Businesscard with QR-Code

What happens, if you give your visitin card to someone? Either he manually types the text into his computer or mobilefone, or it will end up in a box and be forgotten. Nowadays data is required electronically, not on paper. Here is the solution: A visiting card with QR-Code that contains a full vcard, so that it can be scanned with an app on the mobilefone and therefore automatically imported into the electronic contacts. This also works well, when you are offline and bluetooth transfer fails. So here is the highly configurable businescard or visitingcards with full vcard as QR-Code, ready to send to online printers.

Other available visitingcard templates, such as mschlenker distribute the cards on an A4 paper. But if you want a professional printer, such as onlineprinters, then you need to be able to generate a PDF with exactly one card, an exactly defined border and crop marks. That's why I wrote this template: You can specify the exact size of the paper and the content within the paper, inluding generation of crop marks.

Features

all information is in the QR-Code
full privacy control: input is optional, specify only what you need, you decide what information to share, e.g. I print three cards, with phone and address, without address and only with electronical contacts, no phone nor address
optional icons, optional small hint texts
several alignments
freely defined size of paper and content
supports honoric titles, full names, address with post office box and extended information
supports telefone, email, jabber and matrix chat
supports several urls for your hompages
supports gitea, github, git
supports facebook, twitter, google+, youtube, wikipedia
supports pgp key url and fingerprint
supports nextcloud federation id

Usage Example

Important: You must use xelatex for compilation, because xelatex properly supports UTF-8 (e.g. needed for german umlauts or chinese characters). The package inputenc messes up with package qrcode.

Include the documentclass, define your date and add the document part:

\documentclass{businesscard-qrcode}

\def\type{home}
\def\printaddress{}
\def\givennames{An}
\def\familynames{Example}
\def\street{Einbahnstrasse 84}
\def\city{Irgendwo}
\def\zip{1001}
\def\country{Switzerland}
\def\homepage{example.com}
\def\email{name@example.com}

\begin{document}
	\drawcard
\end{document}

Save it as file texstudio_d30266.tex and compile it to get texstudio_d30266.pdf:

xelatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode texstudio_d30266.tex

The result:\

See examples for more examples.

Documentclass Options

Layout options are set as options to the \documentclass, e.g.:

\documentclass[textwidth=0.7,qrwidth=0.25,www,nofill,iconright,rightalign,hint,icon,textfirst]{businesscard-qrcode}

Available options:

paperwidth: width of the physical paper where the card is printed on (incl. border), default: 89mm
paperheight: height of the physical paper where the card is printed on (incl. border), default: 59mm
contentwidth: width of the card's content without the border that is cut, default: 85mm
contentheight: height of the card's content without the border that is cut, default: 55mm
fontsize: any fontsize allowed in extarticle, that are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 17pt and 20pt, default: 8pt
padding: padding within the card's content, default: 2mm
cutdist: distance in mm where the cut marks are set, default: 2
cutlen: length of the cut marks in mm, default: 1
textwidth: relative width of the text block 1 means full width, so qrwidth plus textwidth should be smaller than 1 the remainig space is left empty between the text and QR-Code, default: 0.55 (that's 55% of the available space)
qrwidth: relative width of the QR-Code 1 means full width, so qrwidth plus textwidth should be smaller than 1 the remainig space is left empty between the text and QR-Code, default: 0.40 (that's 40% of the available space)
lang: language of the wikipedia page, will be prepended before wikipedia.org, e.g. de.wikipedia.org, default: de
addressor noaddress: disable rendering of the address in text and QR-Code, default: address
hint or nohint: show the little text hints, default: hint
icon or noicon: show the icons, default: icon
rightalign or leftalign: align text left or right, default: rightalign
iconleft or iconright: show icon left or right of the text, default: iconleft
fill or nofill: fill empty space between icon and text, default: fill
qrfirst or textfirst: switch position of QR-Code and text block, default: qrfirst
https or www: should links in the hints be prefixed with https:// or www., default: https

Data Definitions

Your data is entered as definitions in the document, e.g.:

\def\email{name@example.com}

Please note, that spaces must be escaped, otherwise they do not appear in the QR-Code. You may not escape the spaces in your phone number, if you want them in the text, but not in the QR-Code, e.g.:

\def\givennames{Juan\ Pablo}
\def\familynames{Martínez\ Escudero}
\def\phone{+41 52 123 45 67}

Recognized definitions:

type: either home or work for personal or business cards
givennames: your first name and eventual middle names
familynames: your family names
honoricprefix: honorix name prefixes, e.g. academic titles
honoricsuffix: honoric name suffixes
additionalnames: additionl names — I use it for the company name in business cards
pobox: post office box
extaddr: address extension, e.g. name of a building or floor number
street: street and number of the address
city: name of the address location
region: region of the address
zip: zip code of the address
country: full name of country of the address in the language of the card
phone: your phone number, the phone is marked as mobile, so to be used for voice and text (SMS)
email: your email address
jabber: your jabber or xmpp chat address
matrixorg: your matrix chat addres, hint: use riot messenger for matrix
cloud: your nextcloud federation id — the url is prepended automatically
homepage: url to a web site with «home» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
world: url to a web site with «world» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
link: url to a web site with «link» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
wordpress: url to a web site with «wordpress» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
drupal: url to a web site with «» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
joomla: url to a web site with «joomla» icon — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
wikipedia: if you or your company have a wikipedia entry, specify documentclass option lang for the language of you entry and use this definition for the name of your page — the url is prepended automatically
git: the url of your git repository — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
gitea: the url of your gitea project page, you can use this tag also for other project management sites, such as gogs — without https:// not www (unless it is required), this is prepended automatically
github: your account name on github — only the name of the account, the url is prepended automatically
facebook: your account name on facebook or the name of your page — only the name of the account or page, the url is prepended automatically
twitter: your account name on twitter — only the name of the account, the url is prepended automatically
youtube: your account name on youtube — only the name of the account, the url is prepended automatically
google: your account name on google+ — only the name of the account, the url is prepended automatically
pgpurl: the full url to your pgp public key (only added to the QR-Code, not shown in the text)
pgpfingerprint: the fingerprint of your pgp public key

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If you are missing a feature or a configuration option, just open a ticket and I will care about it.

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