[Ipe-discuss] Recovering a corrupted ipe file
Otfried Cheong
otfried at ipe.airpost.net
Mon Sep 23 09:46:06 CEST 2013
> I have been working on an ipe document which suddenly cannot be
> opened any more. Ipe shows an error message that "The document was
> created by a newer version of Ipe". I am certain that this is not
> true, and that the file was corrupted in some other way. The file is
> still a valid pdf. Is there anything I might try to recover this file
> and one hour of work?
The first step should always be to run ipeextract on the PDF file to
convert it to a plain-text XML file. Then look at the first lines -
what version of Ipe does it show?
Cheers,
Otfried
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