What’s new

Generated decks line up on a grid of squares. Decks made with Foveate Digital, the built-in layouts you get when you pick no template, now place every picture and block of text on a modular grid of square modules with clear gaps between them. It is twelve squares across and six down, so pictures and text sit apart with a full gap between them. The same layouts in the editor's Layouts menu follow it too.

Landscape pictures first. Since most architectural photography and renders are landscape, the picture beside your words is now a wide landscape frame across two-thirds of the slide, instead of a tall half-page. Covers, feature cards and statements with a picture use landscape frames as well, so less of your image is cropped away.

Narrower text columns. Headings and paragraphs beside a picture sit in a narrower column that is easier to read, centred beside the image. When a slide has fewer features, figures or steps than it has room for, they spread across whole grid columns, so the slide still lines up.

Numbered lists count correctly. A numbered list beside a picture now reads 01, 02, 03, where it could skip numbers before. Step markers on a plan with fewer steps also keep their size.

Attaching from your Library works like the deck editor's Library. Wherever you choose files from your Library to attach, on Home, in a chat, in Generate Deck or in the image tools, you now get the same window the deck editor uses. It has tabs for Favorites, Shared, All Assets and Stock, with search, a type filter, sorting and a size control. Pick files from any tab and attach them all at once, including stock photos with their credit.

Evenly dimmed behind the Library in Generate Deck. Opening your Library from Generate Deck now dims the whole screen the same amount, sidebar included. Before, the page behind it went much darker than the sidebar.

Four new looks in Generate Deck. Under Made by Foveate in the Template menu, beside Foveate Digital and Foveate Proposal, you can now pick Foveate Letter, Foveate Noir, Foveate Blueprint or Foveate Atelier. Each has its own page size, grid and typefaces. Hover one in the menu to preview its pages.

Foveate Letter. A US Letter portrait proposal that reads like a written document: serif text with a running head, and your images placed within the text, with the writing continuing above, below or beside each one. Set in Libre Franklin and Source Serif Pro.

Foveate Noir. A 16:9 deck with white type on near-black, full-bleed images, and sweeping parallel lines. Every picture and block of text sits on a modular grid of squares, six across and four down, with clear gaps between them. Set in Syne and Manrope.

Foveate Blueprint. ARCH D drawing sheets in blueprint blue, with a double border, a faint drafting grid and a title block down the right edge. Your photos keep their true colours, edged with a fine line. Set in Space Grotesk and Space Mono.

Foveate Atelier. A3 landscape pages on light-brown kraft paper, with arched picture frames, flowing ornaments and double rules in a light Art Nouveau hand. Set in Cormorant and Alegreya Sans.

Layouts for every slide. Each template covers the cover, section openers, a statement, text with images, a full-page image, three features, key figures, a timeline and a closing page, so a generated deck uses the template from start to finish. If a row of three picture frames gets fewer of your images than it has frames, the empty ones keep a placeholder you can replace, so the row stays whole.

Foveate Proposal keeps its images on the grid. The cover and section pages now place their image across whole columns of the three-column grid, instead of splitting the page in half.

Text fills linked columns. On a template page whose columns are linked text frames, a slide's text now runs through those columns instead of being split into small labels.

Asking for changes to an outline no longer fails. When you asked Generate Deck to change an outline, the request could stop with an error if a slide's text was written as one paragraph rather than as points. It now works for those slides too.

Two templates made by Foveate, side by side. Generate Deck's Template menu now lists Foveate's own two starting points together under Made by Foveate. Foveate Digital is the built-in layouts and styles for decks shown on screen, and is what you get when you pick no template. Foveate Proposal, until now called Architecture Proposal, is the tabloid page made for text-heavy proposals with images.

Preview and remove what you attach. In Generate Deck, hover a picture, video or file under Attachments to see it larger and whole, with its name and a line on what it shows. The same hover brings up a remove button, so you can take anything out of the brief before you generate, including files you attached from the composer.

Locked layers stay out of the way. In the deck editor, clicking on a locked layer now reaches whatever is behind it, so a locked shape or picture covering the slide no longer stops you selecting the text and pictures underneath it. Empty space under it clears your selection or starts a box selection as usual. To change a locked layer, select it in Layers: once selected, its toolbar, with Unlock, works as before.

Your template's pages, as drawn. A deck generated from a template made on an A4 or other non-widescreen page now keeps each page's layout exactly as you drew it. Pictures, text boxes and type stay at their own size and place, instead of being shrunk and shifted. A heading gets the room the page has rather than shrinking into a small box.

The template sets the page and the look. When you pick a template in Generate Deck, the deck is made on that template's own page size. The Format control shows "From template" with the page, and the Style control in the review shows "From template" too. Both are locked while the template is applied; choose Foveate Digital to change them. Switching to another template switches the page with it, and choosing Foveate Digital goes back to the page you had before, rather than keeping the last template's page. The review also lists the fonts the deck will use, each in its own typeface, with which one sets the headings and which the body.

Pictures shown whole. A slide with a picture now goes on a template page with a proper picture frame, not one whose only frame is a thin strip that would crop the picture to a sliver. Where a template doubled up a frame, a second picture is no longer stacked on top of the first.

Only your pictures. The deck Foveate makes when you set up from your website now uses only photos and video from your site, in the outline you review and in the finished deck. A slide with no picture of yours is laid out for words instead of showing a stand-in photo.

One large cover. The cover shows a single large photo, or your site's video if it has one, never a slideshow.

Each project on its own slide. Every project slide shows that project's own photos, and a project's photos stay on its slide.

No template filler text. Generated decks no longer leave example text such as "Heading" or "The first point" on a slide. Points, figures, features and steps from your outline go into the layout, and anything the outline doesn't fill is left off.

Project descriptions show in full. When you open a project in your Portfolio, its description now grows to fit everything you've written, rather than sitting in a small box with its own scroll bar. Write as much as the project needs, and scroll the details panel to read or edit all of it.