[scribus] Script to generate QR-codes?

Terry Burton tez at terryburton.co.uk
Wed Apr 23 07:55:36 UTC 2014


On 22 April 2014 17:50, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 12:14 PM, Tornóci László wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use scribus 1.4.3 on Fedora 20, and I am quite happy with it. I'm
>> working on an ECG textbook with lots of QR codes in it. (The idea is the
>> readers use their tablet to read the QR code and get to a companion
>> website if they need to look up a term or want to learn more about
>> something). I can generate any QR-code I want (Insert | Barcode), but it
>> is a bit tedious (I need to change the default URL and color). I guess
>> there's a way to write a script that offers a default URL lets me edit
>> it, sets the color and produces the QR code. Problem is, I don't know
>> Python and scribus scripting except they exist. Perhaps a good soul can
>> help me with this...
>>
>
> Currently there is no scripter command to create QR codes.
<...snip...>
> Once Scripter 2 is working we may be able to add a QR code command.

To satisfy the general case I've added "Allow the barcode plugin to be
driven from ScripterNG" to
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Barcode_Plugin_Development


Thanks,

Terry



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