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Beautiful slides from SVG. Your editor, your style.

Why Inkflow?

Every presentation tool makes you choose.

Visual editors (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides) give you a canvas. Drag shapes, tweak spacing, iterate until it looks right. But your work lives in proprietary formats tied to a platform or subscription.

Code-based tools (Beamer, Slidev, reveal.js) keep everything as plain text. Diffable, version-controlled, editor-agnostic. But you describe layout in markup instead of drawing it. Creativity suffers when moving a box means editing a number.

Inkflow gives you both. Draw in any SVG editor. Keep everything in plain text.

How it works

  1. Draw each slide as an SVG. Use Inkscape, Figma, or any editor that exports SVG. No special markup, no plugin — draw exactly as you normally would.
  2. List your slides in deck.py. A small Python file says which slides to show, in what order, and which elements animate or transition in.
  3. Run inkflow serve. A browser tab opens with your presentation. Save a change in your editor and it appears instantly, without losing your place.

That's the core loop — the rest is there once you need it: reusable layouts that inherit from each other like master slides, Markdown-filled zones for text-heavy slides, a presenter view with speaker notes, one-command export to static HTML or PDF, and more. Browse the guides or read Concepts for the full picture.

Quick example

from inkflow import Deck, Slide, animations, transitions

def main() -> Deck:
    return Deck(slides=[
        Slide("title.svg", animations=[
            animations.FadeIn("#headline", step=1),
            animations.FadeIn("#subtitle", step=2),
        ]),
        Slide("diagram.svg", animations=[
            animations.Bounce("#box-a", step=1),
            animations.Bounce("#box-b", step=2),
        ], transition=transitions.Crossfade()),
        Slide("summary.svg", transition=transitions.Morph(duration=0.7)),
    ])

inkflow serve   # open http://localhost:7777

Note

All guides are currently AI-generated drafts and may contain inaccuracies or incomplete information. I'll review them once the API stabilizes