prawn-qrcodes

Add QR codes to PDF files generated with Prawn.

Features

prawn-qrcodes is little Prawn extension that allow you to generate and add QR codes to PDF files. It can generate QR codes from

• UTF-8 strings,
• alphanumeric strings,
• Kanji strings,
• URIs,
• integer numbers.

Examples

The easiest way to add QR codes to your Prawn document is to use the qrcode function.

require 'prawn/qrcodes'

Prawn::Document.generate("qr-example.pdf") do
    msg = "Hello world, this is a QR code"
    text msg

    qrcode msg
end

You can pass to qrcode two kinds of options: layout options and QR options.

The layout options allow you to specify how the QR code should be placed on the PDF page.

require 'prawn/qrcodes'

Prawn::Document.generate("qr-big.pdf") do
    msg = "Hello world, this is a QR code"
    text msg

    qrcode msg, :position => :center,
                :fit => [bounds.height, bounds.width]
end

The QR options let you change the way the QR codes are generated.

require 'prawn/qrcodes'

Prawn::Document.generate("qr-big.pdf") do
    msg = "Hello world, this is a QR code"
    text msg

    qrcode msg, :level => :h
end

You can mix these options as you like.

require 'prawn/qrcodes'

Prawn::Document.generate("qr-big.pdf") do
    msg = "Hello world, this is a QR code"
    text msg

    qrcode msg, :level => :h, :position => :center
end

Requirements

prawn-qrcodes uses the rqrcode library for the generation of QR codes.

Installation

prawn-qrcodes is available on RubyGems.

$ gem install prawn-qrcodes

Once it has been installed, you can include it in your application with:

require 'prawn/qrcodes'

Authors

Original author: Gioele Barabucci [email protected]

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. See the UNLICENSE file or http://unlicense.org/ for more details.