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PDF Creator (pdf-creator)

Turns markdown into polished PDFs with CJK-safe fonts, selectable themes, and a mandatory page-by-page visual check.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate★ 1,323⑂ 212AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

Converts markdown files into print- or phone-ready PDFs, handling the details that manual pandoc/Chrome pipelines silently get wrong:

  • Theme system: default (formal A4), warm-terra (training/course material), mobile (148mm page, large type for phone reading and chat sharing), plus cjk-auto and warm-terra-menu variants
  • Content-aware backend: CJK text routes to Chrome (avoids the weasyprint OpenType subsetting bug that blanks characters in macOS Preview / Adobe Reader); plain Latin text uses weasyprint for speed
  • Chrome header/footer suppression: no more filename, date, or URL printed on every page
  • CJK typography layers: fixed table layout, no mid-character breaks, plus a post-render lint that flags orphan characters and broken bracket pairs
  • Mandatory visual self-check: renders each page to PNG in a temp folder so the agent can read and compare against the markdown source
  • Batch mode: batch_convert.py applies one theme across many files

Who it's for

  • Anyone who drafts contracts, reports, or proposals in markdown but ships PDFs
  • Trainers who need both an A4 handout and a phone-friendly version of the same deck
  • Teams working with Chinese/Japanese/Korean text who keep hitting tofu boxes and squeezed table columns
  • Doc maintainers converting whole folders of markdown into consistently styled PDFs

Examples

  1. Formal contract: "Convert contract.md to a clean A4 PDF" → default theme, then inspect the generated page PNGs for table overflow
  2. Two audiences: "Give me a printable and a phone version of the workshop outline" → run once with warm-terra, once with mobile
  3. Bulk export: batch_convert.py *.md --theme warm-terra --output-dir ./pdfs --no-preview for an entire docs directory

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the daymade-docs/pdf-creator folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/pdf-creator/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-docs/pdf-creator ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Install prerequisites: Python 3 and Google Chrome. On macOS run brew install poppler for pdftoppm (used for page previews); brew install pandoc is also recommended.
  2. Install uv (recommended): curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh — the skill's commands use uv run --with weasyprint. Without uv, run pip install weasyprint instead.
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git
  4. Copy the skill: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-docs/pdf-creator ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify: restart Claude Code and ask "use the pdf-creator skill to turn this markdown into a PDF".
  6. List themes: python ~/.claude/skills/pdf-creator/scripts/md_to_pdf.py --list-themes dummy.md
  7. If glyphs look wrong: install the referenced CJK fonts, force --backend chrome, or copy a file in themes/ and swap the font-family for fonts available on your OS to create your own theme.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT