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August 15, 2020
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Generate Business card QR code by data merge

  • August 15, 2020
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How to generate business card QR code by data merge in InDesign?

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Correct answer patMorita

Colin wrote a good tutorial here: https://indesignsecrets.com/data-merge-qr-codes-explained.php

 

It does explain Qrcodes by data merge but not especially business card.

Still if you combine the tutorial above with this one you will achieve your goal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#vCard_2.1

 

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Inspiring
August 15, 2020

Colin wrote a good tutorial here: https://indesignsecrets.com/data-merge-qr-codes-explained.php

 

It does explain Qrcodes by data merge but not especially business card.

Still if you combine the tutorial above with this one you will achieve your goal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#vCard_2.1

 

Known Participant
June 16, 2023

Has this actually been solved where it works? I am going through the same thing, client wants to create a business card through a QR code. I am going through both links Colin put up but not able to figure out how to get this correct. If someone had an excel with an example of the layout it would be simple to reproduce I am sure. 

Community Expert
June 20, 2023

feels like I am very close! I typed the whole thing out as one line and got a more complex QR code. When scanning with the camera app it says "no usable data found". If I right click on the QR code to edit I get:

 

 


If you are manually entering vcard, there is a hard return separating begin, version, properties, and endcode.

 

In a datamerge, the csv file has hard returns substituted with \n

 

One other note, in my example I noticed there is not \n between the url and end code. I went back and found if \n was present, it interfered with the URL.