Nutrient’s make-pdf skill turns Markdown or HTML
into finished PDFs through the DWS Build API, with accessible PDF/UA,
archival PDF/A, watermarks, batch processing, and built-in conformance
verification.
The skill lives in the public Nutrient skills marketplace inside the nutrient-dws plugin. Set NUTRIENT_API_KEY to a Nutrient API key before
running builds; a free trial key is available.
Add the
Nutrient skills marketplace, then install the nutrient-dws plugin. The plugin ID is
different from the make-pdf skill name.
/plugin marketplace add pspdfkit-labs/nutrient-skills/plugin install nutrient-dws@nutrient-skills
The skill sends Markdown or HTML to the Nutrient DWS Build API at
api.nutrient.io/build. Learn more about the
underlying conversion workflow in the HTML to PDF API documentation.
A compliance flag starts a build and a verification step, so the output isn’t accepted on a claim alone.
Use --accessible for PDF/UA output relevant to WCAG, ADA, and EAA accessibility work, including the US ADA Title II deadline in April 2026.
Use --pdfa for any of the seven conformance levels from pdfa-1a through pdfa-3u. The default is pdfa-2b.
Add a diagonal text watermark while generating the PDF.
Every compliance build verifies the finished PDF. The verifier can also inspect any existing PDF or directory of PDFs on its own.
Verification checks the PDF/UA claim marker plus
MarkInfo, StructTreeRoot, Lang,
DisplayDocTitle, and a non-empty title.
Verification checks that the PDF/A identification matches the
conformance level you requested. If veraPDF is installed,
the skill escalates either compliance check to a full conformance audit.
Exit code 3 means the PDF was generated but failed verification.
The skill keeps the output for inspection instead of hiding the failure.
Run repeatable document jobs without silently replacing existing files or stopping the whole batch on one error.
Point --input at a directory and provide
--out. The skill converts every .md and
.html file non-recursively, derives titles from frontmatter,
the first heading, or the filename, and continues after individual errors
before printing a summary.
Existing outputs are never overwritten.
Chain the generated PDF with the sibling
document-processor-api scripts in the same plugin for signing,
redaction, and merging. They use the same
NUTRIENT_API_KEY.
A 22-agent adversarial review found 20 confirmed findings in code that had already passed live end-to-end tests. Those findings resolved to 11 distinct defects, including three silent data-corruption bugs. All were fixed with offline regression checks before release, then the skill was live-verified against the real API by batch converting and verifying three out of three files.
Rendering uses headless Chromium. CSS running headers and target-counter page-numbered tables of contents aren’t supported.
The PDF-to-Markdown skill extracts structured Markdown from PDFs. The remediate-pdf skill fixes existing PDFs, while make-pdf creates new PDFs
from Markdown or HTML.
make-pdf is an AI-agent skill that turns Markdown or HTML into finished PDFs with the Nutrient DWS Build API. It supports accessible PDF/UA output, archival PDF/A output, diagonal text watermarks, batch conversion, and built-in conformance verification.
Choose PDF/UA with --accessible when accessibility is the goal, including work connected to WCAG, ADA, or EAA requirements. Choose PDF/A with --pdfa when long-term archival conformance is the goal. The skill supports all seven levels from pdfa-1a through pdfa-3u and defaults to pdfa-2b.
After every compliance build, the skill checks the PDF/UA claim marker and structure signals — MarkInfo, StructTreeRoot, Lang, DisplayDocTitle, and a non-empty title — or confirms that PDF/A identification matches the requested level. Exit code 3 means the PDF was generated but failed verification, and the file is kept for inspection. If veraPDF is installed, the skill escalates to a full conformance audit. The verifier can also check an existing PDF or directory of PDFs on its own.
Point --input at a directory and provide --out. The skill converts every .md and .html file in that directory non-recursively, with four concurrent builds. It derives each title from frontmatter, the first heading, or the filename; continues after individual errors; prints a summary; and never overwrites an existing output.
Yes. The skill calls the Nutrient DWS Build API at api.nutrient.io/build and reads your key from NUTRIENT_API_KEY. You can start with a free trial API key.
Rendering uses headless Chromium, so CSS running headers and target-counter page-numbered tables of contents aren’t supported.
They work in opposite directions. pdf-to-markdown extracts structured Markdown from an existing PDF, while make-pdf generates a finished PDF from Markdown or HTML.
Generate PDFs through an agent skill or work directly with Nutrient’s document APIs.