Update docx, xlsx, pdf, pptx skills with latest improvements

docx: Add commenting and track-changes support. Reorganize OOXML
tooling into a shared office/ module.

pptx: Streamline SKILL.md, add slide-editing and pptxgenjs guides,
bundle html2pptx as a tgz. Reorganize OOXML tooling into a shared
office/ module.

xlsx: Move recalc script into scripts/ and expand it. Add shared
office/ module for OOXML pack/unpack/validate.

pdf: Improve form-filling workflow with new form-structure extraction
script and updated field-info extraction.
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name: pdf
description: Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
description: Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
license: Proprietary. LICENSE.txt has complete terms
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## Overview
This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see reference.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read forms.md and follow its instructions.
This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see REFERENCE.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read FORMS.md and follow its instructions.
## Quick Start
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doc.build(story)
```
#### Subscripts and Superscripts
**IMPORTANT**: Never use Unicode subscript/superscript characters (₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉, ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹) in ReportLab PDFs. The built-in fonts do not include these glyphs, causing them to render as solid black boxes.
Instead, use ReportLab's XML markup tags in Paragraph objects:
```python
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
# Subscripts: use <sub> tag
chemical = Paragraph("H<sub>2</sub>O", styles['Normal'])
# Superscripts: use <super> tag
squared = Paragraph("x<super>2</super> + y<super>2</super>", styles['Normal'])
```
For canvas-drawn text (not Paragraph objects), manually adjust font the size and position rather than using Unicode subscripts/superscripts.
## Command-Line Tools
### pdftotext (poppler-utils)
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| Create PDFs | reportlab | Canvas or Platypus |
| Command line merge | qpdf | `qpdf --empty --pages ...` |
| OCR scanned PDFs | pytesseract | Convert to image first |
| Fill PDF forms | pdf-lib or pypdf (see forms.md) | See forms.md |
| Fill PDF forms | pdf-lib or pypdf (see FORMS.md) | See FORMS.md |
## Next Steps
- For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see reference.md
- For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see reference.md
- If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in forms.md
- For troubleshooting guides, see reference.md
- For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see REFERENCE.md
- For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see REFERENCE.md
- If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md
- For troubleshooting guides, see REFERENCE.md