How about fixing the "new format" to be backwards-compatible, instead?
I think compatibility of the format extensions are paramount.

Bill

> I found a critical problem in the new format when working on the
> viewer implementation. The problem is that the viewer will not be
> able to find the navigation data (put after the compressed text/image
> data). One solution would be to add a new field to the header with
> the size of the compressed data or the offset to the navigation data.
> 
> This will, however, make the new format non-backwards compatible.
> 
> It should be quite simple to write a script that could convert
> documents from the new format to the old format (without the new
> features), though.

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