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Works / WPS Office document to PDF converter

WPS → PDF is the quickest way to read an old Works letter or a .wps attachment from a WPS Office user: the document is laid out as pages and saved as a PDF that opens anywhere.

  • Converted with Office engine · input deleted within 24 h
  • Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
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From real runs

What you get — and what changes

  • Page count and size Kept

    The Works manuscript printed on 9 US Letter pages; a German DOS Works worksheet stayed A4 on 2 pages.

  • Selectable text Kept

    Words land in the PDF as text, so a German spelling worksheet from DOS Works can be searched for any word on it.

  • Clip-art Kept

    The Works elephant drawing printed as a sharp vector picture rather than a blurry bitmap.

  • Columns lined up with spaces Changed

    The DOS spelling worksheet lined up two word lists with spaces; printed in a proportional serif face, the second column wanders by a few points from line to line.

  • Typefaces Changed

    Times New Roman and Arial print as Liberation Serif and Liberation Sans, which have the same widths, so pages break where Works broke them.

  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean text Changed

    WPS Office documents in Chinese print with a substitute CJK typeface in place of SimSun or FangSong, so tables and page breaks can shift compared with WPS Office.

  • Headers and footers Kept

    Page numbers in the WPS Office tender document stayed in the footer of every page.

Sample conversions

Works manuscript

Input
64,000-byte Works 6–9 document with 4,973 words of prose in Times New Roman.
Output
77,877-byte PDF, 9 Letter pages, in 1.1 s.

Works page with clip-art

Input
31,744-byte Works document holding a single clip-art elephant and a caption.
Output
16,974-byte PDF, 1 A4 page, in 1.1 s; the drawing is vector art and prints cleanly at any size.

A real Works / WPS Office document → PDF run

We converted our Works / WPS Office document sample (10 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 4.0 s and produced a 12 KB PDF file, 1.3× larger than the input. The engine raised 1 warning, listed below.

Input · sample.wps · 10 KB

9,728 bytes

Output · sample.pdf · 12 KB

PDF 1.6, 1 page, selectable text (LiberationSerif), 0 image objects

Version
1.6
Pages
1
Fonts
LiberationSerif
Images
0
Text layer
yes
  • Fonts that are not installed on our servers are replaced with substitutes, so lines can wrap differently.

Options and when to change them

filter
Not needed: the PDF export is fixed. Use it only to name a different PDF export filter from a script.

Do it yourself

LibreOffice

bash
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir out *.wps

For Chinese WPS Office files install a CJK font package first (fonts-noto-cjk on Debian and Ubuntu), or every character prints as an empty box.

Works / WPS Office document to PDF by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=wps&to=pdf.

curl
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.wps" -F "from=wps" -F "to=pdf" \
  --output output.pdf
API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

  • If you want to keep editing the document, WPS → DOCX gives you an editable Word file instead.
  • If the file is a Works spreadsheet (.wks or .xlr) rather than a word-processor document, use the Works spreadsheet converter; a .wps is always the word processor.

Works / WPS Office document to PDF questions

Can I open a .wps file on a phone?

Not without an app; neither iOS nor Android previews Works files. Converting to PDF gives a file every phone opens in its built-in viewer.

Will Chinese text in a WPS Office file print correctly?

Yes, with a substitute typeface: the characters are right, but SimSun and FangSong are replaced, so line and page breaks move. For an exact print, export the PDF from WPS Office itself.

Why is my converted PDF blank?

Works happily saves empty documents and templates. When the PDF has no text and no picture we stop and tell you, instead of handing back an empty page.

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