Orbit Slides

Orbit Slides is Quazzar’s presentation editor. It opens from the Orbit category in the app dock. Every deck is a JSON document of slides; you can round-trip with PDF and, on Orbit Pro, PPTX.

Layouts

Every slide picks one of seven built-in layouts:

Layout	Use for
Title	Opening slide of a deck
Title + content	Heading plus a body block
Two columns	Side-by-side text or media
Comparison	Two labelled columns with a header row
Section header	A divider slide that marks a new section
Image caption	A full-bleed image with a caption strip
Blank	A free canvas — drop anything, anywhere

Pick a layout from the slide thumbnail sidebar. Existing content is remapped to the new layout’s slots.

Canvas editor with inline text

Slides renders on a canvas; text blocks, images, shapes, and charts are all first-class objects you can move, resize, and rotate.

Click any text block to edit inline. Markdown syntax is parsed live (bold, italic, lists, code spans).
Drag corner handles to resize. Hold Shift to preserve aspect ratio.
Double-click an image to swap it for a new upload.

Themes

Built-in themes

Three themes ship by default: Graphite (dark), Canvas (light), Ocean (blue accent). Apply from Design -> Theme. The theme sets fonts, heading scale, body scale, and accent colour.

Custom themes (Orbit Pro)

Custom themes are gated behind Orbit Pro. Design -> New theme opens a panel where you pick:

Heading font family, weight, letter spacing
Body font family, weight
Accent colour, background colour
Shape style (rounded / sharp)
Shadow intensity

Saved custom themes appear under My themes and can be applied to any deck.

Speaker notes

Each slide has a speaker notes strip below the canvas. Notes are searchable in the deck outline and visible in Present mode on the presenter monitor.

Click View -> Speaker notes to toggle the strip.
Markdown formatting is rendered in the strip and in the presenter view.

Present mode

Click Present (or press F5) to enter full-screen presentation. Features:

Current slide on the primary display.
Next slide, speaker notes, and elapsed timer on the secondary display (if available).
Arrow / spacebar / Page Down to advance; Escape to exit.
Laser-pointer mode with L, highlighter with H.

PDF export

File -> Export -> PDF renders each slide to a page and saves the deck as a PDF. Supported on every plan — PDF export is not gated.

PPTX export is an Orbit Pro feature.

Share -> Create link produces a read-only presentation URL. Viewers see the deck in a lightweight runner with arrow-key navigation but no edit tools.

Community plan: 3 total share links across Orbit apps.
Orbit Pro: unlimited.

Collaboration (Orbit Pro)

Append ?collab=1 to a deck URL to enable CRDT collaboration. Peers see cursors and co-edit slides in real time. Gated behind Orbit Pro; Community falls back to single-user editing.

Docs to Slides

Open a document in Orbit Docs, then File -> Export to Slides. Headings become slide titles and the content between them becomes the slide body. The deck opens in Slides ready to theme.

Mobile layout

Phone viewports collapse the slide thumbnails into a drawer and resize the canvas to fit the width. Present mode works in landscape on phones.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`N`	New slide
`Ctrl+D` / `Cmd+D`	Duplicate current slide
`F5`	Enter Present mode
`Esc`	Exit Present mode
`Shift + drag corner`	Resize preserving aspect ratio
`Ctrl+Z` / `Cmd+Z`	Undo (one slide’s worth per step)

Troubleshooting

Custom theme save returns HTTP 402

Custom themes are gated behind Orbit Pro. Pick a built-in theme, or upgrade from the returned dialog.

PPTX export missing

PPTX is Orbit Pro. PDF export is available on every plan.

Present mode opens the wrong monitor

Browsers open full-screen on the monitor that currently hosts the window. Drag the editor to the monitor you want to present from before pressing F5.

Orbit Docs — convert documents to decks
Orbit Pro — tier matrix