You're reading from Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074438

Length 564 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Indesign

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Andy Gardiner

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings

2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables

4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools

5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents

6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further

7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages

8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients

9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles

10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents

11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms

12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries

13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting

14. Index

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Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Generating a QR code in a frame

QR codes are effectively a type of barcode that can be scanned by most modern mobile devices and can convey a variety of useful information. The most common use of QR codes is to provide a quick way of linking to online information, with users being able to point their mobile phone at a QR code on a poster, flyer, or sign, and a website will be opened up on the user’s device.

Despite QR codes being easy to generate in InDesign, I still come across many users that are unaware of this feature and are using third-party apps and online resources to create their QR codes instead. In this recipe, we will look at how to create a QR code, the different types of QR codes available, and even how to customize the color of your QR code. In the next chapter, we will then look at placing external content such as images into your frames.