Turn a description into a shareable, editable PDF — invoices, certificates, reports, resumes.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Pdfmakerapi MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Turn a description into a shareable, editable PDF — invoices, certificates, reports, resumes.
Works with Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, VS Code, ChatGPT, and any other MCP client. It's a thin client of the public API at https://api.pdfmakerapi.com, so it needs no account or credentials of its own.
PDFMakerAPI is a PDF template builder and PDF generation API. Instead of hard-coding documents or wrestling with HTML-to-PDF converters that break when your content changes, you design a reusable template once in a visual, no-code editor — placing text, tables, images, and dynamic fields exactly where you want them — then feed it data to produce a finished, editable PDF.
Configuration is passed through the environment: PDFMAKERAPI_BASE_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by GerardoBarrera; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdfmakerapi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pdfmakerapi/mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PDFMAKERAPI_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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