Pretty-printing an ECF file

Here is how to pretty-print the ECF file project.ecf:

	gedoc --force --format=ecf_pretty_print project.ecf

The command-line option --force tells gedoc to overwrite the ECF file being pretty-printed. Without this option, files will not be overwritten and gedoc will emit an error message. Alternatively, the command-line option --interactive can be used. It will ask confirmation to the user before overwriting files. If you want to generate the pretty-printed file in a directory different from the one containing the original ECF file, you should use the command-line option --output.

Converting an ECF file

Converting an ECF file to a given version of ECF is similar to pretty-printing this ECF file, except that you have to provide the version of ECF you want your ECF file to be converted to:

gedoc --force --format=ecf_pretty_print --ecf=1.18.0 project.ecf

This will convert the ECF file project.ecf to version 1.18.0. Alternatively, you can convert your ECF file to the last version of ECF known by gedoc:

gedoc --force --format=ecf_pretty_print --ecf=latest project.ecf

Note that trying to convert an ECF file to a version older than the one initially used to write this file might end up in a loss of information. For example some options, settings or capabilities used in your ECF file may not be supported in older versions.