Python Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

QR Code Colors and Transparent Background

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Demonstrates colored QR codes. render.foreground is the color of the dark modules and render.background the color behind them, each as #RRGGBB. Either can instead be an object with a color and an opacity from 0 to 1, and a background opacity of 0 gives a PNG with a transparent background to place over a page or a design. Readers need contrast: keep the modules clearly darker than whatever ends up behind them. Chilkat2-Python

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

fmt = chilkat2.Formats()
jsonOut = chilkat2.JsonObject()

# Dark blue modules on a pale yellow background.
json = chilkat2.JsonObject()
json.UpdateString("payload.text","https://www.chilkatsoft.com/")
json.UpdateInt("render.moduleSize",6)
json.UpdateString("render.foreground","#1B3A6B")
json.UpdateString("render.background","#FFF8DC")
json.UpdateString("output.path","qa_output/qr_blue.png")
json.UpdateBool("output.overwrite",True)
json.UpdateString("output.return","none")
success = fmt.QrCode("generate",json,jsonOut)
if (success == False):
    print(fmt.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("colored: " + jsonOut.StringOf("outputs[0].path") + ", " + str(jsonOut.IntOf("outputs[0].byteCount")) + " bytes")

# The image written to qa_output/qr_blue.png:

# 

# The same modules on a fully transparent background.
json2 = chilkat2.JsonObject()
json2.UpdateString("payload.text","https://www.chilkatsoft.com/")
json2.UpdateInt("render.moduleSize",6)
json2.UpdateString("render.foreground","#1B3A6B")
json2.UpdateString("render.background.color","#FFFFFF")
json2.UpdateNumber("render.background.opacity","0")
json2.UpdateString("output.path","qa_output/qr_transparent.png")
json2.UpdateBool("output.overwrite",True)
json2.UpdateString("output.return","none")
success = fmt.QrCode("generate",json2,jsonOut)
if (success == False):
    print(fmt.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("transparent: " + jsonOut.StringOf("outputs[0].path") + ", " + str(jsonOut.IntOf("outputs[0].byteCount")) + " bytes")

# qa_output/qr_transparent.png, placed here over a checkerboard and over a colored page
# to show that whatever is behind the image shows through:

# 

# Sample output:

# colored: qa_output/qr_blue.png, 1345 bytes
# transparent: qa_output/qr_transparent.png, 1377 bytes