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Pdf Design

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jamditis·vlatest·writing·MIT

Helps with PDF, design as part of writing, documentation, and content creation workflows.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill pdf-design -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

jamditis

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned jamditis/claude-skills-journalism at 8a047d85f3.

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Commit
8a047d85f3
Manifest
pdf-design/SKILL.md
Scanned
4 files, 483 lines
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About this skill

pdf-design

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to generate, edit, and format PDF documents directly within a workflow. It handles layout adjustments, text insertion, and file assembly without requiring external software.

When to use it

  • Creating standardized reports or invoices from raw data templates.
  • Assembling multi-page documents by merging separate text files into one cohesive PDF.
  • Adjusting margins, fonts, or headers on existing document drafts before final distribution.
  • Generating legal forms or certificates with dynamic variable insertion.

Key capabilities

  • Document Creation: Builds new PDFs from scratch based on provided content and structure.
  • Text Manipulation: Inserts, deletes, or reorders text blocks within the document.
  • Layout Control: Modifies page dimensions, margins, and column structures.
  • File Assembly: Combines multiple source files into a single output document.

Example prompts

  • "Create a 3-page invoice PDF for Client X with line items for services A, B, and C."
  • "Merge these three separate text files into one formatted PDF report with a table of contents."
  • "Update the header and footer of this existing PDF template to include our new company logo and address."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your source text or data is clean and structured before asking the agent to format it, as layout errors can compound quickly. Verify the final output visually if precise graphical alignment (like images or complex tables) is critical, as basic text-based PDF generation may lack fine-grained control over vector graphics.