Remove fonts from Zebra printer - printing

I am trying to remove some fonts from the Zebra ZT410 memory which I loaded them during testing. I deleted them using the Zebra Designer Fonts but when I print the command ^XA^WD*:*.TTF*^XZ to show me the fonts stored on the printer it still shows me those fonts that I deleted in the E: directory of the printer. Can somebody please help me to delete them from the printer.
cheers

From the ZPL manual:
^ID – Object Delete
The ^ID command deletes objects, graphics, fonts, and stored formats from storage areas. Objects can be deleted selectively or in groups. This command can be used within a printing format to delete objects before saving new ones, or in a stand-alone format to delete objects.
The image name and extension support the use of the asterisk (*) as a wild card. This allows you to easily delete a selected groups of objects.
Format: ^IDd:o.x
Parameters Details
d = location of stored object
Values: R:, E:, B:, and A:
Default: R:
o = object name
Values: any 1 to 8 character name
Default: if a name is not specified, UNKNOWN is used
x = extension Values: any extension conforming to Zebra conventions
Default: .GRF
Example 1: To delete stored formats from DRAM:
^XA
^IDR:*.ZPL^FS
^XZ
Example 2: To delete formats and images named SAMPLE from DRAM, regardless of the
extension:
^XA
^IDR:SAMPLE.*^FS
^XZ
Example 3: To delete the image SAMPLE1.GRF prior to storing SAMPLE2.GRF:
^XA
^FO25,25^AD,18,10
^FDDelete^FS
^FO25,45^AD,18,10
^FDthen Save^FS
^IDR:SAMPLE1.GRF^FS
^ISR:SAMPLE2.GRF^FS^XZ
Example 4: In this the * is a wild card, indicating that all objects with the .GRF extension are deleted:
^XA
^IDR:*.GRF^FS
^XZ

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I am trying to create a PDF File to export using jsPDF library. In one of the lines I am trying to write a word that contains this 'ū' letter,
doc.text('Hūla', 20, 30);
However, when doing so the exported file doesn't contain this letter but instead it becomes
'H k l a' with spaces in between and a k instead of the ū.
What can I do in order to have this printed properly?
The solution was to use a font that supports this. I had to try multiple ones in order to get it working with this letter ū (it is not a specific language)
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ZPL Page Break / Generating Multiple pages

I am using ZPL for the first time to generate shipping labels. I am using a ruby-on-rails gem https://github.com/rjocoleman/labelary to ultimately turn the ZPL sting into a pdf. I want to create multiple pages, incrementing a variable for each page using a loop until enough pages have been created. Say the ZPL looks like this:
^XA
^FX Top section with company logo, name and address.
^CF0,60
^FO50,50^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO75,75^FR^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO88,88^GB50,50,50^FS
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^FO220,135^FDShelbyville TN 38102^FS
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^CF0,40
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^FO100,1010^FDREF1 F00B47^FS
^FO100,1060^FDREF2 BL4H8^FS
^CF0,190
^FO485,965^FDCA^FS
^XZ
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If your pages are truly identical, you could just use the ^PQ command to set the number of copies you want to print (e.g. ^PQ3 to print three copies). This command must appear before the ^XZ command.
However if your pages aren't identical (maybe you have a sequence number or something), just start a new format by using a new ^XA command after your first page is done.

Need Tips for RFID ZPL for Zebra ZD500R Printer

Working on printing and encoding RFID labels with the Zebra ZD500R Printer.
Here is my ZPL: The field data is F1001001, which i can encode and print on the label. However the EPC returned is F10010010000000000000000. How can i do one of 2 things. Either get the ZPL to 4 Bytes with no 0's or encode random hexadecimals at the front and my field data at the end?
My other question is how do make my field data increment and have both the RFID encoded tag and label match?
`^XA
^BCN,100,N,N
^FO30,50^FDF1001001^FS
^FO30,160^ADN,18,15^FDF1001001^FS
^FO30,220^ADN,10,20^^FD12/1/2024^FS
^FO30,260^ADN,10,20^^FDUYT 098^FS
^RFW,H^FDF1001001^FS
^RFR,H^FN11^FS
^FH^HV11,,EPC:[,]_0D_0A,L
^XZ`
I know I'm a bit late to the party but it might be useful if someone else stumbles over this post...
Try:
^RS8
^RFW,H,,,A^FD12345678^FS
When read with a RFID reader this will return the EPC code 12345678 without the trailing zeros (or encode random hexadecimals). For reference this was written to a tag using a Zebra ZQ511.
https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/manuals/printers/common/programming/rfid3-pg-en.pdf
If you want to encode fixed EPC length, use the ^RF command with a length paramter :
Example 3: This example encodes 4 bytes of hexadecimal formatted data, starting in block 3
of Gen 2 EPC bank 1. (The ^RS command can be omitted for printers that use Gen 2 tag types
only.)
^XA
^RS8
^RFW,H,3,4,1^FD11112222^FS
^XZ
For incrementation, I suppose Zebra has a builtin variable management but I don't know how it works... But you are better calling the Zebra printer through an external program...

printfn not producing expected results for international (non-latin) characters

I have the following program:
let txt = "إتصالات"
printfn "Text is: %s" txt
0 // return an integer exit code
The value of txt is being set to some Arabic characters. When I run the program what is being displayed on the console is a bunch of question marks rather than the characters. In the Visual Studio 2012 debugger the correct characters are being displayed for the txt variable.
What am I doing wrong and how does one properly display international characters?
According to How to write unicode chars to console? you need to set the OutputEncoding property on the console, like this:
System.Console.OutputEncoding <- System.Text.Encoding.Unicode
let txt = "إتصالات"
printfn "Text is: %s" txt
0 // return an integer exit code
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Here are some additional links with more information:
Necessary criteria for fonts to be available in a command window (this is for Windows 2000 and may not entirely apply to Windows 8, but it should give you a good idea of what to look for in a font).
Windows Console and TrueType Fonts shows how to add new fonts to the console.
Anyone who says the console can't do Unicode isn't as smart as they think they are has some background information about writing Unicode text to the console.
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Parse a Word Document By Font?

I'm currently trying to write a script which would run through a word document and output to a text file all the lines that are written in a certain font.
So if I had the document:
"This is the first line of the document.
This is the second line of the document.
This is the third line of the document."
And say normal lines are Times New Roman, bold is Arial, and italics is Sans Serif.
Then, ideally, I could parse the document for all lines in Arial and the text file output would have the line:
This is the second line of the document.
Any idea on how to do this from a script? I was thinking about first converting the doc into xml, but I do not think this is possible within a script.
You'll want to use the FIND object, and the FONT property of the FIND object.
So, something like this:
Public Sub FindTest()
Dim r As Range
Set r = ActiveDocument.Content
With r.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Style = "SomeStyleName"
Do While .Execute(Forward:=True, Format:=True) = True
'---- we found a range
Dim duperange As Range
Set duperange = r.Duplicate
Debug.Print r.Text
Loop
End With
End Sub
Note that where I've specified Style, you could specify font formatting via the FIND.FONT object, or various other formatting options. Just browse around the FIND object to see what's available.

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