Canvora PDF Document

Create multi-page PDF documents with Canvora — brochures, reports, one-pagers, company profiles, proposals, menus, catalogs, ebooks, worksheets and cheat sheets. Use when the user wants a PDF, a printable document, a brochure, a lead magnet, or anything paginated rather than a social post.

Multi-page documents and PDFs

Canvora has a dedicated document mode: document_page runs through the structured pipeline with print layout rather than slide layout — margins, reading order, and typography built for a page, not a screen. This is the format behind "make me a brochure / report / company profile / proposal / menu / catalog / lead magnet". Nobody guesses the ID, so you have to know it.

Setup and credits: see the canvora skill.

Format map

Want	Format	Notes
A multi-page document of any kind	document_page	3:4, 816×1056 (US Letter portrait). Carousel format — --slides = number of pages. 15 credits per page.
A single-page one-pager	one_pager	816×1056, single image, 10 credits
An exec summary page	executive_summary	816×1056
A cheat sheet / reference card	cheat_sheet	816×1056
A worksheet / workbook page	worksheet	3:4 1200×1600
An ebook / report cover	ebook_cover	3:4 1600×2133
A visual mind map	mind_map	4:3 1600×1200

Rule: more than one page → document_page with --slides. Exactly one page → the specific single-page format. Cover + pages → ebook_cover in the same call as document_page.

Intake

1. What is the document? (brochure, report, proposal, menu, profile…) — this goes into the brief verbatim; the pipeline uses it to pick the layout language.
2. How many pages? If unknown: brochure 4, company profile 6, report 8, menu 2. Max 10 per call — for longer, run consecutive calls and merge at export.
3. Source? A written doc or PDF is ideal (--file-url), otherwise --input for their copy or --idea for a topic.
4. Brand kit? Documents are the format where an off-brand result is most obvious. --brand + --logo.

The canonical runs

bash

# Company brochure from existing copy
ID=$(canvora generate --input "$COMPANY_COPY" \
  --format document_page --slides document_page=6 \
  --brand $BRAND --logo --style corporate | head -1)
canvora status "$ID" --json    # repeat every ~30s until completed

# Report PDF from a source document
ID=$(canvora generate --file-url https://example.com/annual-review.pdf \
  --format document_page --slides document_page=8 \
  --brand $BRAND --logo | head -1)
canvora status "$ID" --json

# Lead magnet: cover + 4 pages in one generation
ID=$(canvora generate --idea "The 2026 SEO audit checklist for small e-commerce stores" \
  --format ebook_cover,document_page --slides document_page=4 \
  --brand $BRAND --logo --cta | head -1)
canvora status "$ID" --json

# Restaurant menu, exact prices preserved (2 pages — short enough for --wait)
canvora generate --input "$MENU_TEXT" --exact \
  --format document_page --slides document_page=2 --wait --json

Documents are 15 credits per page — say the total in the same message as the run (a 6-page brochure = 90), announcing it rather than asking permission. When the page count came from the defaults above rather than from the user, confirm that number with them first. Anything over 2 pages is 3+ outputs, so fire and poll status instead of --wait: your harness likely kills a shell command at 120s while the pages carry on rendering server-side. Never re-run generate after a timeout; that starts a second, separate job. See the canvora skill's "Long runs" section.

Things that ruin documents (avoid)

• Paraphrasing the source. Documents carry facts: prices, names, figures, legal lines. Pass the file or use --input, and add --exact whenever the wording is not yours to change.
• Treating pages like slides. Don't ask for a "hook" page. Documents open with a title/cover and proceed in reading order.
• Forgetting the CTA page. Brochures, proposals and lead magnets should end on one → --cta.
• Landscape. document_page is portrait by design. If they want landscape, they want a deck — use the pitch-deck skill.

Delivering the PDF

The user asked for a PDF, not for images. Finish the job:

• MCP clients: export_visuals(generation_id, format: "pdf") returns the assembled multi-page PDF. This is the correct final step.
• CLI-only: canvora download <id> --dir ./doc saves the pages in order — then tell the user to export the PDF from their Canvora dashboard, because the CLI has no export command.

Either way, sort by sortOrder first — page order is the whole point.

Quality checklist

• document_page with --slides = page count (not separate calls)
• Source passed directly; --exact when facts/prices/legal text must survive
• Brand kit + logo applied
• --cta on anything persuasive
• Delivered as an actual PDF (MCP export) or the export route explained