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PDF Table Layout Engine

Render structured table data into a paginated PDF with repeating headers and zebra rows

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-table-layout-engine' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"tableData":"[{\"Product\":\"Widget A\",\"Qty\":2,\"Price\":19.5,\"Total\":39},{\"Product\":\"Widget B\",\"Qty\":1,\"Price\":9.9,\"Total\":9.9}]","columns":"Product, Qty, Price, Total","title":"Quarterly Sales","subtitle":"Generated sample","pageSize":"A4","orientation":"landscape","fontSize":11,"margin":16,"repeatHeader":true,"zebraRows":true}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-table-layout-engine

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
tableData	textarea	Yes	—
columns	text	No	—
title	text	No	—
subtitle	text	No	—
pageSize	select	No	—
orientation

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pdf-table-layout-engine": {
      "name": "pdf-table-layout-engine",
      "description": "Render structured table data into a paginated PDF with repeating headers and zebra rows",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pdf-table-layout-engine",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pdf-table-layout-engine",
    "arguments": {
  "tableData": "[{\"Product\":\"Widget A\",\"Qty\":2,\"Price\":19.5,\"Total\":39},{\"Product\":\"Widget B\",\"Qty\":1,\"Price\":9.9,\"Total\":9.9}]",
  "columns": "Product, Qty, Price, Total",
  "title": "Quarterly Sales",
  "subtitle": "Generated sample",
  "pageSize": "A4",
  "orientation": "landscape",
  "fontSize": 11,
  "margin": 16,
  "repeatHeader": true,
  "zebraRows": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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