How to set font in Texinfo - tex

I'm using the GNU texinfo package to generate both PDF and .info files from a .texi file.
I'm trying to update an old .texi file (not changed since 2001) and generate the same PDF output. I've resolved a number of issues, but there are a couple outstanding. In the old PDF, the title was in Helvetica and body text is Liberation Serif. In the new PDF, both are Computer Modern.
I've read everything that I can find about fonts, but I'm not able to change the fonts. Nothing that I do seems to work. Everything I have tried generates errors.
In my .texi file, before any \setfont directives, I have \def\fontprefix{uh} which, if I read the pdftex.map file correctly, should select the NimbusSanL font set (e.g. uhvr8a.pfb). I get the following errors:
mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation for uhss10.
kpathsea: Running mktexmf uhss10
! I can't find file uhss10'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input uhss10`
Does anyone have a example .texi file which sets the font family to use? Or an explanation of what I'm doing wrong?

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Chinese fonts in English Document of Latex

I would like to ask how to write some Chinese characters (simplified) within an English Latex document? I followed some methods suggested online but none of them are working for me. I am using Texworks to compile my document (pdfLatex).
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi}
你好吗
\end{CJK}
\end{document}
another method is mentioned here,
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\newcommand{\zh}[1]{\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}#1\end{CJK}}
insert whatever Chinese characters you like into the document by typing
\zh{中文}
The error I receive is as following when using the method of CJKutf8 with pdfLaTeX mentioned here,
The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
C:\Users\muhd_\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\log\miktex-makepk.log
)
!pdfTeX error: miktex-pdftex.exe (file bsmiu30): Font bsmiu30 at 600 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Log file is attached here.
The first error in the log file
The process terminated due to an access violation.
suggests that there are some problems with permissions while trying to create the necessary files to use the font for the Chinese letters.
Based on this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/419809/36296 the problem can be fixed by either runing updmap from the command line or Refresh font map files from within the miktex console (in user mode).

Zebra ZQ520 printer, download and use new .CPF font with ZPL language

problems to print with different fonts on my Zebra ZQ520:
as described in documentation, I've downloaded some new font through the official Zebra Font Downloader program, comic and verdana. After this, I found the new fonts in E: storage area. So the script:
^XA^HWE:^XZ
give me:
LIST OF FONT LINKS
- DIR E:.
* E:COMIC_02.CPF 7359
* E:VERDAN02.CPF 163 ....
- 66589184 bytes free E: ONBOARD FLASH
and trying to print example string from font downloader program, it print with the installed font with success.
The problem appens if I try to print a label. The printer seems not consider the .CPF files in ZPL commands.
My tests, without success, are:
1) following the procedure indicated in https://km.zebra.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SO7891 , assigning a designator to new font, with the script:
^XA^CWQ,E:COMIC_02.CPF^XZ
and trying to print something as:
^XA^FO50,50^AQN,50,50^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
seems not working (is it not possible to assign a designator on .CPF files??)
2) (not working too) test, I tryed to print something with the ^A# command, also without success. Example:
^XA^FO50,50^A#N,50,50,E:COMIC_02.CPF^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
Where is the problem? with printer (updated with the last firmware, V76.19.15Z)?
or ZPL can't print font stored in .CPF files?
or ..??
thanks!
The ZQ500 supports multiple printing languages. It ships with the PnP string stating that it is a CPCL printer. This tells the Zebra Setup Utility to generate a CPCL compatible font (.CPF). Since you are looking to print using ZPL you need to generate a font compatible with ZPL.
https://km.zebra.com/resources/sites/ZEBRA/content/live/SOLUTIONS/8000/SO8535/en_US/ZebraNet_Bridge_Font_Converting.pdf
This will use a different program to package a .ttf font for the printer. ZPL has support for truetype fonts so you will have better scaling of the font.
The ^CW and ^A# commands will both work with the ttf font.

TCPDF - How to generate a TTF file from PHP?

I am using TCPDF 6.0.20, PHP 5.3.8.
Since my PDF will contain some Chinese Character (Simplified and Traditional), I decide to use font name: cid0cs.
Now, since a lot of users replied that they don't have that font installed, I need to embed this font to the PDF.
However, in http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php it says how to embed a TTF file using addTTFfont(), but NO WAY to create that font.
The only file that I found in tcpdf/fonts/ is cid0cs.php, which is NOT a TTF file.
I tried to run the script in tcpdf/tools/tcpdf_addfont.php and use the command line below:
c:\tcpdf>php tools/tcpdf_addfont.php -t CID0CS -o . -i fonts/cid0cs.php
and it returns:
--- ERROR: can't add fonts/cid0cs.php
How can I create the cid0cs.ttf file so that I can embed it using addTTFfont()?
I found the solution and record the process in my blog post below:
http://alucard-blog.blogspot.hk/2013/06/tcpdf-how-to-display-chinese-character.html
The key point is: I found the font that can display Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
cmd and run php
run this command : \ABSOLUTE PATH TO\tcpdf_addfont.php -i \ABSOLUTE PATH TO\myfont.ttf
if it works fine, you will find 3 files of myfont in /TCPDF/fonts
you might find some help here : http://queirozf.com/entries/adding-a-custom-font-to-tcpdf

Offending Command error while Printing EPS

I am printing an EPS File generated with following credentials.
%-12345X#PJL JOB
#PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: InvoiceDetail_combine
%%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
%%CreationDate: 10/7/2011 4:46:59
%%For: Administrator
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend)
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%PageOrder: Special
%%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%TargetDevice: (HP Color LaserJet 4500) (2014.200) 0
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
While doing Selection Printing on Ricoh Afficio 2090 or any other drivers/printers get the following error printed on the sheets
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: F4S47
Stack:
.
Kindly Review and suggest a turn around for the same as i am already stuck in this hell. I have tried to convert/extract in PS but all in vain. I am using gsview to Print and view these files.
This is the problem:
%%PageOrder: Special
A ps document with "Special" page order can NOT be re-ordered. You cannot do a selection or range with this file because it is broken for this use. You must reprocess the file using Distiller or ghostscript (ps2ps or ps2pdf) in order to print selected or re-ordered pages from the document.
You can avoid this by generating your postscript files with a real Postscript™ driver (one not created by Microsoft).
The GSView Documentation has more about this.
Previously:
This line ...
%%TargetDevice: (HP Color LaserJet 4500) (2014.200) 0
... tells us that the file was generated with HP printers as a target. So this really is not an EPS file. Because it's not Encapsulatable. To generate output on a printer the file has to execute the showpage operator, which is a no-no for EPS files.
So uncheck the EPS box (it's a big fat lie, anyway), and select (install) a Generic Postscript driver. If you need to send it to multiple makes of printer, the file needs to make as few assumptions about the printer as possible.
The first thing is that this is not a valid EPS file, as it has PJL attached at the front. Many PostScript printers will strip this off, but by no means all.
This probably is not the source of the problem.
There is no way to 'review' the problem as you have not supplied the complete PostScript program. Without that there is no way to tell what is actually wrong, the error message tells you that the interpreter encountered 'F4547' while trying to parse a token, and that this has not been defined as a routine.
Most likely the file is corrupt, either damaged in some way, or possibly it is a biinary file and has been transmitted by some process which does has done some kind of conversion (CR/LF is common). The offending command looks like its ASCIIHex encoded, so that may be a red herring.
If you want additional help, you are going to have to make the whole program available somewhere.

Load a single symbol from a LaTeX package

When using the MnSymbol package, pdflatex gives two font warnings:
LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding 'OMS' has changed to 'U' for symbol font
(Font) 'symbols' in the math version 'normal' on input line 120.
LaTeX Font Info: Overwriting symbol font 'symbols' in version 'normal'
(Font) OMS/cmsy/m/n --> U/MnSymbolF/m/n on input line 120.
It turns out that this is probably due to a clash with the AMSSymb package.
Since I need just a few symbols from the package: is there a way to load one symbol from a package, in stead of all?
Here's how I solved this:
Download the perl script "makefakeMnSymbol" from the comprehensive latex symbol document source:
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/source/makefakeMnSymbol
Next, at command line do chmod +x makefakeMnSymbol to make it executable. Then, run
./makefakeMnSymbol `kpsewhich MnSymbol.sty` > fakeMnSymbol.sty
Put fakeMnSymbol.sty in a texmf directory of choice (global or local), and run texhash
If you now put
\usepackage{fakeMnSymbol}
in your preamble, you can now use any MnSymbol, like \powerset by prefixing it like \MNSpowerset
Big thanks to Scott Pakin for this hack... and for his comprehensive symbol guide...
This hack has problems with symbols in subscripts/superscripts. A work-around is to use look at the fakeMnSymbol.sty source to find which font the symbol you want was loaded from, along with its number. Here's an example from one of my preambles where I override the built-in \boxminus with an MnSymbol:
\usepackage[]{fakeMnSymbol}
\DeclareSymbolFont{mnsymbolc}{U}{MnSymbolC}{m}{n}
\let\boxminus=\undefined
\DeclareMathSymbol{\boxminus}{2}{mnsymbolc}{112}
These warnings are nothing to worry about. In fact, in the next LaTeX release they'll disappear (see the original bug report). No ETA on that, however.
Moreover, is there any real chance this affects the typesetting of the document?
Nope.
is there any way to prevent this?
Can patch the LaTeX warning message code before loading the package, and then restore it again afterwards (this is what I've done in the past in my own packages), but as a user I'd just learn to ignore the warning.
The following might help. This is the code I had to add in order to get just the \bigominus symbol out of the MnSymbol package.
\DeclareFontFamily{U}{MnSymbolF}{}<br>
\DeclareSymbolFont{mnsymbols}{U}{MnSymbolF}{m}{n}<br>
\DeclareFontShape{U}{MnSymbolF}{m}{n}{<br>
<-6> MnSymbolF5<br>
<6-7> MnSymbolF6<br>
<7-8> MnSymbolF7<br>
<8-9> MnSymbolF8<br>
<9-10> MnSymbolF9<br>
<10-12> MnSymbolF10<br>
<12-> MnSymbolF12}{}<br>
\DeclareMathSymbol{\bigominus}{\mathop}{mnsymbols}{55}

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