LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 262 installs a week from npm.
layoutbridge-light – book typesetting in Adobe® InDesign® via MCP: text, styles, TOC, PDF, EPUB
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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add layoutbridge-light -- npx -y layoutbridge-light
{
"mcpServers": {
"layoutbridge-light": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"layoutbridge-light"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.layoutbridge-light]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "layoutbridge-light"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"layoutbridge-light": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"layoutbridge-light"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"layoutbridge-light": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"layoutbridge-light"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_KEY (Licence key for this workstation (from the purchase receipt). Alternatively put the key into a file and set LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_FILE), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_FILE (Path to a file containing the licence key. Used when LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_KEY is not set; default location is the application data folder of layoutbridge-light), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LOG_LEVEL (Call log detail: off, basic (default; no document text, user name removed from paths) or full (unfiltered, for a support case only)), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_INSTANCE_NAME (Optional label for this workstation's licence activation. Default is a random identifier without personal data), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_CONFIG (Optional path to a config.json with house defaults (e.g. PDF export preset, tracking warning threshold, minimum image resolution)).
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