#4 Unable to open TpX or PDF files created yesterday

[Anonymous]

First of all, I wanted to say that I've been impressed with the TpX application - the drawing and editing capabilities and the ability to save to a PDF. I used it to diagram some football plays for a local kids league. I spent 10+ hours working on it over the last 2 days, saving various versions as tpx and pdf files. I restarted the TpX app this morning and attempted to open the saved tpx files and got an Error message indicating "Can not open ...file.TpX". The About box indicates Version 1.5 with TpX format v.5. I'm running Windows Vista. After hitting OK on the Error message box, an old version of the drawing is present (from around my first hour of work) in TpX. I don't think its just a matter of me not remembering what I saved. I saved many times and have about 8 different TpX files. Attempting to open the latest 4 files yield the same results after the error message box, apparently showing the drawing in the same state each time. Then I figured I'd try to open the PDF files that I was saving. My first attempt indicated that I needed to have GhostScript. So I downloaded/installed that. Next there was an error about path for gswin32c.exe. I'm a developer, too. So I opened the TpX.ini file and provided a path to that executable, as in GhostscriptPath=c:\Program Files\gs\gs8.64\bin\gswin32c.exe. I'm not clear on whether that syntax is correct, but now I'm getting a different error "PsToEdit file not created" whether I attempt to open a PDF file or the EPS file that I noticed. I didn't save in any other formats. I figured its best to save in the application's native format. I would really appreciate it if you can help me open the drawing for future editing, so that I don't lose the hours and hours of work. I'm going to try to attach a TpX file, the EPS file and a PDF file, but not sure whether I can attach more than 1 file. The TpX file is about 32K, the EPS file about 39K and the PDF file is about 13K. Looks like it'll take just one file. Thanks. Terry

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[akoropecki]

I had exactly the same problem today (after spending all day working yesterday on my drawing). I manually edited the TpX file (you can do this with notepad) and found that there was the line
% <bezier closed="1" lw="0.50" ha="5" hc="green"></bezier>
that is, a closed bezier curve with no points given. I don't know how it ended up in the file (it was working just fine last time I saved it) but this was easily solved by deleting that line.
So I recommend that you try and look for this kind of "empty" objects in your TpX file.
This *is* a bug, I'm just happy that I recovered my stuff.
Good luck.