minimax-pdf
Use this skill when visual quality and design identity matter for a PDF. CREATE (generate from scratch): "make a PDF", "generate a report", "write a proposal", "create a resume", "beautiful PDF", "professional document", "cover page", "polished PDF", "client-ready document". FILL (complete form fields): "fill in the form", "fill out this PDF", "complete the form fields", "write values into PDF", "what fields does this PDF have". REFORMAT (apply design to an existing doc): "reformat this document
Security Assessment
About minimax-pdf
The minimax-pdf skill is a document-generation and PDF-formatting workflow designed for situations where visual quality, branding, and presentation matter as much as the content itself. It supports three primary workflows: creating polished PDFs from scratch, filling form fields in existing PDF documents, and reformatting or re-styling existing documents into professionally designed outputs. The skill is built around a token-based design system that automatically applies consistent typography, spacing, color, and layout decisions across every page, producing print-ready documents with a unified visual identity.
The skill includes multiple document styles and visual themes tailored for different document types, including reports, proposals, resumes, portfolios, academic papers, editorials, posters, and magazine-style layouts. Its pipeline combines several processing stages for generating covers, rendering body content, and merging final PDF outputs. It also supports customizable design controls such as accent colors, cover backgrounds, abstract text blocks, and optional cover images. For PDF form workflows, the skill can inspect form fields and write values into existing PDFs. In reformatting scenarios, it can parse an existing document and then route it through the full document-generation pipeline to apply a new visual style.
This skill is intended for professionals and teams who need presentation-quality PDFs for client delivery, publishing, hiring, academic, or internal business purposes. Common use cases include generating strategy reports, proposals, resumes, portfolios, branded company documents, and visually refined PDFs from Markdown or text content. It is especially useful for designers, consultants, agencies, operations teams, and knowledge workers who require documents that are both functional and visually polished rather than simple exported PDFs.
FAQ
What types of PDF workflows does minimax-pdf support?
The skill supports three workflows: creating new PDFs from scratch, filling form fields in existing PDFs, and reformatting or re-styling existing documents into professionally designed layouts.
Can I customize the appearance of generated PDFs?
Yes. The skill supports customizable accent colors, cover background colors, cover images, and abstract text blocks. It also includes multiple predefined document styles and visual identities.
What document types are available?
Supported document types include report, proposal, resume, portfolio, academic, general, minimal, stripe, diagonal, frame, editorial, magazine, darkroom, terminal, and poster layouts.
How does the skill decide between CREATE and REFORMAT modes?
If there is an existing document to start from, the workflow should use REFORMAT. If the document is being generated from scratch without an existing source document, it should use CREATE.
Does the skill support filling existing PDF forms?
Yes. The FILL workflow can inspect PDF form fields and write values into them using dedicated form-processing scripts.
All Files
12 filesInstall minimax-pdf
Quick Setup:
- Copy the skill folder to
.claude/skills/ - Claude will automatically detect and use the skill
Repository
minimax-ai/skills