PDF Export

The problem

You need a .it document as a PDF — for email, print, archive, or legal filing.

The solution

intenttext document.it --pdf --theme corporate

This renders the document to PDF using the print renderer with full layout support: page size, fonts, headers, footers, watermarks, and signature lines.

Basic export

# Default theme
intenttext document.it --pdf

# With a specific theme
intenttext document.it --pdf --theme legal

# Template merge to PDF
intenttext template.it --data data.json --pdf --theme corporate

Theme selection

Choose a theme that matches the document type:

Theme	Best for
corporate	Business documents, reports, proposals
legal	Contracts, agreements, compliance docs
minimal	Clean, simple documents
print	Maximum readability on paper
editorial	Newsletters, articles
warm	Friendly communications, HR docs
technical	Specs, runbooks, architecture docs
dark	Screen reading (not great for print)

intenttext report.it --pdf --theme corporate
intenttext contract.it --pdf --theme legal
intenttext newsletter.it --pdf --theme editorial

PDF metadata

The PDF inherits metadata from the .it file:

.it block	PDF metadata
title:	PDF Title
summary:	PDF Subject
meta: | author: name	PDF Author
meta: | domain: category	PDF Keywords

Print layout in the source

Control the PDF layout from inside the .it file:

page: | size: A4 | margins: 2.54cm
font: | body: Inter | heading: Inter | size: 11pt
header: Company Name | align: left | size: 8pt
footer: Page {page} of {pages} | align: center | size: 8pt
watermark: CONFIDENTIAL | opacity: 0.05

These keywords only affect print/PDF output. They're ignored in standard HTML rendering.

Prerequisites

PDF generation requires Puppeteer:

npm install puppeteer

Puppeteer uses a headless Chromium instance to convert the print HTML to PDF. It's a dev dependency — not needed for parsing, rendering to HTML, or any other operation.

Batch export

Export multiple documents:

# Export all contracts
for f in contracts/*.it; do
  intenttext "$f" --pdf --theme legal
done

# Export all with a template
for f in invoices/*.it; do
  intenttext "$f" --data clients.json --pdf --theme corporate
done

Next steps

• Print-Ready Documents — full print layout configuration
• Watermarks — marking drafts and confidential documents
• Contract — complete contract with PDF-ready layout