12.5 Ipe6upgrade: convert Ipe 6 files to Ipe 7 file format

Ipe6upgrade takes as input a file created by any version of Ipe 6, and saves in the format of Ipe 7.0.0.

ipe6upgrade infile [ outfile ]

If not provided, the outfile is guessed by adding the extension "ipe" to the infile's basename.

To reuse an Ipe 6 document in EPS or PDF format, you first run "ipeextract", which extracts the XML stream inside the document and saves it as an XML file. The Ipe 6 XML document can then be converted to Ipe 7 format using "ipe6upgrade".

If your old figure is figure.pdf, then the command

ipeextract figure.pdf

will save the XML stream as figure.xml. Then run

ipe6upgrade figure.xml

which will save your document in Ipe 7 format as figure.ipe. All contents of the original document should have been preserved.