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		karunamurti 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jim's TrueType QR Code Font OpenType specification is Turing complete, its hinting engine does math during rasterization and its GSUB (Glyph Substitution, a layout and shaping engine) does glyph stacking, QR code correction, etc to finalize the QR. The nice thing about it is if you copy and paste it, it goes to the original text.
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foodevl 1 day ago | [–]

This doesn't use hinting. Some reasons why are listed at: https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font/blob/master/design.md#wh...

bch 1 day ago | [–]

What a vector (no pun intended) for malware or other computation…

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