qr-code-for-illustrator

Generate QRCodes in Adobe Illustrator and Indesign via ExtendScript.

Usage example

//@include 'QRCode.js'

var qr = new QRCode({
  text: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.',
  container: doc,
  position: [0, 0], // [left, top], measured in points
  width: 72, // measured in points, includes outer border
  margin: 4, // outer border, measured in "squares"
  joinSquares: true, // whether to unite the squares into compound path
});

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Installation

Step 1: Download the script files

To install this script, first download this repository (zipped):

Step 2: Place the scripts in the appropriate folder

Expand the zipped file and move the downloaded scripts to Illustrator's scripts folder.

See How To Install Scripts in Adobe Illustrator.

Update: now works in Indesign, too

Why would you do this? Indesign has native functions to generate QR Codes already!

Two reasons:

1. You have more control over the QR Code, eg. type and error correction level, even shape of squares if you edit the drawSquare functions.

2. A forum user discovered a bug where the create QR Code methods crashed Indesign when called from within an event handler. I remembered I had written this port for Illustrator and it wasn't much extra work to write some functions to draw into Indesign.

Acknowledgements

• https://github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs/tree/master
• https://kazuhikoarase.github.io/qrcode-generator/js/demo/