RixSlides is the presentation editor inside Rixoffice, and it is built as a byte-fidelity .pptx editor: it opens your existing PowerPoint files, renders them on a high-fidelity canvas, and saves them back as real .pptx (or legacy .ppt) without rebuilding the file from scratch. You use it when you want to keep a deck exactly as it was — masters, fonts, animations and all — while still getting full editing power, AI deck generation and PDF or PNG export. Everything runs locally on your desktop, so a large deck works just as well on a plane as it does in the office.
Open your first presentation
- Launch Rixoffice and click New Slide for a blank deck, or pick an existing .pptx from the recents on the Home screen.
- You can also drag a .pptx file onto the workspace — it opens in its own tab.
- Look at the left rail: slide thumbnails render immediately, grouped by any sections the file already contains.
- Click any element on the canvas — a text box, a shape, a chart — and its editing controls appear in the sidebar.
- Press Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on Mac) at any time. The file stays .pptx.
There is no import step and no conversion dialog. What you see on the canvas is your file.
The workspace: canvas, thumbnails and sections
The center of RixSlides is the slide canvas, rendered with a high-fidelity engine (Konva) instead of a web-page approximation of PowerPoint. Preset shape geometries, gradients, tables, charts, pictures and media are drawn the way a presentation app should draw them, so what you edit is what your audience sees.
Around the canvas:
- The thumbnail rail on the left shows every slide. Click to jump, drag to reorder.
- Sections group slides the way PowerPoint sections do, which keeps a 100-slide deck navigable.
- The comments pane collects review notes attached to slides.
- Find & replace searches text across the whole deck, so renaming a product name takes one pass.
- Paste options let you keep source formatting or adopt the destination theme when you paste content between decks.
Snap guides and arrange tools
As you drag elements, snap guides appear when edges and centers align, so tidy layouts happen naturally rather than by eye alone. The arrange tools cover the rest: group and ungroup objects, align to the slide or to each other, flip horizontally or vertically, and rotate by drag or by exact degrees. The format brush copies the styling of one element and paints it onto another — fastest way to make ten callout boxes match the first one.
What you can edit on a slide
| Element | What you can do |
|---|---|
| Text boxes | Edit content, fonts, sizes, bullets and spacing |
| Shapes | Pick from a large prstGeom preset geometry gallery |
| Tables | Change structure, apply styles, edit any cell |
| Charts | Adjust type and data with ChartTypeDialog and ChartDataDialog |
| SmartArt | Edit diagram text and layout |
| WordArt | Restyle decorative display text |
| Pictures | Crop, cut out backgrounds, set opacity, replace |
| Audio and video | Insert, position and play media on the slide |
| 3D models | Place and rotate three-dimensional objects |
| Equations and fields | Insert math plus dynamic fields such as slide number or datetime |
Every one of these is a native .pptx part. Nothing is flattened into images behind your back.
Save with byte fidelity
Byte fidelity means the parts of the file you do not touch stay exactly as they were. Your colleague's carefully built master, the animation timings from the design agency, the embedded fonts — all of it survives a round trip through RixSlides.
- Ctrl+S saves in place, keeping the current format.
- Save As switches between .pptx and legacy .ppt without converting by hand.
- A working copy is kept as you type, so a crash never costs a slide.
Present and share
Press F5 to start the slideshow in SlideShowView. On a second screen you get PresenterView: your private dashboard with the current slide, the next slide and your notes, while AudienceView shows only the slide to the room. Custom shows let you prepare two versions of the same deck — a 10-minute pitch and a 30-minute walkthrough — inside one file, and show ink lets you draw on slides live.
When the deck is ready, export it: File, Export as PDF produces a share-ready handout, and PNG export gives you per-slide images for websites, chat messages and documentation.
What to explore next
- AI deck generation to build a first draft from a single prompt.
- Text and shapes editing for the everyday editing moves.
- Export PDF and PNG for the full sharing workflow.
- Rixoffice vs PowerPoint if you are weighing the switch.