uploaded. Before you download, the page shows what came across exactly, what was approximated and what was left out. Tables and charts arrive as marked placeholders for now.

Inside a deck, Save as → Import PowerPoint… opens the same page in a new tab. If you prefer a terminal, the same conversion runs as node convert/cli.mjs deck.pptx.

Sharing you can rely on

• Undo no longer reverses Stop sharing, Reset access or Duplicate as new deck. Undoing an earlier edit used to bring the old sharing settings back with it. If you have used Reset access on a shared deck, update and then reset access once more to be sure.
• A view-only or audience copy stays view-only however it is opened, including when it is dropped onto a deck that is already open.
• Pictures a collaborator adds now show up in a read-only live copy. Before, they appeared as blank boxes.
• A copy you edited offline now catches up every tab opened later, not just the ones that were open when it reconnected.

Decks written by hand or by AI

A deck that left out something the format expects, such as the theme or the page size, used to hang on the loading screen. It now opens, with the missing parts filled in from the editor's defaults and everything you wrote kept.

This release also includes security fixes, so please update. Open the About dialog in any deck and the update will be offered. It is signed like every release, and your file is rewritten in place with the same content.

[Hermholtz]

Thanks a lot!

Please also find some time to improve editing experience for the boring slide decks full of bulleted text etc. #546 #547 and new comments in #368

There are other issues that I didn't have time to report, such as:

• it's impossible to get past a code block (with backticks) if it's the last paragraph in the text box (you need to focus off and back on), you need to enter dummy characters and then select them and then clear formatting
• it's impossible to drag a shape (text box, rectangle etc.) if it's not the topmost in z-order, despite the fact that I was able to select it.
  That's off the top of my head.

The boring editing features need some love, thanks in advance!

[nyblnet]

Thanks for all of these, and for your patience. In 1.2.8, out now: the top bar no longer shifts during undo (#546), the caret shows at the start of a line (#547), Tab / Shift+Tab indent and outdent bullets (#368), and typing after inline code at the end of a line is plain text again. On dragging a covered shape: we're keeping the PowerPoint behaviour (a press selects the top shape); Alt-click reaches the one underneath.

[Hermholtz]

Thank you! Bullets will need bugfixing, but what you did is a great improvement.

On dragging a covered shape: we're keeping the PowerPoint behaviour (a press selects the top shape); Alt-click reaches the one underneath.
And if I Alt-click select the one below, allow then it to be dragged (I did not check the behavior in 1.2.8).