Create PDF
Publication-grade documents from your work
Create-pdf produces publication-grade PDFs that read like McKinsey deliverables, Apple product briefs, or letters from the Oval Office. A serif body, sans-serif headings, restrained color palette, and a built-in component library (callouts, metric cards, styled tables, dark feature blocks) carry the design system across every page. Print-first thinking; hierarchy survives black-and-white.
How it works
From Space content to designed PDF in
one command.
Point create-pdf at any analysis, report, or memo. It transforms the content into a designed document with cover page, table of contents, sectioned body, and component-rich layout. The result reads as designed, not generated; built page-by-page on a print-first design system.
Typography that commands respect
A serif body face for extended reading, a sans-serif heading face for authority. Intentional sizing across the hierarchy: a single dominant title size, distinct H1 with accent underline, lighter H2 with thin separator, tertiary H3 in mid-gray. Tight leading because this is print, not web. Justified body, vertical rhythm instead of first-line indent.
Whitespace as architecture
Generous 0.85-1in margins create a frame of authority. Vertical rhythm between sections makes scanning effortless. Components have intentional insets that create visual depth. When in doubt, more whitespace. Crowded signals amateur; spacious signals confidence.
Component library out of the box
Callout boxes, metric cards, styled tables with alternating rows, dark feature blocks for hero moments, two-column comparison cards, conversion ladders, deal lines, pitch blocks. Each component carries the design system so every page lands consistent.
Print-first, color second
Every layout passes the Print Test: hierarchy survives black-and-white laser printing. Color is restraint, not prose. One accent color used architecturally (heading underlines, callout borders, metric numbers), never decoratively. Weight, size, and spacing carry the structure.
Beyond the markdown export
Not "export to PDF."
A designed deliverable that signals the quality of the work.
Any document worth designing
Publication-grade output for every kind of deliverable.
Anywhere a Word doc would land flat, a designed PDF lands serious.
Strategic Memo
Tight, decisive, 4-8 pages. Callouts, one dark block, tables
Analysis Report
Detailed, evidence-rich, 10-20 pages with metric cards and exhibits
Sales Playbook
Practical, actionable, 15-30 pages. Pitch blocks, deal lines, tags
Brainstorm
Progressive, creative, 10-20 pages with idea blocks and pre-mortems
Proposal
Clean, confident, 6-12 pages. Metric cards and a dark CTA
Technical Brief
Precise, structured, 4-10 pages. Code blocks and architecture