PPTX MCP Server

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).

Features

• 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.

Requirements

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

Installation

1. Install Python dependencies:

pip install .

*(Installs from `pyproject.toml` for dependencies)*

2. Optional: Install python-dotenv for development environment variables:

pip install python-dotenv

3. Install LibreOffice (for image rendering):

Usage

Start the server:

python server.py

For development with environment variables:

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

Create/edit the `.env` file in the project root:

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

HOST=0.0.0.0
PORT=9000

Load the environment variables when starting the server:

python server.py

Or (for development with FastMCP):

fastmcp dev server.py

API Overview

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 & Templates

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

License

See LICENSE for details.