PowerPoint Translation Skill

Translate PowerPoint presentations while preserving all formatting including fonts, colors, spacing, tables, and alignment.

When to Use This Skill

• Translating .pptx files between languages
• Batch translating multiple presentations in a directory
• Preserving slide formatting during translation (especially CJK ↔ English)
• QA-ing a translated deck with a vision language model (--vision-audit) to catch text overflow, truncation, garbled glyphs, untranslated leftovers, overlaps, or contrast problems
• When you need to inspect intermediate XML for debugging

Setup

Before first use, set up the environment:

# Navigate to the scripts directory
cd .claude/skills/ppt-translator/scripts