PDF Design
/pdf-designIteratively design professional PDF reports and proposals with a live preview loop, write, render, refine.
Install in one command
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pdf-design && curl -fsSL https://eliteaiadvantage.com/skills/pdf-design/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/pdf-design/SKILL.mdThen run /pdf-design in Claude Code.
What it is
PDF Design is for the moment a one-shot PDF generator isn't enough. You need to see the rendered page, change the layout, see it again, change the budget table, see it again. The skill runs an interactive loop: preview the current state, describe a change, regenerate, repeat until the document is right.
It ships with templates for funding proposals, program reports, impact reports, and budget summaries. Brand-aware: CCM red, civic-themed Democracy Day palettes, Montserrat plus Source Sans Pro typography. Built on headless Chromium for the render, which means you get real CSS, page breaks, multi-column layouts, charts, and tables that hold up at print resolution. For polished one-shot PDFs from a single brief, /minimax-pdf is the right call. PDF Design is for the iterative case where the first render is the start, not the end.
Why it's useful
- →Live preview loop, screenshot the current render, describe a change, see it again.
- →Real CSS via headless Chromium, page breaks, multi-column, charts, tables that hold up at print resolution.
- →Templates for funding proposals, program reports, impact reports, and budget summaries.
- →Brand-aware out of the box, CCM red, civic palettes, Montserrat + Source Sans Pro.
- →Sentence-case, left-aligned, print-ready 8.5"x11" defaults that match the way professional reports actually read.
- →Sister to /minimax-pdf, that one is for one-shot polish, this one is for iterative review.
When to use it
- •Designing a funding proposal where the budget table needs three rounds of revision.
- •Iterating on a program report's layout after seeing the first render.
- •Building an impact report with charts and metrics that need visual review.
- •Editing an existing report and previewing each change before committing.
- •Producing a print-ready PDF where the first render is rarely the final.
- •Switching between brand palettes (CCM, Democracy Day, etc.) and seeing the effect immediately.
How it helps with Claude
Without this skill, Claude tends to ship a one-shot PDF and ask you to describe what to change next. PDF Design reshapes the workflow into a screenshot-and-edit loop, render, preview, describe a change, regenerate. You stop trading PDFs back and forth and start designing the document the way a designer actually does, in iterations.