Crafting books and documents?

[King_Namazu]

So character I'm going to be playing is very bookish and I'd like the ability to write useful official documents such as confidentiality agreements, certificates, letters, journals, consent forms and other binding contracts. I am however stuck on deciding what skill that would fall under either craft or linguistics as both make something however linguistics is for the creation of forgeries.

[Java Man]

Proffesion: lawyer?

[King_Namazu]

Proffesion is more the act of doing well at a job vs craft is to make something which is what I'm looking to do

[Rennaivx]

The best fit might be Artistry - it's a skill introduced in Pathfinder Unchained that's essentially Craft for when intangible content is the goal. (Think story-writing vs. bookbinding; both result in a book, but Craft (bookbinding) would cover the creation of the physical collection of pages while Artistry (fiction writing) would cover the creation of the story written in the book.) That said, though, if your GM doesn't want to pull in Unchained material, Linguistics would probably work just fine - it's for work with words in general, not just for forgeries. (That's just its most common PC use, since most PCs don't aspire to be barristers.)

[Joey Cote]

Realistically, its still lawyer if your crafting any kind of official document, the ability to just copy or write out documents would be that of a scribe, which again, would be a profession. Since everyone in Pathfinder can read and write there really isn't any need for scribes. There is a lot of overlap between profession and crafting skills. Notice there is no crafting skill for cooking or brewing?

If you are doing some kind of calligraphy/illuminating that would be craft-calligraphy (which is actually in the list) or maybe painting for illuminating.

[Azothath]

Craft skill wrote:

A Craft skill is specifically focused on creating something. If nothing is created by the endeavor, it probably falls under the heading of a Profession skill.

you can always take Profession(Lawyer/Barrister) and Knowledge(Chelish Law) {or your location}.

Craft is about producing something, a thing. Contracts are about the arrangement of the words in a manner proscribed and recognized by the local legal system so the meaning is well understood. So contracts and legal documents are about the meaning, not the paper and ink they are comprised of.
The Rule of Law tends to be local or by country. So in a way Knowledge(local) would tell you what's commonly accepted but not anything as specific as legalese...
If you want to create beautiful documents, then Craft(calligraphy) and Profession(Artist) are good choices.

you'll notice I suggest taking two skills, a Craft and associated Profession. The reason is you want to be professional about it and make money rather than being just a craftsmen. You can decide later as you progress what you want to be better at (where skill points go).

[King_Namazu]

mkay so Lawyer/barrister profession is what I'm looking for then.