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ts-figure-svg
PaperBanana+ — turn a paper's figure brief into a native, editable, publication-grade SVG. Stage 1 runs the OFFICIAL PaperBanana (dwzhu-pku/PaperBanana, pulled by `setup_paperbanana.py`, its own Retriever→Planner→Stylist→Visualizer→Critic pipeline) to produce candidate PNGs. Stage 2 is the "+": Claude LOOKS at the chosen PNG, extracts its DESIGN LANGUAGE (palette, type scale, spacing, idiom) into a style sheet, then redraws the figure FROM THE PAPER'S FACTS as real <rect>/<path>/<text> objects — never tracing pixels, never embedding the PNG. Stage 3 is a measured repair loop: `audit_svg.py` (stdlib, no renderer needed) catches overflow, text-on-text, icons cutting labels, stroke-scaled and canvas-clipped arrowheads, dangling connectors, sub-legible type, font-fallback glyphs, CSS-cascade colour traps and traced path-soup; ≥4 rounds, no upper bound while defects remain. Ends on a vector PDF verified on the real compiled page. Use when a figure must be editable and correct, not merely pretty.
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# ts-figure-svg — PaperBanana+ : design language in, native SVG out
An image model draws a *picture of* a figure. This skill turns that picture into an actual figure: every
label live text, every edge traceable to the method, every box measured.
Two things it is not, both learned the hard way:
- **Not a pixel replica.** Auto-tracing one figure produced 59,430 paths, 10 MB, no editable text — and
it was *still blurry when zoomed*. "No `<image>` element" does not mean "vector".
- **Not the PNG's logic.** Generated figures invent sequential links, fabricate numbers, and garble
labels. Take the PNG's *look*; take the paper's *content*.
## Setup (once)
