PDF Skill

Workflow

1. Render PDF pages to PNGs for visual review (prefer pdftoppm; fall back to asking the user if Poppler is unavailable).
2. Use reportlab to generate new PDFs.
3. Use pdfplumber or pypdf for text extraction; these are unreliable for layout fidelity.
4. After each meaningful update, re-render and verify alignment, spacing, and legibility.

Temp and output conventions

• Use tmp/pdfs/ for intermediate files; delete when done.
• Write final artifacts under output/pdf/ when working in this repo.
• Keep filenames stable and descriptive.

Dependencies (install if missing)

Prefer uv for dependency management.