What is Md Pdf Mcp

md-pdf-mcp is a Markdown to PDF conversion MCP server that utilizes VS Code’s markdown styling and Python’s ReportLab to create beautifully styled PDF documents from Markdown files.

Use cases

Use cases include converting lecture notes into PDFs for distribution, summarizing project notes for team meetings, and generating styled documentation for software projects.

How to use

To use md-pdf-mcp, you need to install it and configure it in your Claude Desktop application. You can add notes using the ‘add-note’ tool and summarize them with the ‘summarize-notes’ prompt.

Key features

Key features include a custom note storage system with a note:// URI scheme, the ability to add and summarize notes, and the generation of styled PDFs from Markdown content.

Where to use

md-pdf-mcp can be used in various fields such as education for creating study materials, content creation for generating reports, and documentation for producing user manuals.

md-pdf-mcp (Markdown to PDF MCP Server)

Convert Markdown to gorgeously styled PDFs using VS Code’s markdown styling and Python’s ReportLab.

Components

Resources

The server implements a simple note storage system with:

• Custom note:// URI scheme for accessing individual notes
• Each note resource has a name, description and text/plain mimetype

Prompts

The server provides a single prompt:

• summarize-notes: Creates summaries of all stored notes
  • Optional “style” argument to control detail level (brief/detailed)
  • Generates prompt combining all current notes with style preference

Tools

The server implements one tool:

• add-note: Adds a new note to the server
  • Takes “name” and “content” as required string arguments
  • Updates server state and notifies clients of resource changes

Configuration

[TODO: Add configuration details specific to your implementation]

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "md-pdf-mcp": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/path/to/your/local/md-pdf-mcp", "run", "md-pdf-mcp" ] } } ```

Published Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "md-pdf-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "md-pdf-mcp" ] } } ```

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

2. Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

3. Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You’ll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

• Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
• Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging
experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/seanivore/Development/md-pdf-mcp run md-pdf-mcp

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.