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I wrote a solution in 2010 that used headless Firefox with some plugins to generate a PDF and then had the graphic designer write print CSSes. It was driven by

I wrote a solution in 2010 that used headless Firefox with some plugins to generate a PDF and then had the graphic designer write print CSSes. It was driven by Perl and was a convenient way for non-programmers to design forms. Unfortunately, that server and software stack is still around and still in production.

znpy 1y ago
> Unfortunately, that server and software stack is still around and still in production. that means you did a good job.
- Dwedit 1y ago
  2010-era Firefox is probably plagued by security holes.
  - detaro 1y ago
    If your print-file generation code tries to exploit the headless browser you use to turn its outputs into PDF something has gone very wrong already.
  - trollbridge 1y ago
    My biggest concern would be the Perl libraries I used to sanitise the input. I checked and none of them have any CVEs, though.