Re: [Zint-barcode] QRCode and Show Human Readable Text

[<ro...@zi...>]

Hi,


I think that Image Magick (http://www.imagemagick.org) should be able to do what
you need, although I have to confess I have never used this software.
 
Robin.

 
 

On 07 April 2011 at 17:29 Jeb Bisson <jeb...@rb...> wrote:

> I appreciate your response.
> It's unfortunate you are not going to expand on that but I understand the
> reasons.
>
> Do you have a suggest for a program to embed images.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:11 PM, ro...@zi... <ro...@zi...>wrote:
>
> >  Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > As you have noticed human readable text only works for specific
> > symbologies. With QR Code I didn't think it was practical to have human
> > readable text for a number of reasons: as you mentioned the input for QR
> > Code can be very long so this would require a procedure for figuring out how
> > large the image needed to be to include all of the text, also there is no
> > established position or format for showing human readable text with QR Code.
> > So, basically I'm afraid that adding anything else to the image is left to
> > you - perhaps by embedding the output image from Zint in a larger image
> > containing the structure you need.
> >
> >
> >
> > Zint _is_ the library used to generate the QR Code and this is it's primary
> > function - encoding the data in a symbol. I'm sorry to say there is no plan
> > to expand on this functionality.
> >
> > Robin.
> >
> >
> >  On 05 April 2011 at 21:26 Jeb Bisson <jeb...@rb...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I cannot get the Human Readable Text option to work underneath the QR
> > Code.
> > > It's not just QR codes that are causing this(others do work, still others
> > do
> > > not work) and I assume there is some reason for it.
> > > Perhaps the unlimited length of data that can be encoded into a QR code
> > or
> > > other types cause a problem when attempting to output. Or perhaps the
> > > library used to generate the QR code does not allow for it.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to get this to work? Is this a feature for the future?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >