About this skill

Problem Solved

Journal club slide decks often fail at the evidence layer: main figures are paired with the wrong supplementary panels, crops cut axes and legends, supplementary figures are unreadable, speaker notes remain on the slide, or the .pptx opens cleanly but breaks after export. This skill targets report-ready academic slides rather than template summaries.

How It Works

Mapping before layout: extracts PDF text and rendered pages in parallel, then builds a working table for conclusion / main figure / supporting figure / crop status.
Deck logic follows the paper: result slides use question-style or conclusion titles, preserve the paper's result progression, and multi-paper tasks are integrated into one narrative.
Figure integrity first: uses conservative crops, preserves aspect ratio, avoids stretching, and prefers real supplementary figures over text-dense substitutes.
Rendered QA loop: exports the .pptx to PDF or per-page images, checks title overflow, Chinese fonts, figure identity, and readability, then fixes and re-renders.

Boundaries

Use it for journal clubs, group meetings, literature reviews, and single-paper or multi-paper reports. Avoid course teaching, abstract-level briefs, or business decks where figure evidence is not central. Missing supplements, unsafe crops, or broken CJK rendering should be reported as blockers, not shipped as ready-to-present.

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Use Cases

Prepare a presentable journal club deck from a single paper PDF before a weekly meeting.
Combine related papers into one narrative with correctly paired main and supplementary figures.
QA rendered slides for CJK fonts, title overflow, and readable supporting figures.
Build review-style slides around concept maps and frameworks instead of summary text.

Best For

Graduate students preparing group meetings: they need a paper-faithful evidence narrative.
PhD students running journal clubs: they need presentable single- or multi-paper slides.
Research assistants compiling reviews: they need main figure, supplement, and conclusion maps.
Frontline researchers needing academic decks: they want intact, readable, un-stretched figures.