Journal Club Paper Slides

Problem

A common failure in paper presentation decks is not lack of content, but broken evidence chains: main figures are paired with the wrong supporting panels, crops remove axes or legends, .pptx files open normally but exported PDFs show missing Chinese glyphs, clipped titles, or lingering presenter notes. Such output often looks like a draft rather than a deck for journal club, group meetings, or literature reports.

How It Works

The skill treats the task as a verifiable production workflow:
- First confirm the PDF, supplementary files, language, audience, and page constraints;
- Extract text and page images in parallel;
- Build a figure — question — supporting figure — conclusion mapping before layout;
- Prioritize complete figure crops, conservative trimming, and pairing main figures with supporting figures by conclusion-level relationship rather than page proximity;
- Export PDFs or per-page images for render QA, checking missing glyphs, figure identity, distortion, title overflow, and unreadable support figures.

Fit and Limits

It is suited to experimental papers, review papers, and multi-paper syntheses, but not to course slides needing heavy textbook scaffolding, abstract-only briefs that do not depend on figures, or business reports where figure-evidence integrity is not a core constraint. If the PDF is unreadable, key figures cannot be safely extracted, Chinese fonts are unavailable, or render checks cannot be completed, the workflow should report blockers rather than claim a presentation-ready result.