fix(desktop): preserve layered PPTX backgrounds

[Siri-Ray]

Why

An editable PPTX exported from a real Open Design deck rendered its cream paper background as black in WPS and macOS Quick Look. The source deck uses two CSS linear-gradient(...) background layers for its paper texture. The vendored dom-to-pptx gradient parser assumes a single gradient and greedily combines the two layers into one invalid SVG gradient, producing the dark fallback image.

This fixes the reported export without changing the deck source or flattening the whole slide. It is intentionally scoped to the layered-background problem; the font and heading fidelity work remains in #6840.

What users will see

Exporting a deck with layered CSS gradients through the existing editable PPTX action preserves the authored background instead of turning it black. The background-only layer is rasterized with Chromium, while authored text and shapes remain native editable PowerPoint objects.

Surface area

• UI — new page / dialog / panel / menu item / setting / empty state in apps/web or apps/desktop (including Electron menu bar)
• Keyboard shortcut — new or changed
• CLI / env var — new od subcommand or flag, new tools-dev / tools-pack flag, or new OD_* env var
• API / contract — new /api/* endpoint, new SSE event, or changed shape in packages/contracts
• Extension point — new entry under skills/, design-systems/, design-templates/, or craft/, or change to the skills protocol
• i18n keys — added new translation keys (see TRANSLATIONS.md for the locale workflow)
• New top-level dependency — adding any new entry to the root package.json (dependencies or devDependencies); workspace-package package.json files are out of scope. Include a paragraph on what we get vs. what bytes we ship (see CONTRIBUTING.md → Code style)
• Default behavior change — changes what existing users experience without opting in (default model, default setting, file/SQLite schema, auto-network on startup, auto-install)
• None — internal refactor, docs, tests, or translation update only

Screenshots

No new UI entry point. Manual visual verification used the reported 10-page deck: the exported slide background changed from the black fallback to the authored cream paper texture in macOS Quick Look, and the PPTX package contains native text/shape objects alongside the isolated background image.

Bug fix verification

• Test path: apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts
• Red on main: yes — the converter received the original two-layer gradient and the assertion failed because no isolated Chromium-capture layer existed.
• Green on this branch: yes.
• Original scenario: exported the reported 10-page HTML deck through the real Electron editable-PPTX path, inspected the embedded 1650×968 background PNG, and rendered the resulting PPTX with macOS Quick Look.

Validation

• pnpm --filter @open-design/desktop test — 327 passed, 1 skipped
• pnpm --filter @open-design/desktop typecheck
• pnpm --filter @open-design/desktop build
• pnpm guard
• pnpm typecheck
• Real-deck Electron export plus PPTX package and Quick Look visual inspection

[lefarcen]

🧪 Queued for QA validation — this PR changes the editable PPTX export output users open in WPS/PowerPoint, so we want a manual QA pass before merge.

Nothing needed from you right now; we'll update here once it's validated. Thanks!

[nettee]

Two correctness blockers remain in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts. The focused regression test passes, and pnpm run typecheck / pnpm run build pass in apps/desktop, but the changed gradient allowlist and layout mutation still regress existing deck content. See the inline comments for the concrete cases.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — 8cd874e

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Restricted layered-background extraction in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts to functions supported by the bundled html2canvas runtime, leaving repeating/conic gradients untouched. Added focused fixtures for both unsupported forms.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1212 (@nettee) — thread
  • Layered capture now skips static nested elements, preserving absolute children anchored to an outer slide while retaining the established slide-level containing-block behavior. Added an outer-anchored child regression case.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1161 (@nettee) — thread
  • Made the explicit slide-background shim mutually exclusive when the slide's supported layered background is owned by Chromium capture, preventing duplicate compositing. Added an assertion that exactly one capture layer is emitted.

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[nettee]

Fresh pass over the current head found two correctness blockers in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts. The positioned-layer case is isolated correctly, but the new preprocessing still drops or mis-renders other authored gradient content; the inline comments describe the failing paths and the concrete fixes needed.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — fad335c

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts now positions a capture child from static-panel offset geometry while leaving the panel and descendants untouched; the focused export test verifies the raster layer and preserved containing-block semantics.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1212 (@nettee) — thread
  • apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts now excludes standard and WebKit text-clipped gradients from background extraction, keeping them on the native text path; focused fixtures cover both clip properties.

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[nettee]

Two correctness issues remain in the layered-background extraction: it changes masked gradient layers and does not collect pseudo-element gradient layers. The focused desktop suite, desktop typecheck/build, workspace typecheck, and guard pass, but the output-fidelity cases below still need a fix before merge.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — d3d0b3b

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1244 (@nettee) — thread
  • Materialized supported layered ::before/::after backgrounds as positioned capture elements with their geometry, z-order, opacity, transform, blend, and filter styles. The Electron fixture confirms the pseudo-element case produces PPTX PNG media.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Masked layered elements now bypass html2canvas extraction because the bundled renderer does not preserve CSS masks, preventing newly unmasked rectangles. The Electron fixture verifies zero capture layers and exported native SVG media.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts:153 (@nettee) — thread
  • Added an Electron renderer fixture that injects the vendored bundle, runs real PPTX export for supported, pseudo, and masked cases, and inspects generated PPTX media and capture counts.

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[nettee]

Fresh implementation pass found three blocking output-fidelity issues in the new layered-background extraction. The focused desktop suite (334 passed, 1 skipped), desktop typecheck/build, guard, and workspace typecheck all pass locally, but these cases are not covered by the current media-extension assertions.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — 6b17766

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1574 (@nettee) — thread
  • Layered backgrounds are now isolated on their authored nodes and captured by Chromium before native conversion, preserving source compositing, clipping, filters, effective opacity, and transforms in the PNG. The Electron regression decodes exported pixels and verifies clipping and authored alpha.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Captured background images are inserted as siblings with explicit export geometry, and the child position/z-index rewrite was removed. The positioned-parent/static-wrapper fixture verifies the wrapper and its outer-anchored absolute descendant retain their authored styles.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Masked layered backgrounds now use Chromium transparent capture instead of the native single-gradient SVG fallback. The Electron regression decodes the exported PNG and verifies both transparent and translucent mask alpha.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray I found two remaining blocking correctness/performance issues in the layered-background export path. A painted intermediate ancestor can be omitted from a flattened compositor group, and the clipped/masked backdrop fallback can perform an unbounded DOM hit-test scan. The focused fixtures exercise small filtered and stripe cases, but neither case is bounded or covered for the general DOM shapes below; please address the anchored issues before merge.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — a330761

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:778 (@nettee) — thread
  • Expanded compositor-group membership through the full ancestor chain to the outer boundary, so painted static wrappers are captured and their native fills are suppressed. The Electron fixture verifies decoded pixels and PPTX image/text/fill order.
• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Replaced area-scaled per-pixel fallback work with a maximum 4096-sample stratified grid. A 1920×1080 DPR-2 regression verifies the fixed hit-test bound while the narrow clipped-stripe pixel comparison remains green.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray

The normalization/capture split is thoughtful, but the new bounded clipped-backdrop sampler still loses authored paint. The focused desktop regression suite is red on this head: 45/46 tests pass, while the clipped-stripe Chromium comparison exceeds its stated threshold.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — 9cfcd85

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Replaced the fixed grid in deck-capture.ts with a temporary clip/mask-free Chromium paint-order probe that restores authored styles and conservatively retains uncertain backdrops. Added a 1920×1080 DPR-2 1px-stripe pixel comparison; the full desktop suite passes.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray I found one remaining blocking output-fidelity gap in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts: CSS clipping and masking are not treated as compositor boundaries, so the Chromium background raster can diverge from the native editable foreground. The inline finding covers the self and ancestor cases and the focused fixture coverage needed to close it.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — c2836fa

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Extended hasUnsupportedNativeAncestorEffect to classify non-none clip paths and standard/WebKit masks, ensuring affected self and ancestor groups capture their full foreground paint. Added Electron/PPTX fixtures for self clip, ancestor clip, and prefixed-mask cases with Chromium comparisons and native text/border absence assertions.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray

The focused Electron layered-background regression is still red on c2836fa: the clipped-stripe fixture exports pixels that do not match Chromium, so this output-fidelity path is not ready to merge.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — 1781778

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Moved clip/mask handling ahead of the initial sampledTogether exit in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts and reset sampling state before the clip-free probe. The focused stripe regressions and full desktop suite pass.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray The desktop typecheck and repository guard pass, but the new layered-background regression suite is still red on this head: the focused Electron test run reports 49 passing tests and one failure in the clipped-stripe backdrop case. That mismatch is blocking because it exercises the PR's core Chromium-capture path.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — ab689ae

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Updated apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts to resolve each capture through its slide picture geometry and relationship, with pixel-content ranking for overlapping images. The focused file passes 50/50 and the full desktop suite passes 376 with 1 skipped.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray

The new geometry-based media association is a useful correction, but the final Electron regression test is still renderer-scale dependent. I reproduced the clipped-stripe case failing on the repository’s macOS Electron runtime: the Chromium and exported captures are both 192×96, but their center colors are 117 and 128 and the mean channel delta is 8.19 (the assertion allows 1). The inline comment points to the hard-coded probe scale. Please make that capture DPR-aware so this new regression remains green on both DPR 1 and DPR 2; the production path and the other probe captures already establish the needed convention.

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Looper fixer round complete — 4a05094

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts (@nettee) — thread
  • Updated the Electron/PPTX media probe to query window.devicePixelRatio and use Math.min(2, 2 / devicePixelRatio), matching production capture scaling. The full 50-test file, including default and forced-DPR-2 pixel assertions, passes.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray

The Chromium isolation work and expanded Electron/PPTX coverage are a strong step toward preserving editable layered backgrounds. One blocking output-fidelity failure remains on this head: pnpm --filter @open-design/desktop test reports 375 passed, 1 failed, and 1 skipped because the clipped-stripe blend case emits [128,128,128] instead of Chromium's [117,117,117] (mean channel delta 8.195 vs. the threshold of 1). Please correct the clipped-backdrop capture before merge; the detailed reproduction and fix direction are anchored below.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — d778871

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1016 (@nettee) — thread
  • Updated isolateLayeredPptxBackground to use full-coverage clip and mask values during paint-order probing, preserving stacking contexts before restoring authored styles. Both clipped-stripe regressions and the full desktop suite pass.

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[nettee]

The current head still has one blocking output-fidelity regression in the clipped-stripe blend path. I reproduced it with the changed desktop suite; the detailed failure and fix direction are inline.

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[Siri-Ray]

Looper fixer round complete — ddc7933

• ✅ Review comment on apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts:1030 (@nettee) — thread
  • Updated paintsBehindTarget in apps/desktop/src/main/deck-capture.ts to probe standard and prefixed clip paths and masks across candidate and target ancestor chains. Strengthened the Chromium-to-PPTX clipped-stripe pixel regression; the desktop suite now passes 376 tests with 1 skipped.

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[nettee]

@Siri-Ray

The latest ancestor-clipped backdrop change still leaves the focused editable-PPTX regression red. The local focused Electron suite reports 375 passing, 1 skipped, with .clipped-stripe-target exporting [128,128,128] instead of Chromium [117,117,117]; the inline finding below explains why the new probe still drops those backdrop pixels.

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[nettee]

Blocking — nested clipped backdrops are skipped during isolation.

When the capture target is the clipping ancestor (.clipped-stripe-clip) and the layered blend element is its sibling, this guard excludes every descendant of the target. That also excludes .clipped-stripe-backdrop, which is the only paint behind the blend but is not a captured compositing member. Isolation then hides it, so the captured PNG is uniformly [128,128,128] while Chromium renders [117,117,117]; apps/desktop/tests/main/pptx-layered-background.test.ts:577 fails on this head.

Probe descendants of a compositor root that are not members (or conservatively retain uncertain nested backdrop paint) before hiding them, and keep the clipped-stripe Chromium/PPTX comparison green.

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