From the course: InDesign: Creating a Book with an Online Component
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Creating QR code links for InDesign - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Creating a Book with an Online Component
Creating QR code links for InDesign
- [Instructor] Not that you probably need reminding at all, but you are watching a course on creating a book with an online component, and this is where we actually dig in to that, because the way we are presenting our online components are not, of course, with the medium of a disc that you might have gotten a book years ago and so on. It's so you can access content from the book that is hosted online, and the way we're doing that is by using a QR, so you've got a physical book, you are looking through it, there's a movie that explains something, and then you can just snap the QR on your device, and it sends you to that movie. Making the QR codes in InDesign is relatively straightforward, unless you want to do a business card, which I don't think you do want to do, but we'll see that in just a second, but this is how that begins. If I zoom in, you need to have a column that begins with a hashtag, or a pound sign if you like, or octothorpe if you want to be super technical, followed by…
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