Preventing Saving PPS from Website as PPT

[Guest]

How can I lock a Web presentation to limit saving it only as a PPS, not a
PPT? We don't want downloaders to be able to alter the original PPS.
As is, when uploaded as a PPS to our website, the file can be saved as a
PPT. How can we prevent that?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Moshe,

See this page
Password or protect a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00038.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Steve Rindsberg]

How can I lock a Web presentation to limit saving it only as a PPS, not a
PPT? We don't want downloaders to be able to alter the original PPS.
As is, when uploaded as a PPS to our website, the file can be saved as a
PPT. How can we prevent that?

A PPS is just a PPT with a different file extension. It offers you no security
whatever. None.

Consider converting to PDF with password protection or HTML (but not PPT's own
html exports, as PPT can "roundtrip" them back into editable PPT files). There
are several available. Google "powerpoint to html" for links. I'm partial to
the first one on the list, having had a hand in its creation. ;-)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your rapid response. It was very interesting. It didn't exactly
solve my problem, but that might have been due to my wording. I learned a lot
from the links you offered & have bookmarked them.

Sincerely,
Moshe

 

[Guest]

Dear Steve,
Thanks for your reply.
A PPS, as you surely know, opens directly as a slide show, preventing
unnecessary looking "behind the scenes." I realize that other than that,
there are no differences and anyone can open a PPS in PowerPoint to go behind
the scenes. Our objectives were to, for usability sake, offer the show with
less clicks and, for correct business practice, not to leave Pandora's box
open.
That's all. We just want it to stay a PPS. Do you know how to ensure that
users will only save the file as a PPS?
I have created a PDF from the show, but it runs through the animations with
no regard for my timing. Do you know how to tell Adobe PDFMaker to keep my
timing?

TIA,
Moshe
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[Steve Rindsberg]

A PPS, as you surely know, opens directly as a slide show, preventing
unnecessary looking "behind the scenes." I realize that other than that,
there are no differences and anyone can open a PPS in PowerPoint to go behind
the scenes. Our objectives were to, for usability sake, offer the show with
less clicks and, for correct business practice, not to leave Pandora's box
open.
That's all. We just want it to stay a PPS. Do you know how to ensure that
users will only save the file as a PPS?

Aha, I see. Security isn't the problem, ease of use is. Ensuring that the user
gets a PPS should be fine then. It may be a browser/web server issue then.

This may help:

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

I have created a PDF from the show, but it runs through the animations with
no regard for my timing. Do you know how to tell Adobe PDFMaker to keep my
timing?

PDF doesn't support shape animation at all, and it doesn't support all the same
slide transitionst that PPT does, but it can support slide-to-slide transition
timing; I don't think PDFMaker picks up and transfers that information though.

 

[Guest]

Did you every find a solution to this issue. I am having the very same issues
and so far none of the soluions they have offered have worked. Please my
posting on this site.

 

[Mike M.]

pps, ppt makes no difference. Open PowerPoint on your machine. Navigate to
a pps file and open. You can do the same things to it as you can a ppt.
The file extension is changed so that PowerPoint and the PowerPoint viewer
will automatically start playing the presentation when you double click it.
No more, no less.

HTH