Can PowerPoint open .dps directly?

DPS is the presentation format of Kingsoft WPS Office, the Chinese productivity suite that dominates desktop deployments across mainland government ministries, large state-owned enterprises, and most public-sector procurement contracts. It is binary, structurally similar to legacy PowerPoint .ppt, but with its own quirks: embedded Chinese fonts, custom shape libraries, and occasionally signed digital seals (印章) for official documents. Converting .dps to HEIC produces a slide-per-image deck in the same format iPhones shoot photos in - openable on any Apple device without WPS installed.

Outside China, .dps files arrive most often via supplier emails from Shenzhen factories, government procurement portals, or joint-venture partners. Western recipients without WPS Office face a wall: PowerPoint refuses to open the format, LibreOffice handles only a subset, and the official WPS for Windows installer adds telemetry many corporate IT teams won't allow. heic.now sidesteps the install entirely - upload the .dps, get compact HEIC slides back at roughly half the size of JPG equivalents, and review them on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad natively.

The converter renders each slide at presentation aspect (16:9 or 4:3, matching the source) and preserves embedded fonts where the CJK glyphs are available; HEVC encoding keeps dense Chinese glyph strokes crisper than JPG at comparable sizes. Animations and transitions flatten to their first frame, which is the expected behaviour for static distribution. If the slides need to reach Windows desktops or a chat channel, convert the output via /heic-to-jpg; for archival, bundle the slides with /heic-to-pdf and the deck becomes universally readable.

Reasons to convert DPS to HEIC usually come down to compatibility, file-size, or specific feature requirements. Common situations:

• An app or platform only accepts HEIC uploads.
• You need a feature unique to HEIC (e.g. transparency, vector scaling, animation, multi-page pages, etc.) that DPS doesn't provide.
• You're optimising file size — modern formats often produce smaller files than the older format you started with.
• You need a single archival format across a project so files behave consistently in the same viewer.

1. Open the DPS → HEIC tool on heic.now.
2. Drag your DPS file onto the drop zone, or click Select files. You can drop a whole folder of files at once.
3. The output is fixed to HEIC. If the format supports extra options (page size, transparency background, quality, EXIF stripping), tweak them in the right-hand panel.
4. Click Convert. The job runs on our server and finishes in a few seconds for typical photos.
5. Download the result. Files stay in storage for 24 hours and are then permanently deleted.

The entire flow is free for the first 10 jobs per day with no signup required. A free account doubles that quota; a premium plan removes the limit entirely.

• If Chinese characters render as tofu boxes, the source embedded a proprietary font - ask the sender to re-export with fonts embedded.
• Government .dps files sometimes contain signed seals as embedded images; these render correctly in the HEIC output.
• For slides with heavy animation, expect only the entry state to appear in the HEIC.
• Resize the source to 1920x1080 in WPS before export if you need full-HD slide images.
• Pair the HEIC output with /heic-to-pdf to create a portable deck for non-WPS recipients.