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makesPDF
Accessible, archive-grade PDFs rendered from Markdown or AI.
A PDF rendering API built for agents and pipelines. Accessible, archive-grade PDFs rendered from Markdown or template DSL. PDF/A-2A + PDF/UA-1 compliant, validated against veraPDF every release.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built makesPDF because generating PDFs programmatically is still weirdly painful. Most tools either spin up a headless browser (slow, heavy, fragile) or hand you a low-level drawing API where you're positioning text by coordinates. And almost none of them produce PDFs that are actually accessible.
makesPDF is a PDF API built for developers and AI agents:
- 📝 Markdown → PDF in one call. Tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, Mermaid diagrams, footnotes, GitHub-style theming — all fast, no browser.
- 🎨 A compact template DSL for invoices, receipts, quotes, reports — render with your data via a single POST. ~75–95% fewer tokens than raw JSON, so it's cheap for LLMs to author.
- ♿ Accessible by default. Every PDF comes out PDF/A-2A + PDF/UA-1 dual-compliant — proper tags, structure tree, alt text. There's even an /enhance endpoint that takes an existing non-compliant PDF and remediates it.
- 🤖 Agent-native. There's a shareable skill file, an LLM-friendly API, and even pay-per-render via crypto wallets (x402) so an autonomous agent can generate a PDF without a signup flow.
No headless Chrome. No fonts-don't-embed surprises. No "wait, is this even screen-reader readable?"
It's live and I'd genuinely love your feedback — what would make this a no-brainer for your stack?
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About makesPDF on Product Hunt
“Accessible, archive-grade PDFs rendered from Markdown or AI.”
makesPDF was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #104 on the daily leaderboard. A PDF rendering API built for agents and pipelines. Accessible, archive-grade PDFs rendered from Markdown or template DSL. PDF/A-2A + PDF/UA-1 compliant, validated against veraPDF every release.
makesPDF was featured in Productivity (653.8k followers), API (98.3k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (471k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 250k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted makesPDF?
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