Teach your AI agent to make PDFs
A working Claude Code skill for Markdown → PDF over the API: the folder layout, the script, how to handle the key without baking it into a file, and the two failures that eat an afternoon.
How to convert Markdown to PDF without installing anything
What actually survives the conversion — tables, fenced code, images, footnotes — where page breaks land, and how to automate the whole thing over an API once you are doing it more than once a week.
What you can actually do with the free PDF tools
A tour of all four converters — Markdown, HTML, URL and compression — with the jobs each one is genuinely good at, the limits worth knowing up front, and when you have outgrown them.