> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.presenton.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Presenton does

> See how Presenton turns prompts, documents, and data into editable AI-generated presentations.

Presenton turns source material into an editable slide deck. It handles the repetitive first-draft work while you keep control of the message, design, and final review.

Unlike an image-only slide generator, Presenton builds presentation content that can continue through a normal PowerPoint workflow. The Standard presentation editor in Cloud and open-source Presenton lets you directly edit text, images, shapes, tables, charts, containers, and slide structure before exporting to PPTX or PDF.

## The work Presenton accelerates

| Stage    | Presenton helps with                                                                                                  | You decide                                           |
| -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Brief    | Reads a prompt, documents, files, or structured input                                                                 | Audience, goal, and must-keep facts                  |
| Story    | Proposes an outline and slide sequence                                                                                | What belongs, what does not, and what needs emphasis |
| Design   | Applies a selected template and adds supported visuals                                                                | Brand fit and visual quality                         |
| Editing  | Provides a drag-and-drop canvas, rich text and media tools, component controls, data editing, and targeted AI changes | Final wording, accuracy, brand fit, and approval     |
| Delivery | Exports to PPTX or PDF                                                                                                | How and where the deck is shared                     |

## Edit beyond the first draft

The shared Standard editor is a structured slide canvas, not a flat preview. Select a slide, component, or individual element and adjust it without regenerating the entire presentation.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Text and typography" icon="text-size">
    Edit title, subtitle, body, quote, and list content. Choose fonts and font sizes; apply text color, highlight, bold, italic, underline, and hyperlinks; change alignment; and move, resize, or rotate text elements.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Canvas, components, and layering" icon="objects-align-center-horizontal">
    Drag components freely, reposition them, and control width, height, rotation, and opacity. Resize or rotate with canvas handles, ungroup supported components, duplicate or paste selections, and use **Bring forward**, **Send backward**, **Bring to front**, or **Send to back** to control stacking order.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Shapes, lines, and containers" icon="shapes">
    Insert and edit rectangles, ellipses, and lines. Control fill, border, radius, stroke width, shadow, opacity, size, and position. Use horizontal, vertical, flex, grid, and container layouts with alignment, padding, background, border, and radius controls.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Images" icon="image">
    Insert, upload, or replace images; choose fit behavior; crop and reposition the image within its frame; flip horizontally or vertically; and adjust border radius and opacity. Templates can combine images with text or arrange them in reusable grids and layouts.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Tables and charts" icon="chart-column">
    Insert tables, paste tabular data, edit cells, add or remove rows and columns, move columns, and change text alignment. Create bar, line, area, pie, and doughnut charts; edit or import chart data; manage rows, columns, and series; switch chart types; configure titles, values, axes, gridlines, labels, colors, and opacity; and export chart data as CSV.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Slides, templates, and AI editing" icon="sparkles">
    Add blank slides, apply template layouts, duplicate or delete slides, and reorder the deck. Build reusable layouts from a PPTX, generate presentations from those templates, then use the context-aware assistant for selected-slide or selected-component edits and targeted follow-up responses.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

<Note>
  These capabilities describe the Standard editor shared by Cloud and open-source Presenton. The controls you see change according to the selected slide element.
</Note>

## Common ways to use it

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="One-off presentations" icon="presentation-screen">
    Create a pitch, lesson, proposal, or internal update from a clear brief.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Document summaries" icon="file-lines">
    Turn relevant source material into a shorter visual narrative.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Repeatable reports" icon="chart-column">
    Generate recurring decks from structured input and a stable template.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Product integrations" icon="plug">
    Add presentation generation to an application or automated workflow.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Where it fits

Presenton can be used through its browser interface for hands-on creation, through the self-hosted MCP server for an AI-tool workflow, or through REST APIs for application-driven generation. The self-hosted MCP surface exposes synchronous generation, asynchronous generation, and task-status checking; it is disabled in the Electron desktop app.

## Set the right expectation

Presenton is strongest when the source has a clear goal and the template fits the story. It does not guarantee that a claim is true, that every source detail is included, or that a generated slide is ready to present without review.

<Tip>
  Spend time on the outline before generating slides. Fixing the story early is faster than repairing every slide later.
</Tip>

<Card title="Follow the complete workflow" icon="diagram-project" href="/general/how-presenton-works">
  See where to provide direction, review output, and make corrections.
</Card>