preventing unauthorized distribution of powerpoint presentations

[Guest]

Is there a method to prevent unautorized copying of presentations created in
PowerPoint? Can it be made for screen presentation only, read only,
unprintable, or some combination which would deter the making of unauthorized
duplicates? Any info would be of assistance.

 

[Echo S]

Is there a method to prevent unautorized copying of presentations created in
PowerPoint? Can it be made for screen presentation only, read only,
unprintable, or some combination which would deter the making of unauthorized
duplicates? Any info would be of assistance.

Password protect a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00038.htm

 

[Guest]

I'm very interested in hearing from people who have tried one of these systems,
and whether they feel it worked for their needs.
My needs are" I want to distribute an autorun CD with multiple slideshows,
sounds, graphics, etc. I can use the password to prevent somebody else from
editing the PPS shows, I've played around and probably can figure out how to
stop people from easily printing the slides. The expiration features on
some of the
add-ins look like they could be useful.
But how do I stop somebody from just copying the CD and distributing it to
all
their friends?

Pete

 

[Guest]

In PowerPoint 2002 you can password protect opening the file.

ie. you need to know the password to view the presentation. Therefore the
file can be copied many times by many people but unless you give them the
password they cant see the content.

Only problem would be if someone with the password lets users, who should
not see the presentation, have the password.

regards
Max

 

[Guest]

I've read all I can find on this subject including PP Tools, but not found a
good solution other than the one in PPTools suggested by Glenna. I've not
yet tried it. Has anyone tired it, and after resizing the PPS does it
drastically increase the size of the file?
Thanks,
KJ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've read all I can find on this subject including PP Tools, but not found a
good solution other than the one in PPTools suggested by Glenna. I've not
yet tried it. Has anyone tired it, and after resizing the PPS does it
drastically increase the size of the file?

It's hard to say; which specific suggestion of Glenna's is this in response
to? If it's the PPTools Protect add-in, the free demo lets you try it out
yourself. The effect it has on the file size will depend on several factors.
The higher the resolution of the "target" setting, the larger the resulting
files will be, but depending on what's in your original presentation, the
result might actually be smaller.

In any case, it doesn't touch your original.