Anvil.pdf No attribute PdfRenderer

Anvil Q&A
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Hi Anvil Team,

I’m loving the new PDF functionality so far. I did my testing of it via a Jupyter Notebook and the anvil uplink feature. The following two lines would generate my pdf file as expected and save it to my computer.

pdf = anvil.pdf.PdfRenderer(scale=0.75, page_size='Letter').render_form("OrderReview",order_id=2001070)

anvil.media.write_to_file(pdf, "OrderReview.pdf")

When I try to use this line on the server, I receive the following error message.

pdf = anvil.pdf.PdfRenderer(scale=0.75, page_size='Letter').render_form("OrderReview",order_id=2001070)

AttributeError: module ‘anvil.pdf’ has no attribute ‘PdfRenderer’

Why is the anvil.pdf module acting differently on the server? How do I get to the PdfRenderer function there?

Thank you!

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Hi there. The following works for me:

from anvil.pdf import PDFRenderer

Could it be a spelling issue?

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I’m just using “import anvil.pdf” in both places (on the anvil server and via my uplink). I’ll test out some variations shortly on the server side.

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Yes, that is totally fine in terms of importing. I believe that the issue is the capitalization. Try using PDFRenderer (i.e., with the correct letter case).

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You’re correct! I’m not sure why that didn’t blow up locally though. Either way, thank you for the tip!

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Excellent Solution… Would have taken me days to figure this out…