minimax-pdf_skill

Overview

This skill converts HTML into print-quality, searchable PDFs for reports, papers, and structured documents. It enforces a stable pagination model on Linux runtimes and preserves links, images, and section structure for citation-safe long-form output. Apply this skill before generating PDF deliverables from HTML to guarantee predictable layout and text fidelity.

How this skill works

The skill validates input HTML against a conversion fidelity checklist, enforces rendering safety rules, and calls the single permitted conversion entrypoint html_to_pdf with preserve_links=true. It applies page-model CSS, overflow guards, and explicit-markup numbering patterns, and runs image/anchor/link gates to ensure the output is searchable, paginated, and citation-consistent. Charts must be supplied as pre-rendered images and cover/page rules are applied according to the requested variant.

When to use it

• Finalizing a report, paper, or manual that must print consistently on Linux PDF pipelines
• Transforming or translating existing HTML content into a citation-safe PDF
• Producing documents that require searchable/selectable text (no screenshot fallbacks)
• Preparing PDFs that need strict page numbering, TOC with page targets, or footnote behavior
• Before any automated PDF export to ensure images, links, and anchors are preserved

Best practices

• Provide static, landscape-oriented images for all charts and avoid runtime chart libraries
• Keep explicit captions and labels in markup (data-caption attributes) instead of CSS counters
• Preserve source section order and only add a cover page if explicitly requested
• Run the three-pass image validation and enforce preserve_links=true on conversion
• Use the supplied overflow-guard CSS patterns and avoid break-inside on large containers

Example use cases

• Convert a multi-section HTML research manuscript into an IEEE-style PDF with preserved references and TOC
• Translate an existing HTML report and produce a paginated PDF while preserving all hyperlinks
• Merge several HTML chapters into one document and export a single, searchable PDF for distribution
• Prepare a thesis-quality PDF with proper figure/table numbering and footnote placement
• Produce a corporate whitepaper PDF where charts are pre-rendered images and layout is print-first