diff --git a/app/Models/Design.php b/app/Models/Design.php
index 1b0bf79a8347..32c677357464 100644
--- a/app/Models/Design.php
+++ b/app/Models/Design.php
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class Design extends BaseModel
         'name',
         'design',
         'is_active',
-        'is_template',
+        // 'is_template',
     ];
 
     public function company()
diff --git a/app/Services/PdfMaker/PdfMaker.php b/app/Services/PdfMaker/PdfMaker.php
index 00da860c3877..701222bf359e 100644
--- a/app/Services/PdfMaker/PdfMaker.php
+++ b/app/Services/PdfMaker/PdfMaker.php
@@ -85,7 +85,11 @@ class PdfMaker
 
                 $loader = new \Twig\Loader\FilesystemLoader(storage_path());
                 $twig = new \Twig\Environment($loader);
-                $template = $twig->createTemplate($template);
+
+                $string_extension = new \Twig\Extension\StringLoaderExtension();
+                $twig->addExtension($string_extension);
+               
+                $template = $twig->createTemplate(html_entity_decode($template));
                 $template = $template->render($this->options);
 
                 $f = $this->document->createDocumentFragment();
@@ -110,14 +114,14 @@ class PdfMaker
     /**
      * Final method to get compiled HTML.
      *
-     * @param bool $final @deprecated // is it? i still see it being called elsewhere
+     * @param bool $final
      * @return mixed
      */
     public function getCompiledHTML($final = false)
     {
 
         $html = $this->document->saveHTML();
-        nlog($html);
+        // nlog($html);
         return str_replace('%24', '$', $html);
     }
 }
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 45d160ff2958..5520a24c5d38 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
         "symfony/mailgun-mailer": "^6.1",
         "symfony/postmark-mailer": "^6.1",
         "turbo124/beacon": "^1.5",
-        "twig/twig": "^3.0",
+        "twig/twig": "^3",
         "twilio/sdk": "^6.40",
         "webpatser/laravel-countries": "dev-master#75992ad",
         "wepay/php-sdk": "^0.3",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index e0e6996e1fc7..2ac417355fe4 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "a3cef8412df6b0cc9371807991ab699a",
+    "content-hash": "08bc4729962b495b68162a069269f74f",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "adrienrn/php-mimetyper",