# ppt-master v4.5.0

- Product: ppt-master (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ppt-master)
- Vendor: hugohe3
- Date: 2026-08-09
- Version: v4.5.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/hugohe3/ppt-master/releases/tag/v4.5.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ppt-master/releases/v4.5.0

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- **added** — Fifteen brand identity workspaces for consulting, enterprise technology, Chinese technology, and financial organizations with labelled provenance and documented palette traps
- **added** — Eleven Style workspaces with orthogonal communication methods: academic-research, creative-pitch, incident-postmortem, investor-pitch, narrative-keynote, operating-review, product-launch, science-explainer, solution-proposal, technical-deepdive, and workshop-teaching
- **added** — Six layout systems including presentation_core_43 (4:3), report_core (16:9 with multi-Master support), editorial_bleed (16:9), xiaohongshu_post (3:4), story_vertical (9:16), and moments_square (1:1) each authored for their own canvas
- **changed** — Template installation now creates separate spec files per workspace as `design_spec.<kind>.<id>.md` instead of merging into a single lossy file
- **changed** — Segment ownership now governs visual weight and dominance independent of install time, moving precedence to read time
- **changed** — Structure is now a runtime shape-composition grammar loaded by Default and Quick instead of a static catalog
- **changed** — Visualizations split by information model with charts keeping value-driven assets while qualitative topology and cell grids move out
- **changed** — Table rebuilt around six cell-grid grammars with schedules routed to Gantt
- **added** — Conditional geometry-composition pass with semantic validation for structural geometry and deck rhythm
- **added** — Directional multi-image composition where each image page decides its direction, contour, slots, and integration with vector, baseline, curve-spine, and panel geometry
- **added** — Word-timed subtitles for MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and CosyVoice with provider timings regrouped into shared compact SRT format
- **added** — Subtitles live beside their audio with an atomic manifest carrying provider provenance
- **changed** — Quick is now a self-contained runtime profile with source conversion, factual research, source import, and PPTX intake inlined
- **changed** — Default and Quick are now mutually exclusive procedures with Quick keeping full capability surface without substitute planning artifacts
- **changed** — Beautify selects runtime from explicit intent, using Quick only when trigger matches otherwise Default
- **added** — Project-scoped `workflow.log` as a cold audit trail mirroring project-scoped Python text output

v4.4.0 made Style a template kind and put a passing quality report in front of every export. This release fills the template library that decision surface selects from — **26 new workspaces across brands, styles, and layouts** — and rebuilds how a deck is composed: visualization catalogs split by information model, and structure becomes a composition grammar rather than a list of preset shapes.

##### Template library

- **Fifteen brand identity workspaces.** Consulting (mckinsey, bcg, bain, deloitte, pwc, accenture), enterprise technology (microsoft, nvidia, ibm, aws), Chinese technology (huawei, alibaba, tencent, xiaomi), and financial (jpmorgan). Provenance is labelled per value: nvidia and ibm primaries are `fact` from published guidelines and the open Carbon token set; the other thirteen are `approx` and say so, because those organizations publish no open brand manual. No workspace bundles a logo — every section IV sets `File: none` and describes how to install officially supplied artwork. Goldman Sachs and China Merchants Bank were dropped rather than guessed. Each entry also records the practical trap in its palette: Huawei's restrained-accent principle, the near-identical Alibaba and Xiaomi orange, Blue 60 being interactive rather than fill, Microsoft's four quadrants colliding with status semantics, Deloitte and NVIDIA green failing contrast for body text.
- **Eleven Style workspaces** whose communication methods are orthogonal rather than restyled variants: academic-research, creative-pitch, incident-postmortem, investor-pitch, narrative-keynote, operating-review, product-launch, science-explainer, solution-proposal, technical-deepdive, workshop-teaching. Fallback color is written only where color carries declared semantics; no Style declares fallback typography, which would act as a gravity source pulling unrelated decks toward one family.
- **Six layout systems.** presentation_core_43 (4:3, 16 prototypes) authored for the narrower field rather than scaled down; report_core (16:9, 13 prototypes, two Masters — the first multi-Master layout, with real footer and slide-number placeholders instead of drawn text); editorial_bleed (16:9, 10 prototypes, every picture slot reaching a canvas edge and no frame at all); xiaohongshu_post (3:4), story_vertical (9:16), and moments_square (1:1) completing the social canvas set. Each was authored for its own canvas: no vertical page splits into side-by-side columns, 9:16 lets pictures cross the interface safe zones text must respect, and 1:1 uses both axes because it is the only canvas where both divide soundly.

##### Template application

- **Each workspace installs as its own spec instead of being fused.** Applying several templates used to hand-merge their specs into one `templates/design_spec.md` — lossy, manually renumbered, and ungoverned. Installed specs are now `design_spec.<kind>.<id>.md`, each a verbatim copy with one provenance line, so several workspaces of the same kind coexist. Precedence moves from install time to read time.
- **An owned segment governs visual weight, not only values.** When a segment owner declares that a value should dominate, recede, or stay rare, that carries the same authority as the value itself — the root cause behind two decks where a spec-declared dominant color became an incidental accent.

##### Composition

- **Structure is a grammar, not a catalog.** The Structure catalog is replaced by a runtime shape-composition method loaded by both Default and Quick, adding carrier topology, structural punctuation, port states, label tethers, and node-local hierarchy. Published bare keys remain accepted as intent-only compatibility inputs.
- **Visualizations split by information model.** Charts keep value-driven assets; qualitative topology and cell grids move out, Table is rebuilt around six cell-grid grammars with schedules routed to Gantt, and canonical family indexes carry legacy key aliases. Planning references, Executor branches, native readin

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