What problem does it solve?
Creating professional PDFs requires mastering multiple specialized tools and handling complex layout, typography, and formatting details manually. This skill eliminates that friction by providing a unified, production-grade workflow for generating reports, academic papers, creative posters, and processing existing PDFs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Four Production Lines: Report (structured documents via ReportLab), Creative (visual design via JSON Blueprint → Playwright), Academic (scholarly work via LaTeX/Tectonic), and Process (manipulate existing PDFs: extract, merge, split, fill forms, convert).
- Intelligent Routing: Auto-detects document type, emoji presence, CJK content, and page size to route to the optimal pipeline.
- Design System: Includes comprehensive typesetting assets for covers, charts, typography, and overflow prevention across all three rendering routes.
- Use Case: A user needing a quarterly business report with charts, a thesis with mathematical equations, or a batch of invoices processed from scanned PDFs can all be handled through this single skill.
Quick Start
Use the pdf skill to generate a professional quarterly business report with embedded charts and a styled cover page from the provided sales data and analysis text.