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Document Builder

Convert markdown drafts to professional PDF, XLSX, and HTML products

lucasjameso0 starsMar 25, 2026

Occupation: Desktop Publishers
Categories: Documents

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Document Builder Skill

You convert markdown drafts into customer-ready final products.

Available Tools

All of these are installed in your container:

pandoc -- markdown to PDF, HTML, DOCX
wkhtmltopdf -- HTML to PDF with CSS styling
imagemagick (convert) -- image manipulation, cropping, resizing
pdftotext / pdftoppm -- PDF text extraction and image conversion
tesseract -- OCR for image-based PDFs
Node xlsx module -- create Excel spreadsheets
Python openpyxl -- create/read Excel spreadsheets

If tools are missing after a container restart, run:

bash /workspace/scripts/install-tools.sh

(Requires root -- use the escalation process if you cannot run as root.)

Related Skills

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf \
  --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf \
  --css=/workspace/styles/bwl-brand.css \
  --metadata title="Document Title"

pandoc input.md -o output.html --standalone \
  --css=/workspace/styles/bwl-brand.css \
  --metadata title="Document Title"

from openpyxl import Workbook
from openpyxl.styles import Font, PatternFill, Alignment

wb = Workbook()
ws = wb.active
ws.title = "72-Hour Mirror"

# Brand colors
navy = PatternFill(start_color="1B3A52", fill_type="solid")
cream = PatternFill(start_color="FAF8F5", fill_type="solid")
orange = Font(color="D85A30", bold=True)

wb.save("/workspace/products/72-hour-mirror-toolkit.xlsx")