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• • September 30, 2024 at 11:12 am #14406781
    Ashley Taylor

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    Hi all –
    I design catalogs and send native ind files to prepress. I have just recently been creating my QR codes within InDesign (life saver!) and am running into issues at prepress. They show as missing image links on the prepress end, but never show up in my links panel as an image. I’ve looked to try to embed the QR code, but can’t find an option.

    Any insight on how to prevent this issue?

  • September 30, 2024 at 11:19 am #14406783
    Steve

    Member

    InDesign treats them as embedded vector EPS files (although you can’t “unembed” them).
    You can create a QR code, export to PDF, open in Illustrator and save and/or copy/paste the vector into InDesign (obviously scanning and checking it for readability).
    Alternatively, use a dedicated QR program or service to create them.

  • September 30, 2024 at 12:02 pm #14406786
    Ashley Taylor

    Participant

    Thanks Steve! We have previously been making our own QRs on a website, so we will probably continue to utilize that method since it requires less steps.

    Similarly, do you know anything about deleting the GenAI image data created in InDesign? For example, I created an image and ended up not using it. Simply deleting the image from the page doesn’t work, as it still has the image listed in the links panel.

    • September 30, 2024 at 12:31 pm #14406790
      Steve

      Member

      this was a bug that I reported – I had a 29.6 GB file because of all the AI variations that weren’t deleted!

  • September 30, 2024 at 12:27 pm #14406788
    Maurice Williams

    Participant

    Isn’t there a way that they can train the prepress system to ignore the QR codes?

    • October 1, 2024 at 6:29 am #14406796
      Mike Rankin

      Keymaster

      Exactly. It’s seeing a problem where there is none.

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