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Turn a blog post, article, notes, or any source material into a set of vertical poster images — one cover plus several coherent content slides that explain the core points. Renders HTML/CSS to exact-size PNGs via headless Chrome. Use whenever the user wants cover art, 讲解图/配图, carousel slides, 封面图, poster series, or "content images" from an article/文章/素材/文件, especially for blog, 公众号, 小红书, or social posts. Default output is 1080×1920 PNG named 1.png (cover), 2.png, 3.png … written to the current working directory (the project the user is in) — never the source file's directory.

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Blog Cover Poster

Overview

Generate a cover image (1.png) plus N coherent content slides (2.png, 3.png, …) from source material. Each image is an exact 1080×1920 PNG. The pipeline authors one HTML file per page using bundled CSS/templates, then renders them to PNG with headless Chrome — this gives precise control over Chinese/English typography, color semantics, and emphasis.

Workflow

  1. Read the source. Take the file/text the user provides. Extract the title/hook and the core points. Verify facts against the source only — do not invent stats, names, or claims that aren't in the material.
  2. Plan the deck (do this before writing any HTML):
    • Pick a theme: theme-dark (tech / AI / finance / dev topics) or theme-light (knowledge / tutorial / lifestyle / business explainer). Default to the topic fit; honor an explicit user request.
    • Decide page count automatically from the number of distinct core points: cover + one slide per point. Typical total is 4–8 images. Merge thin points; split overloaded ones. One idea per content slide.
    • Sketch a one-line outline: 1 cover → 2 <point> → 3 <point> …. If the user gave a fixed count, follow it.
  3. Set up a scratch working dir — author intermediate HTML/CSS here, not in the source directory and not littering the project dir: 
    WORK=$(mktemp -d)
cp <SKILL_DIR>/assets/poster.css "$WORK"/
    Author pages as $WORK/page-1.html (cover), $WORK/page-2.html, … using the templates as a starting point (see Authoring pages). The relative <link href="poster.css"> resolves because the CSS sits beside them.
  4. Render PNGs into the current project directory ($PWD — where the user invoked the skill), never the source file's directory: 
    python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/render.py --in "$WORK" --out "$PWD"
    This writes 1.png, 2.png, … (exact 1080×1920) into $PWD. page-1.html always becomes the cover 1.png. If the user names a different output dir, use that instead — but default to $PWD.
  5. Inspect every PNG with the Read tool. Check the checklist below. Fix the HTML in $WORK and re-render until clean.
  6. Clean up the scratch dir (rm -rf "$WORK"). Only the N.png files remain in the project dir — that is the deliverable. The source directory is never touched.

Authoring pages

Start from the templates and edit — don't write markup from scratch:

  • assets/template-cover.html → page-1.html
  • assets/template-content.html → page-2.html, page-3.html, …

Keep the same theme-* class on <body> across all pages.

Content-slide layouts

The content template ships three layout blocks — keep one per page, delete the rest:

  • Points (ul.points): 2–4 scannable items, best default for "reasons / steps / features".
  • Paragraph (.body): 2–3 short sentences for a concept that needs prose.
  • Big stat (.stat): one large number for a data point that deserves a full slide.

Emphasis rules (semantic coloring & sizing)

Emphasis must track meaning and importance, not decoration:

  • .hl / .hl2 — filled color chip. At most ONE per page, on the single most important term. .hl2 (warm) for contrast/warning/payoff; .hl (cool) otherwise.
  • .ul — underline. Softer emphasis, for 1–2 secondary terms.
  • .accent — colored text, for the lead word of each list item.
  • .muted — de-emphasized text (subtitles, footers, labels).
  • Type hierarchy is pre-tuned in the CSS: cover title 132px, content heading 84px, body 50–52px. Bigger = more important. If text overflows the 1920px height, cut words or split into another slide — do not shrink below the template sizes.

Copywriting for posters

  • Cover title: a punchy hook, ≤ ~14 CJK chars per line, ≤ 2 lines.
  • Content headings: short, one idea. Content body: fragments over full paragraphs — these are read in seconds.
  • Number the deck in the content .index (e.g. 01 / 05) so the series reads as coherent.

Verification checklist (per image)

  • Size is exactly 1080×1920 (render.py enforces & prints this).
  • No text is clipped at edges or overflows the bottom.
  • Exactly one filled highlight chip per page, on the right term.
  • Emphasis reflects the actual key point, not random words.
  • Theme is consistent across all pages; contrast is readable.
  • Content slides read as a coherent, ordered series (indices match count).
  • Every claim traces to the source material.

Notes

  • <SKILL_DIR> is this skill's folder. render.py needs Python 3 with Pillow and a Chrome/Chromium install (it auto-detects common locations).
  • To regenerate a single slide, edit its page-N.html and re-run render.py — it overwrites all N.png deterministically from the current HTML set.
  • For custom fonts, brand colors, or logos: adjust assets/poster.css tokens (--d-accent, --l-accent, etc.) or add an <img> in the template.