Odox Deck
Edit OpenDocument slides
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Open an OpenDocument presentation and see each slide as it was designed; move a shape, resize it or change its text, and save the deck back as it was.
Odox Deck opens an OpenDocument presentation, lets you change what is on its slides, and saves it back as the deck it was.
It is a lightweight editor and not a presentation application. A deck opens reading; Edit mode, from the Edit menu or Ctrl+E, lets you pick a shape and drag it where it should be, resize it by a corner, click its text and change it where it sits, make that text bold, italic, underlined or struck through, take any of it back with Undo, and save. F5 starts a slideshow, and Ctrl+F finds text in the slides and in the notes. You cannot add a slide or a shape, apply other formatting, or change a master page: for that you have an office suite. Nothing is written until you press Save, and then only the file you opened or the one you named; no temporary file is left beside it and no backup is kept. The one preference the application keeps, whether a document opens ready to edit, goes into a settings file only when you change it. There is no recent-documents list and no cache.
It draws each slide at the size the document sets. Behind the slide's own text and pictures is the master page: the ground it fills and the decorations a template puts on every slide, which is most of what makes a deck look like the template it was built from. The shapes are drawn from the geometry the document states rather than approximated into rectangles, which covers paths, custom shapes with their own formulas, connectors routed between the shapes they join, and the labels a shape carries. The speaker's notes sit underneath the slide and a list of slides beside it.
How well it draws is measured rather than asserted. Every slide of the templates in its corpus is rendered by Odox Deck and by LibreOffice from the same file, and the two are compared colour by colour, because a renderer is the kind of thing that passes every test and still looks wrong.
It makes no network connection of any kind. There is no server behind it, no account to create, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no third-party service. Its store privacy declaration is Data Not Collected, because the developer collects nothing and has nowhere to put it. The full statement is at https://excelano.com/legal/#odox and, because the source is open, every line of it is verifiable.
It is one of three. Odox Text reads text documents and Odox Grid reads spreadsheets, and all three are built on one library that reads the format and one renderer that draws it, so a paragraph looks the same in a document, a spreadsheet cell and a slide.
What an editor has to do and most do not is keep the whole document. Every element, attribute and piece of whitespace in your file survives being read, including the ones Odox has never heard of, and what you did not touch is written back as it was read, element for element: a moved shape is four attributes changed, in the unit the document wrote them in, and nothing else. A test that every document in the corpus comes back the same runs on every change. Before a save, what is about to be written is read back and compared with the document in the window, and a difference refuses the save rather than writing a document that would not come back the same.
Written in Rust, free, and open source under the MIT licence, at https://github.com/excelano/odox.
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Present your deck: F5 starts a slideshow and Shift+F5 starts it at the slide in view. Change the text in a slide's shapes where it sits, with bold, italic, underline and strikethrough. Find text across slides and notes with Ctrl+F. Undo returns to the slide an edit was made on.
The developer, Excelano LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Excelano LLC
- Size
- 7.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Excelano LLC