QR Code in SVG

[Acorn]

Xara has failed to update the QR Code Widget that I FAILed back in 2015: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...-Scaling-Fails.

While I could delivery a Website Editable Widget, I have chosen to implement one that is not dependent on a Third Party, browser, W10 or indeed Xara.

QR Code.zip
Unzio and run the design file.
The payload of this is trivial.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

Very clean Acorn. Gone in my website-goodies folder

[gwpriester]

What am I missing here. Scan the QR code with your smart phone and it goes to the website I have entered.

To be sure the widget is not very well explained, but it worked for me.

OK. I take that back. At first it went to my website but now it gets co-opted and goes to the Xara website.

Never mind.

[Acorn]

What am I missing here. Scan the QR code with your smart phone and it goes to the website I have entered.
To be sure the widget is not very well explained, but it worked for me.
OK. I take that back. At first it went to my website but now it gets co-opted and goes to the Xara website.
Never mind.

The Xara Widget does not scale and is not vector.

It is an embarrassment that Xara (Professional+, Professional & Premium) has let it fester for so long.

I can replace the current Widget in under seven minutes. Xara has failed in seven years.

Acorn

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Just did:

<XaraWidget><WidgetName>MS Edge - QR Code Generator</WidgetName>
<CreateURL>microsoft-edge:https://qrd.by/#text</CreateURL>
<BrowserWidth>480</BrowserWidth>
<BrowserHeight>128</BrowserHeight>
<WidgetHelp>
Help
</WidgetHelp>
</XaraWidget>

I would have to write the Help Instructions but it works.

[gwpriester]

I can replace the current Widget in under seven minutes. Xara has failed in seven years.

As I have said ad nauseam, Xara would be the app to beat if only they looked at every feature and decided what to keep and what to cut (Bitmap tracer, for example) and focused on making each existing feature better. For example, having an out version of every effect in the Web Animation transitions.
But they don't. They devote too much time to coming up with new features that most will not remember or use and leave orphans of all the really good features they have introduced and forgotten.

There is really no reason for a QR code to be SVG. It is not meant to be scaled but even if it is, if it can still be scanned that is all that matters.

[handrawn]

whilst I agree in principle with what you say gary it is never that simple... a web designer, a graphics designer, a cartoonist, an animator, may all have their own list of what is worth keeping and what is not

I still use the greyscale bitmap tracer in xara [the rest of that tool is pretty grim sure]; if it disappeared then yet more of my workflow would get ported elsewhere.....

[Acorn]

There is really no reason for a QR code to be SVG. It is not meant to be scaled but even if it is, if it can still be scanned that is all that matters.

Gary, the largest the Widget can deliver is 550px. Not very useful for a poster print.

Why would you be happy with a fuzzy looking image? Why waste effort rendering as an image? XDAs are mainly vector based.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Acorn - If ever I have the need for a vector version of a QR code, I will know where to turn.

Or go to QR Code Monkey and create a QR code, SVG with a logo (I used a generic but you can upload your own logo).

[Acorn]

Acorn - If ever I have the need for a vector version of a QR code, I will know where to turn.
Or go to QR Code Monkey and create a QR code, SVG with a logo (I used a generic but you can upload your own logo).

Gary, QRCode monkey is useful and presents a worthy API for advanced generation.

In picking it, you however miss out in creating 3D Stereogram QR Codes:



Only kidding!

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

Ah, I can see it Acorn. It's a Manati!