Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ETX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ETX to another file type
To convert ETX settings to another format, you need cablabel S3 or other Data software.
Convert a file to ETX
To convert other file formats to the "Label Design & Settings" file type, you need software like cablabel S3 or a similar tool.
About ETX files
An .ETX file is a highly variable extension used by completely different software systems, meaning the extension alone does not guarantee a specific format. Most commonly, it acts as a Product Label Design file created by cablabel S3, a specialized software application for managing cab industrial thermal printers. In other contexts, it serves as an RC radio model settings file for open-source EdgeTX firmware, a text definition file for EPLAN Software & Service, or a localized navigation data file for Robert Bosch car infotainment systems. To properly open and edit these files, you need the original software that created them. Label files require cablabel S3, while RC model settings are managed directly on the radio hardware or via the EdgeTX Companion software. EPLAN definitions can be managed via EPLAN Electric P8. Users often need to convert .ETX files because the original software is highly specialized, expensive, or tied to proprietary hardware. cablabel files are proprietary and use zlib compression, making them impossible to proof or share with clients who lack the software - creating an annoying bottleneck for print workflows. The ideal conversion targets depend entirely on the file's origin. For label designs, converting to PDF or PNG is best for visual proofing, though interactive print elements and hardware-specific barcodes will be permanently lost. For EdgeTX files, extracting to ZIP reveals the underlying configuration files. EPLAN files can be safely converted to standard XML or TXT for raw data parsing. Because the .etx extension is overloaded with disparate formats - ranging from proprietary binaries to standard XML - generic online converters fail completely. They expect a single standardized format and cannot parse the complex internal data structures. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ETX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ETX file to TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, EOT, SVG, BDF, PCF, FNT, FON, PFM or AFM, you can use cablabel S3 or similar software from the "Label Design & Firmware Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert UFO, WOFF, PFB, GXF, AFM, F3F, SFD, WOFF2, PSF, TTF, TXF or OTF files to ETX, try cablabel S3 or another comparable tool in the "Label Design & Firmware Settings" category.
The ETX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ETX converter.