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Mohit - 14 Dec 2007 10:49 GMT

Hi All,
I have made a presentation. Now I want to release this presentation
into the market in the form of CD. So I want that my presentation can
not be copied by any one from the CD i.e. user must always require CD
in the drive to for running or seeing the presentation.
How can I achieve this??
Thanks in advance.

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TAJ Simmons - 14 Dec 2007 11:18 GMT

Mohit,

if you provide a cd - then it can be copied !

You can make it harder to copy though...

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

cheers
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> Hi All,
> I have made a presentation. Now I want to release this presentation
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> How can I achieve this??
> Thanks in advance.

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Mohit - 14 Dec 2007 12:23 GMT

Thanks a lot TAJ.

> if you provide a cd - then it can be copied !

So is there some other way, apart from CD, to distribute my
presentation and still remained uncopied???

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Steve Rindsberg - 14 Dec 2007 20:05 GMT

> Thanks a lot TAJ.
>
> > if you provide a cd - then it can be copied !
>
> So is there some other way, apart from CD, to distribute my
> presentation and still remained uncopied???

Think a bit about what you mean by "copied".

Obviously you don't want users to be able to copy the original PPT file to
their own HDD.

What about making screenshots of the slides though? If you let me display
someting on my screen, I can probably capture it as images.

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David Webb - 15 Dec 2007 01:44 GMT

How about saving the presentation as a PDF file and then safeguard its contents
from printing, copying, or modifications?

Software.com < http://www.software995.com/ > offers very reasonable utilities to
that.

One of their products, called Signature995, can be used to restrict printing,
modifying, copying text and images for PDF documents.

You would also need PDF995 and maybe PDFEdit995 to create the PDF file. All
three utilities are freeware (with banner ads at startup).

I am not affiliated with this company, I'm only offering you an alternative
suggestion, as you requested.

Good luck!

> Thanks a lot TAJ.
>
> > if you provide a cd - then it can be copied !
>
> So is there some other way, apart from CD, to distribute my
> presentation and still remained uncopied???

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alexbear88@gmail.com - 17 Dec 2007 04:34 GMT

Protect your PowerPoint from unauthorized edit, I have a suggestion
which is to convert your PowerPoint to video, or burn to DVD, If you
burn your PowerPoint to DVD or CD, you can also add some information
about your company and products, so customers can view your company or
products on TV, and share with others , that's really an good ads. But
they can do nothing with the PowerPoint presentation except watching.
How about this idea?
Use software like Acoolsoft PPT2DVD can convert PowerPoint to video
and burn to a really DVD or CD disc.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html

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Alex Cahell - 17 Dec 2007 08:08 GMT

Watermark each slide of presentation & convert it to video format (.avi for
example)
http://www.geovid.com/Presentation_to_Video_Converter/

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regrads,
Alex Cahell

> Hi All,
> I have made a presentation. Now I want to release this presentation
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> How can I achieve this??
> Thanks in advance.

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Mohit - 17 Dec 2007 12:34 GMT

Many Thanks to all of you for your replies!!

>One of their products, called Signature995, can be used to restrict printing,
>modifying, copying text and images for PDF documents.

Hi David, even using PDF, my PDF file can be copied by anyone from the
CD.

>convert your PowerPoint to video
>Watermark each slide of presentation & convert it to video format

Both these approach also have the same problem of getting file
copied.

May be I was unclear in explaining the real problem before.
What I want is that user should always require CD in the drive for
seeing the contents. I want that my original file(may be it in any
file format) can not be copied on the system and be viewable from
without CD. Even though it can be copied but then it should become
useless for the user to see the contents from his machine without CD.

Is there some way I can make it CD dependable?

Thanks again!

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David Webb - 17 Dec 2007 16:43 GMT

A far as I know, you're asking for the impossible. Even if you could restrict a
normal file copy of the contents, there's always a way make an ISO image of the
CD media that will bypass all protection methods.

> Many Thanks to all of you for your replies!!
>
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>
> Thanks again!

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