Six-skill presentation system: ingest talks into a rhetoric vault, run interactive clarification, generate a speaker profile, create presentations that match your documented patterns, produce the deck illustrations + thumbnail visual layer, and publish talk pages to a Jekyll shownotes site. Includes a 102-entry Presentation Patterns taxonomy (91 observable, 11 unobservable go-live items) for scoring, brainstorming, and go-live preparation.
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#!/bin/bash
# make-bg-slide.sh — build a single comic-style slide whose generated illustration
# is the slide BACKGROUND FILL (so the deck's layout halftone-dot overlay covers it,
# matching the other slides), via the MakeBgImageSlide VBA macro. macOS + PowerPoint.
# See rules/deck-editing-rules.md. The output is a 1-slide .pptx meant to be imported
# into the deck with run-deck-ops.sh (orderStr token `<alias>:1`).
#
# Why a clone, not a fresh slide: a top-pasted picture sits ABOVE the layout's dot
# overlay (wrong), and a python-pptx slide can't borrow the deck's layout/overlay.
# Cloning a real comic template slide inherits the layout (overlay), the styled title
# box, and the footer; we then swap its background fill and retitle.
#
# Usage:
# make-bg-slide.sh <basePath> <templateSlideNum> <imagePath> "<TITLE>" <outPath>
# basePath deck to clone the template slide from (uniquely-named copy)
# templateSlideNum 1-based slide # of a comic FULL-bleed title slide to clone
# (top-positioned title recommended, to match the image's safe zone)
# imagePath the generated illustration to set as the slide background
# TITLE overlaid title text (kept in the template's font)
# outPath where to write the 1-slide .pptx
#
# Prerequisites: RunDeckOps.bas (which defines MakeBgImageSlide) imported into an
# OPEN macro-enabled deck (DeckOps.pptm), macros enabled, Automation consent granted.
set -euo pipefail
if [[ $# -lt 5 ]]; then
echo "usage: make-bg-slide.sh <basePath> <templateSlideNum> <imagePath> <TITLE> <outPath>" >&2
exit 2
fi
BASE="$1"; TEMPLATE="$2"; IMAGE="$3"; TITLE="$4"; OUT="$5"
HERE="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
DRIVER="$HERE/make-bg-slide.applescript"
[[ -f "$BASE" ]] || { echo "ERROR: base deck not found: $BASE — pass a uniquely-named copy of the comic-template deck as <basePath>." >&2; exit 1; }
[[ -f "$IMAGE" ]] || { echo "ERROR: image not found: $IMAGE — pass the generated illustration to set as the slide background." >&2; exit 1; }
[[ -f "$DRIVER" ]] || { echo "ERROR: driver not found: $DRIVER — reinstall the tile; make-bg-slide.applescript must sit next to this script." >&2; exit 1; }
# Sandboxed PowerPoint can't create a file in a Google Drive folder (E_FAIL) —
# stage locally, then move into place with the shell.
STAGE_DIR="$HOME/.deckops-staging"
mkdir -p "$STAGE_DIR"
STAGE="$STAGE_DIR/$(basename "$OUT")"
rm -f "$STAGE"
osascript "$DRIVER" "$BASE" "$TEMPLATE" "$IMAGE" "$TITLE" "$STAGE"
if [[ -f "$STAGE" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$OUT")"
mv -f "$STAGE" "$OUT"
echo "done -> $OUT"
else
echo "ERROR: macro did not produce the staged slide. Check the PowerPoint error dialog, and confirm DeckOps.pptm is open with macros enabled and Automation consent granted — see skills/presentation-creator/references/deck-editing-setup.md." >&2
exit 1
fi.github
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