[scribus] Script to generate QR-codes?

Tornóci László tornoci.laszlo at med.semmelweis-univ.hu
Tue Apr 22 18:06:38 UTC 2014


On 04/22/2014 06:57 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 12:50 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>
>> I have in the past written scripts which use the line generating
>> capabilities of Scribus to create barcodes. While in theory one could
>> also do this for QR codes, it's obviously more complex. There may be
>> some python scripts which do this, so you might investigate.
>>
> and so:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/qrcode
>
> In theory, one might even use this from within Scribus.
> At any rate, you could use this outside of Scribus, creating a series of
> URL codes, then import these to image frames. Would certainly be cool if
> you could do this in a Scribus!
>
> I may give this a whirl just for the intellectual interest.
>
> Greg

For those interested: I just realized there's a linux package "qrencode" 
that you can use from the command line to generate QR codes (in many 
formats including SVG that you can import into scribus). This looks like 
the best option, if you want to use lots of QR codes in scribus.

						Yours: Laszlo




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