The deck that was shown,
and the notes that came with it.
A deck is a dated document. The handler reads slides, speaker notes, embedded tables and the deck’s own issue date, so what was presented to a board or a site meeting can be cited rather than recalled.
LLX-HANDLER-PPT · R2 · 4 formats
Three things a slide export loses.
Slide text and order
Titles, bullets and the order they were shown in — the argument as it was put, not as it is remembered.
Speaker notes
Notes are read with the slide they belong to. They often say what the slide deliberately did not.
Embedded tables and charts
Tabular data inside a slide is read as data, so a figure shown on screen can be traced.
The questions a deck usually decides.
What a meeting was told
A statement is cited to its slide and to the deck’s issue date, not to someone’s recollection.
ChronologyWhich version was presented
Two revisions of one deck are compared slide by slide, including the notes.
Version diffWhether a risk was disclosed
Every mention of a risk across all decks is retrieved with its slide and date.
DisclosureRead in place, in the format it arrived in.
The file is never converted or re-saved. It is read where it lies, and the handler records a SHA-512 of the bytes it read — so a passage cited today can be replayed against the same file years from now.