PDF Create

Create PDFs from documents & data (pdf-create)

Create PDFs from documents & data

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Creation. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Generate a brand new professional PDF from text, Markdown, HTML, images or tabular data.

Operations

• plain text
• Markdown (subset)
• HTML (subset)
• images
• structured rows
• reports
• invoices
• cover pages
• tables
• lists
• headings
• headers/footers
• page numbers
• bookmarks
• metadata
• TOC placeholder

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.create:create_pdf / create_from_markdown / create_from_text / create_from_html / create_from_images / create_report_from_rows

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: reportlab platypus (vector, templated)
• Fallback: PyMuPDF insert_text (simple docs)

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

openable; page_count>=1; metadata valid; pages render

Related skills

pdf-read, pdf-export, pdf-inspect, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Create a 3-page report from this JSON of quarterly sales."
• "Turn README.md into a clean PDF."
• "Make an invoice PDF from these line items."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.