MCP server that turns HTML or Markdown into a styled PDF, or renders a public URL to PDF, and returns a download link. Markdown ships with a clean default stylesheet, so agent-written documents look right without any design work.

Install

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mintpdf": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mintpdf-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your MCP client, then ask for a document:

Summarise this thread as a one-page brief with page numbers and give me a PDF.

Tools

Tool	Input	Returns
`generate_pdf`	`html` or `markdown`, plus options	download URL, valid one hour
`pdf_from_url`	public `url`, plus options	download URL, valid one hour

Options: format (A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5), landscape, margin, headerText, footerText, pageNumbers.

Limits and keys

Works with no key at all for a few renders a day. A free key (email only, no card) raises it to 100 a month:

curl -X POST https://mintpdf.dev/v1/keys \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"email":"you@example.com"}'

Then set it in your MCP config:

"env": { "MINTPDF_API_KEY": "pm_..." }

Self-hosting

Point the package at your own instance with MINTPDF_BASE_URL. The server itself is MIT-licensed and self-hostable: https://github.com/TrendTweekers/mintpdf