Present and Export

Present your slide deck fullscreen in the browser, or download it as a PDF or PowerPoint file.

Presenting fullscreen

Click Present in the preview toolbar at the bottom of the editor. The deck opens fullscreen. Use the arrow keys to change slides and press Esc when you are done.

Downloading as PDF

1. Open the Export menu

   Click Export in the editor navbar.

2. Click Download as PDF

   Select Download as PDF to open the export settings.

3. Choose watermark settings

   On a paid plan, turn on Hide Built-With Badge if you do not want the Magic Patterns watermark in the PDF.

4. Download

   Click Export. The download starts after Magic Patterns finishes rendering the slides, which usually takes a few seconds per slide.

Each PDF page is rendered at 1280 × 720 pixels on the server.

Downloading as PowerPoint

1. Open the Export menu

   Click Export in the editor navbar.

2. Click Download as PowerPoint

   Select Download as PowerPoint to open the export settings.

3. Choose watermark settings

   On a paid plan, turn on Hide Built-With Badge if you do not want the Magic Patterns watermark on the slides.

4. Download

   Click Download PowerPoint. The .pptx file downloads once Magic Patterns finishes rendering the slides.

Every slide becomes real PowerPoint objects — text boxes you can retype, shapes you can recolour, and pictures for the parts PowerPoint has no equivalent for (icons, gradients, photos, charts). Speaker notes come across into the notes pane.

About fonts

A .pptx file references fonts by name but does not carry them, so a deck set in Inter or Playfair would fall back to whatever the machine opening it happens to have. The export uses basic fonts instead: every font is mapped to its closest match among the faces that ship with both Windows and macOS (Arial for sans-serif, Georgia for serif, Courier New for monospace). Text stays fully editable, and line breaks can shift slightly because the substituted font is not exactly the same width.

Export as PDF when you need the deck to look exactly as designed.

Other export options

The Export menu also includes the code options available on regular Magic Patterns designs:

Option	Where to find it
Download Code Zip	Export menu → Download Code Zip
Sync with GitHub	Export menu → Sync with GitHub
Copy Code as Prompt	Export menu → Copy Code as Prompt
Handoff to Engineering (MCP)	Export menu → Handoff to Eng
Fork	Export menu → Fork

See Exporting overview for details on each option.

Sharing your deck

Use Share in the navbar to copy an editor link or invite someone with read or write access.

A preview link opens a read-only deck without the toolbar. Anyone with the link can move through the slides or present fullscreen without a Magic Patterns account. For a public URL, use Publish. You can add password protection or connect a custom domain.

Learn more about sharing and publishing.