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Greek letter encoding inside zip files on linux

Greek character encoding in filenames inside zip files, that use only latin encoding for the filenames that are created on Windows, cannot handled correctly in Linux. This article presents a solution to the problem. If you uncompress such file, you will end up with garbage ascii filenames. One solution of course, is to use a […]

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Counting color and black/white pages in a pdf

A little tip to count how many color pages there are in a pdf file using Ghostscript. If you want to estimate the printing cost of a pdf, it is often helpful to know the exact number of color pages inside it. Using the command below you can get a CMYK color report for each […]