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PDF Generation

Build a PDF as flowing pages or as absolute flexbox placement, measure text before you commit to it, and rasterise the result to look at it.

by mcp-z ↗Document Conversion, PDF & TranslationCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

text-measure and pdf-image close the loop that usually breaks when a model generates a PDF blind.

A caller can ask what a string will occupy before placing it, and then look at the rendered page instead of asserting it came out right — which is the difference between generating a layout and confirming one. The genuine decision is upstream of that: pdf-document owns sequential content and reflows on its own, pdf-layout fixes every item to coordinates on a named page, and choosing wrong means fighting the tool all the way down the document. pdf-resume sidesteps the choice for the one format where the structure is already agreed.

What it is

A PDF generation server exposing 5 tools: a flowing document builder, an absolutely positioned layout builder, a JSON Resume renderer, a text measurement call, and a PDF-to-PNG renderer.

What you get

  • Documents that paginate themselves: pdf-document flows content top to bottom and breaks pages when they fill, with pageBreak forcing a break, divider drawing a horizontal rule and spacer opening vertical space, over title, author, font, color, markdown and pageSetup.
  • Placement decided by you instead: pdf-layout positions items absolutely through Yoga flexbox, each item naming the page it belongs to so pages are created as needed, with groups acting as flexbox containers.
  • A resume path that skips layout entirely: pdf-resume renders JSON Resume input with sections, styling, layout, font, color and pageSize, breaking pages automatically.
  • Dimensions before rendering: text-measure returns exact width and height for a given font, size and string, measuring width as a single-line natural width and folding wrapping into the height once a width constraint is supplied.
  • A way to see what was produced: pdf-image renders pages to PNG — one page, a list such as [1, 3, 5], or all of them — with viewportScale setting size, where 0.25 gives a thumbnail around 150px wide.

Requirements

No credentials are configured. pdf-image takes the location of an existing PDF in pdfPath, so the generated file has to be somewhere the server can open it again.

Setup effort

One command — npx -y @mcp-z/mcp-pdf

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