PDF It MCP server

pdf-it

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and Claude Code skill that turns markdown into PDFs that look like they were made on purpose. Cover page, table of contents, code blocks that hold across page breaks, page-numbered footer. One command from your Claude session to a file you can send to a client.

Fonts ship inside the package, so every PDF looks the same on every machine. Nothing to install, nothing to configure.

Why this exists

Every Claude Code research session ends the same way: a wall of useful markdown and no clean way to turn it into a PDF a person would actually want to read.

Chrome print: takes 30 seconds, output looks like a Word doc. Manual HTML conversion: 10 minutes per document. Pandoc: works but defaults look like a 2008 academic paper. None of it produces an artifact you would send to a client.

pdf-it is one command. The output is designed by default.

Install

npm install -g pdf-it-mcp

Or run on demand with npx pdf-it-mcp.

Requirements

• Node.js 20 or newer
• Nothing else to install. The renderer and fonts ship inside the package.

Configure

Claude Desktop

Edit claudedesktopconfig.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-it": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pdf-it-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add pdf-it -- npx -y pdf-it-mcp

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the same shape as Claude Desktop.

Cline / Continue / Zed / Goose

Standard MCP config. Same npx -y pdf-it-mcp command.

Use

In any Claude session connected to the server, ask:

Save this as a PDF

Or any of these phrasings: export as PDF, make a PDF report from this, turn this into a PDF, /pdf. The skill picks up the request and routes it through pdf-it. The output lands in ~/Documents/pdf-it/ by default.

Tools

generate_pdf parameters

Templates

Skill

This package ships with a Claude Code skill at SKILL.md. Trigger phrases the skill responds to:

• save this as PDF
• export as PDF
• make a PDF report from this
• turn this into a PDF
• generate a PDF
• /pdf

See SKILL.md for the full skill spec.

Output

By default PDFs are written to ~/Documents/pdf-it/{slug}-{timestamp}.pdf. Pass output_path to override.

Design

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.