It is important at this stage that any mailto: addresses that don’t have email addresses in the text boxes be deleted (or else the QRcode script will make QRcodes that contain the word “ mailto:” only and clearly won’t work). This will create a large document that will contain one mailto: address per page.From the Data Merge panel, select “Create Merged Document” and merge to a new single page document.Also, align the text box to be in the centre of the page. To make sure that this text will be live but not output in the resulting QRcode, select the textbox containing the field, give the text a paragraph style called “order” – the only change is that it has no fill and stroke. The order text will provide the filename in a later script, but it also must appear in the file but not get in the way of the QRcode graphic that will appear later.One with the word mailto: followed by the field, and another text box with the field. Once the data is available in the Data Merge panel, create two text boxes. Once open, go to the Data Merge panel and select the data source as the recently created txt file. In this example, a file that is business card size has been created (90x55mm). In Adobe InDesign, create a new file that will be used to create the QR codes first.txt” file, and give it a name that reflects that this database is purely for the QRcoding only e.g. Save the Excel file but also save it as a “Windows Formatted Text.In the order column, use the autofill function of Excel to add sequential numbers to this column. Open the Excel file and create two fields in the database in addition to the other fields that need to appear: order, and (the ‘ will disappear in Excel after it is typed, this is intentional).While researching this story I have noticed that Loic will update this script in due course, so stay tuned. This script has featured on Colecandoo before and it is used to split a large InDesign file into single page PDFs with unique names. PDFStyleExporter.jsxbin by Loic Aigon.Modifications to this script are best dealt with by the scripting forum of the Adobe InDesign forum. As this example is creating QRcodes from email addresses, the modification in this example searches an open InDesign document for any textboxes that contain the starting word mailto. The original script (found in the same Adobe Forum link as Jongware’s QRcode.jsxbin) by sergemca searched an open InDesign document for any textboxes that contained the starting words MECARD: and would then convert the contents of the complete textbox into a QR code and then apply formatting such as scaling and rotation. A slight modification of a script supplied by an Adobe Forums user by the handle of sergemca.Jongware did allow other scripts to call upon the QRcode script, and that leads into the next script When this script is used on its own, a user interface appears asking the user for the text to be coded and then a level of error correction. QRcode.jsxbin by Jongware (as previously mentioned).There is a way to automate this task thanks to three scripts The client has supplied the database in Microsoft Excel. The client would like QRcodes that feature the staff member’s email address, and if no email address appears then no QR code needs to appear. The following example is a business card for fictional clothing manufacturer “Mean Jeans”. However, this workaround does the next best thing: Creates lots of QR codes all at once, export them as uniquely named PDFs for reference in a Data Merge, and then use the built-in Data Merge feature from InDesign. So can Adobe InDesign, fresh from the shelf, create a Data Merge with variable QR codes? Apart from the latest release of Adobe InDesign CC 2014, no – not without the use of a third party plug-in. ![]()
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