This is by far the best solution to downloading a pdf from Streamlit! 
Solutions within this discussion are also great but I’ve found the above to be most reliable, straightforward and “streamlit native”. I was able to use this hosted on Heroku to download pdfs to the client.
Thank you @cs.sabya!
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