DataMerge with special characters and QR code

[badbernburg]

Hi there, 

I use DataMerge to make business-cards with czech special characters (š, ř, č...) including QR codes for the vcards. To import these characters right, I use UTF-16 encoding for the data source. But when scanning the QR code with my iphone, it just says „No usable data found“. Is there any solution to this?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Ingo

[badbernburg]

Hi Ismael, 

I did not find a solution within InDesign but ended up with https://qrcode.studio. Once in a while my client activates a monthly subscription and generates all necessary QR codes via Bulk Import from XLS, CSV... The exported QR codes then are placed into the InDesign template of the business cards. It's already sometime ago, so I do not remember, but I think that's done with DataMerge, so it's not that much work. As my client has an own Adobe CC account, he does the business cards on his own now 🙂 

Hope that helps

Ingo

[Ismael5C77]

Hi Ingo,

thank you for your answer - in that case, I will make the QRs with Copy and Paste.

KR

Ismael

[HJRosendall1]

You might consider encoding the file as UTF 16 LE no BOM. I have success with complex script data merging with the BOM turned OFF. Many text file editors will do this for you, I use EditPad.