[Ipe-discuss] Recovering a corrupted ipe file

[Otfried Cheong]

> 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