RELEASES Changelog
What shipped, when, and why your inserts keep getting closer to the original.
Illustrations keep their artwork
- Slides built around one connected illustration (isometric roadmaps, explainer infographics, captain-and-cubes diagrams) used to come out as plain text with all the artwork missing. The illustration is now kept as an image behind your text, so the new slide still looks like the original — and the text on top stays fully editable.
- A note in the popup now tells you when a slide’s artwork was kept as an image, so you know the text is editable even though the picture isn’t.
- Dark-theme card slides reliably extract their icons again.
- Cleaner removal of stray characters that fine image details could be misread as (no more lone “ASQ”/“iS” fragments floating over graphics).
- The artwork recovery applies to everyone automatically; the popup note arrives with this extension update.
Server update NEW
2026-06-13 Dense flowchart slides
- Subtle light-gray panels (the kind used for side rails on busy diagrams) are now detected and rebuilt as editable shapes.
- Fixed text rendering twice (slightly offset) on complex slides where one region was read by two passes.
- Stopped icon artifacts bleeding into adjacent text (no more garbled tokens like "{63" glued onto a label).
- Stopped large diagram regions being kept as one flat image on top of the editable text (the text no longer appears doubled).
- Applies to everyone automatically — no extension update needed.
Right sizes, honest statuses
- Headings and their sub-lines no longer merge into one text box — each line keeps its own true size (a big heading next to small text used to inflate the small text).
- Fixed a race where a long-running conversion (60s+) could show "pipeline_failed" even though it completed fine — the result now always arrives.
- Live progress streaming reconnects cleanly if the connection blips at the exact moment a job finishes.
- Fixed two captions that could silently disappear on dense roadmap slides.
Dark slides done right
- The new slide now gets the original background color — dark-theme slides no longer come out white with invisible text.
- Dark cards and panels on dark backgrounds are detected and inserted as editable shapes.
- Screenshots that include a thin editor frame around the slide no longer confuse background detection.
- Arrow and outline thickness now matches the original (no more giant arrowheads).
- Brand logos with a wordmark (like the Red Hat logo) stay as one clean image instead of becoming garbled text — with a note in the popup so you can retype it if you want it editable.
- Icons inside colored panels are cropped tightly and never swallow neighboring text.
Native arrows & smarter diagrams
- Flowchart arrows now insert as real, editable Slides lines — correct color, direction, and arrowheads — instead of being lost or flattened into images.
- Colored panels behind text are detected and inserted as editable shapes, even when connector arrows touch them.
- Fixed diagonal arrows rendering mirrored after insert.
- Icons, logos, and pictograms on diagram slides are extracted again (they were silently dropped on some layouts).
The accuracy release
- Text boxes are now sized with the same font metrics Google Slides uses, so titles no longer wrap onto a second line and captions no longer pile up on top of each other after insert.
- Font sizes are sanity-checked against the source image — no more comically oversized headings.
- White text on colored panels keeps its true color (previously it could come out pale pink and unreadable).
- Icon cutouts are verified against the original pixels; a cutout that loses detail falls back to a clean crop automatically.
- Captions are never extracted as both an image and a text box anymore (no more ghost double-text).
- Insert is honest: if some elements fail, the popup says "Inserted N of M" with a retry — never a false success.
- Leftover template placeholders ("Click to add title") are reliably removed from the new slide.
- Diagram-heavy slides warn you up front when connector structure may be simplified.
- Fonts that do not exist in Google Slides fall back to Arial with a visible note instead of silently changing.
- Fixed sign-in failing with "bad client id" for extensions installed from the website download.
- Friendly error messages for unsupported or oversized images.
- Every insert is now quality-scored against the original image behind the scenes, so regressions get caught before you do.
- Reporting a bad result now works for runs older than 24 hours.
deckmorph.com
- Moved to our permanent home at deckmorph.com, served through a global CDN.
- API keys (dm_live_…) for programmatic access to the decompose API.
- Promo code redemption on the account page.
- One-click "delete my data" (GDPR) on the account page.
- The extension popup shows how many slides you have left today / this month.
DeckMorph launch
- DeckMorph goes live: turn an AI-generated slide image into native, editable Google Slides objects.
- This website — playground, pricing, docs, and account dashboard.
- Free and Pro plans with self-serve Stripe billing.
- Google sign-in with monthly quotas (anonymous use stays available with a daily limit).
- "Report bad result" — a bad insert can be reported in two clicks for a credit refund.
- Optional auto-refine pass that nudges inserted elements to better match the original.
The new text engine
- Complete rewrite of the text pipeline: every line on the slide is recognized, measured, and grouped into editable text boxes with matching font, size, weight, color, and alignment.
- Large colored panels are recreated as editable shapes with text layered on top.
- Fixed multi-line captions inserting as one box per line.
- Fixed duplicate overlapping text blocks (the "letter pile").
- Nine backend services consolidated into two — faster and far more reliable.