Hi folks,

Well I can open and even copy a shape from inkscape and paste in to wps office, but it´s not a raster image I want, I would like to make custom shapes that can be edited in wps as vector files as well, like wps standard shapes.

I am not sure what format wps is using ..and where it stores the shapes, need to know that as well if someone knows?

Perhaps it is not possible in WPS, svg will not import as any editable format anyway, I tried some other formats like emf, wmf ..but nada.

it´s nice though that you can use WPS Office and use it´s shapes ..and just copy and paste in to inkscape, and add to your symbols etc or edit the shapes, so that route works..but it´s the other way around I would like to know if it´s possible, or if I could use some sort of converter.

If anyone knows?  thanks.

It would help to know:

• What OS?
• What version of Inkscape?

Sorry for not having responded to this for a while, I just thought it took a whole month and only one reply, so it felt kind of useless to get any information.

To answer..

• Windows 10

• 0.92.4

It´s pretty nice that you can just download wps templates with shapes/symbols..open wps and just copy some shapes and paste in to inkscape, and fully editable, but as mentioned, the other way around doesn´t work, if you copy from inkscape and switch to wps office and paste, then it will be a bitmap image.

However..if you save to svg for instance and open that as an image, strangely it seems to keep the resolution nice and fine and not pixeled when you scale that picture up inside of wps, but it somehow only regognize it as a picture container you can not edit, unlike shapes in wps.

So that´s the route I want, creating inkscape shapes and get them editable in wps as well.

I am not sure what kind of format wps uses for shapes you find in some templates, ivé tried many saved formats from inkscape but any such import just adds it as an object linked file and not as editable shapes.

I mean, they can not possible design templates and shapes purely by drawing freeform or editing shapes with the very limited tools there are for drawing in WPS, so how do they create those templates and in what formats.

Perhaps xml addons or something for templates, not sure if it is possible with the free version of wps 2019 which I have.

Just took a peek at the WPS site... they claim compatibility with pptx (xml powerpoint).

If true, then vector objects from Inkscape can be converted to pptx via LibreOffice (a fine ensemble itself), maybe retained as vectors in WPS.

The attached zip file has a pptx file containing a vector object from Inkscape.

Thank you Tyler, you know what, just before I saw your latest post now..I happened to have an older libre office version installed and I tried that to paste inkscape shapes in directly to libre office, and those are editable, so I just had a glance at that and I would probably have found a way to export I think, but I had to download a newer version of libre office.

the problem with the older version I had ..it looked horrible in screen resolution, don´t know what that was, so I am about to install and check the new libre office version, it seems to have some nice features wps simple don´t, connector snappings in a much better way and import of pdf documents to edit, though some complex pdf´s is messed up.

I used to work for a company that had a lot of retailer pdf´s files covering various flow meters, and we had to edit them to fit our sales, for editing we used nitro pro, which did a fine job at loading and maintaining objects properly without getting them displaced, in libre office they seem to go wonky, then on the other hand, just editing of elements was all it did good enough.

I have also worked with illustrator for floor plans and illustration sheets(gym instruction) that we printed out on metal sheets which then was mounted on the top of the gym machines, but that was 7 years ago.

Don´t have illustrator privately, and currently mostly using inkscape for my personal projects, apart from when I used it for my former company to do some small editing for the flow meter lab company.

Inkscape does some things really nicely, you can get shapes in to free fusion video editing, it fits well in to exporting out shapes to blender3D as well, which maintains the bezier handles to be edited in blender.

I also have a license of Lightwave3D (did some gym machine renders with that one) and it kind of works there as well, with a little help of some plugins to import inkscape svg or pdf to be edited as splines in Lightwave 3D, it´s not as editable as blender since blenders are bezier paths that needs to be converted to mesh once you are satisfied, but lightwaves are only none bezier splines.

Oh well that was probably too much info you do not need, Thanks for the checkup on this, I will get back once I have tested this.

/Michael

And yes, your attached file worked in wps, so I just need to install the latest libre office now, thanks.

I may start to record som inkscape vids, hopefully...my channel is currently mostly about lightwave ena blender tips.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDxRvcWi0V7RgW69O5Ax5Og

You might also be interested in Affinity Designer. Not FOSS, but a decent editor for multi-platform layouts. Sort of like Corel and Ai combined for less than a c-note. It really depends on your final destination(s).  I have it, but rarely use it.

Yes, thanks tyler..Affinity I have heard a lot good about from the lightwave Newtek forums, so I will have to study some youtube vids and see what it can do.

I also previously used Adobe Indesign and I am not sure if Affinity can sort of replace a lot of that on a personal basis, or if scribus is something that I more should look in to, though I hated how it looked like and

some others that used indesign regulary couldn´t stand scribus.

Then again..that would mostly be on personal project level or some minor client levels, if you are in the looks for Jobs and what they require, they do not ask a dot about either inkscape or affinity designer, it´s a lot..I mean a lot of Adobe creative suite with indesign, illustrator and photoshop

I had some schooling in illustrator and photoshop and practicly self taught for indesign, so while I like them, on a personal private level and their prescription models, I do not like the prescription models and thus I rather go for open source such as Krita and Inkscape, then again I need to find out how to still maintain skills in the Adobe series, it can be necessary to do so anyway.

Just tested the latest libre office version, had to start with presentation template of course, and save out to pptx, once in libre office..a little odd though that you have to click on the object first one time to select it, then click again on it(on the shape for it to be editable and access edit points either in the menu or right click to edit points.

But yes it works, and it may help out a lot to expande some wps designed word or pdf documents, apart from the lousy editing functions of shapes in wps, it´s quite slick in user interface and switching between spreadsheets in excel, word or powerpoint slides.

I would like to find tools for pdf flipbook pages that you can flip and have douple pages turn flip etc, can´t recall which software or tools that does that, flip builder sort of..but it there is a free option I would like to know.

So thanks again Tyler for checking this out and answering so quickly.

/Michael