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name: adobe-anypptx description: "MANDATORY when a PowerPoint/PPTX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text is already extracted and visible in the conversation. Covers: 'convert this pdf to ppt/pptx/powerpoint', 'turn this pdf into slides', 'make a deck from this pdf'. Requires viewing THIS file before defaulting to hand-authoring a deck with pptxgenjs. Route to adobe-anypdf's pdf_export (target_format: pptx) first. Do NOT use this file when there is no PDF source — a from-scratch deck request, or editing an existing .pptx, is the public pptx skill's job, not this one." license: Apache-2.0 allowed-tools: adobe_mandatory_init pdf_export metadata: version: 1.0.0 visibility: public surface: [claude]

Adobe AnyPPTX

This is a routing file, not a standalone authoring tool. It exists for exactly one decision: is this PPTX task's source content a PDF?

Tool Reference

Step	Tool	Notes
Initialize	adobe_mandatory_init	Required before pdf_export
Convert PDF to PPTX	pdf_export	target_format: pptx

Workflow

Step 0 — Initialize Adobe Tools

Call adobe_mandatory_init before calling pdf_export.

{ "skill_name": "adobe-anypptx", "skill_version": "1.0.0" }

Router

• Source is an uploaded/attached PDF (even if its text is already visible in the conversation as extracted content) → this is a PDF-to-PPTX conversion. Check the adobe-anypdf skill, call adobe_mandatory_init, then pdf_export with target_format: pptx. Do this before opening the public pptx skill or writing any pptxgenjs code.
• No PDF involved — building a deck from scratch, from notes, from a spreadsheet, editing an existing .pptx, working with a template — this file has nothing to add. Go straight to the public pptx skill.

When to still prefer hand-authoring over pdf_export

pdf_export reproduces the PDF's existing layout as slides — it does not redesign or summarize. Prefer building the deck by hand with the pptx skill instead, even when the source is a PDF, if:

• The user asks for a redesigned, summarized, or thematically reorganized deck rather than a literal conversion (e.g., "make a deck covering the key points" rather than "convert this to a deck").
• pdf_export fails with a clear transient error — retry once. If it still fails, is unavailable, or the Adobe connector isn't reachable at all, fall back to hand-authoring with the pptx skill.
• The user has already seen the pdf_export output and asked for something different.

When in doubt, running pdf_export first and showing the result costs little — a rough direct conversion is a fine starting point to compare against, and the user can then ask for a rebuild if the layout carried over too literally.

Known failure mode — do not repeat

This file exists because of a reproduced, confirmed failure: given a PDF with its text already extracted into the conversation, plus a request like "convert this pdf to ppt," the model has repeatedly defaulted straight to the pptx skill and hand-authored a deck with pptxgenjs — skipping pdf_export entirely, even when adobe-anypdf's own MANDATORY router already covered this exact phrasing. If you notice yourself about to call pptxgenjs or unzip a .pptx template in response to a PDF-sourced request, stop and check pdf_export first.