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Topic: Using QR codes in graphic art

I have in mind designing some posters that could be used in an art gallery, or indeed other places. Though primarily in an art gallery as they could perhaps be considered both information posters and works of art.

The designs that that I have in mind for these landscape format posters include a large graphical symbol centred, a short text string at lower left and a QR code at lower right.

I remembered producing some QR codes some time ago and testing them yet I did not remember the websites where I did those things.

I searched through the attachments that I have uploaded to the Serif Affinity forum and thereby found the thread where I had documented links to those websites.

I have been reading through that thread, from February 2022.

Some readers might perhaps enjoy reading through that thread.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … -visiting/

I am interested in how to design posters that include a QR code.

I am considering the following questions.

Should I design at A5 and print at A3?

Or should I design at A7 and print at A3?

Or should I enlarge a copy of the QR code and then design at A3 and print at A3?

William

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Re: Using QR codes in graphic art

I would make the QR code whatever size you need it to be, so that you can design and print the entire poster at A3 size. A5 might be doable if you prefer that approach, but A7 is only one sixteenth of the area of A3 (necessitating a huge amount of enlargement to achieve output at the desired size).

There are numerous sites that offer free QR code generation. Here’s one of them:

https://www.qrcode-monkey.com

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Re: Using QR codes in graphic art

Thank you.

William

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Re: Using QR codes in graphic art

I have now produced designs for two signs.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ent-970674

William

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Re: Using QR codes in graphic art

William wrote:

I have now produced designs for two signs.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ent-970674

William

I have added another post to the thread.

The thread has 109 views at the time of posting this post.

William