A FastMCP-powered server for programmatically creating, editing, and rendering PowerPoint (PPTX) presentations. Supports slide creation, text and shape insertion, image embedding, and slide rendering to PNG (with LibreOffice).

• Create/Clear Presentations: Start new or reset existing PPTX files.
• Add Slides: Insert slides with customizable layouts.
• Text & Content: Add titles, content, and custom textboxes to slides.
• Shapes: Insert a wide variety of PowerPoint shapes (including flowchart elements).
• Images: Embed images into slides.
• Slide Description: Get a textual summary of slide contents for verification.
• Slide Rendering: Render slides as PNG images (requires LibreOffice).
• Download PPTX: Download the generated presentation file.

• Python 3.12+
• python-pptx
• Pillow
• FastMCP
• LibreOffice (for slide image rendering; must be installed separately and available in your system PATH)

1. Install Python dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   (Or see pyproject.toml for dependencies)

2. Install LibreOffice (for image rendering):

   • Linux: sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh or sudo apt install libreoffice
   • macOS: brew install --cask libreoffice
   • Windows: Download from libreoffice.org

Start the server:

python server.py

You can set the server's host and port using environment variables:

• HOST (default: 127.0.0.1)
• PORT (default: 8000)

For example, to run on all interfaces and port 9000:

HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=9000 python server.py

Or (for development with FastMCP):

fastmcp dev server.py

The server exposes tools and resources via FastMCP, including:

• create_or_clear_presentation(filename)
• add_slide(filename, layout_index)
• add_title_and_content(filename, slide_index, title, content)
• add_textbox(filename, slide_index, text, left_inches, top_inches, width_inches, height_inches, font_size_pt, bold)
• add_shape(filename, slide_index, shape_type_name, left_inches, top_inches, width_inches, height_inches, text)
• add_picture(filename, slide_index, image, left_inches, top_inches, width_inches, height_inches)
• get_slide_content_description(filename, slide_index)
• get_slide_image(filename, slide_index) (requires LibreOffice)
• get_pptx_file(filename)

See the code for full parameter details and available shape types.

• Presentations are saved in the presentations/ directory.
• You can add your own templates in presentations/templates/.

See LICENSE for details.