Flat Pack for Power Point

Welcome!

This section provides an overview of Flat Pack is. It provides an overview of the major concepts in Flat Pack and links to the relevant documentation, which explore the concepts further and guides you how to make use of them with Flat Pack in Powerpoint.

What is Flat Pack?

Flat Pack is a Power Point add-in. After you have installed Flat Pack you will see it appear in your Power Point Ribbon as Flat Pack with all the options to create secured Powerpoint or PDFs.

System Requirements

In order to user Flat Pack in Powerpoint, you need to have Microsoft Windows with a minimum version of PowerPoint 2010 installed.

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Flattening

What is Flattening?

This is also known as merging all the different layers into one image. Flattening for Powerpoint means that all the different text boxes, shapes and images on a slide, get flattened into one image. After the flattening process has happened you cannot select any of the textboxes or shapes any more. They become uneditable. Only the flattened image remains.

Why Flatten?

If you make use of certain clipart or fonts in your Powerpoint, their terms of use often state that you need to flatten your slides before selling it onto your customers. Flattening also makes it harder to simply copy your work.

Further Reading

The following guides creating flattened powerpoints and creating flattened PDFs explore how you would achieve this with Flat Pack.

Securing

What is Securing?

Protected documents have restrictions that prevent users from printing, editing, or copying content in the document. If a document has restricted features, any tools and menu items related to those features are usually dimmed. For example, if you say that the user cannot print your PDF, when they go to File -> Print it will not allow it. They are forced to enter an owner's password instead. Extra restrictions might require the user to enter a password before even opening the file.

Why Secure?

After securing you can restrict what can be copied, printed or changed. However, although Adobe Acrobat and most other PDF readers will respect the encryption you have set up on PDFs, there are other programs that can crack any encryption you may set up. This is why flattening as well as securing is important.

Further Reading

These securing / encryption options are explored under Flat Pack Preferences.

Editable Documents

What are editable Powerpoints?

This usually means that some textboxes or objects have not been flattened. This enables the user to make changes to the textboxes to better fit their need.

What are editable PDFs?

Firstly, it might mean that the PDF contains form fields. The user only needs a program such as Adobe Reader or Chrome PDF Viewer and they can enter text into those form fields.

It could also mean that the PDF is not flattened. However, the user would then have to have a program such as Adobe Acrobat Pro to make any further changes to the PDF. As the Pro version of Adobe is rather expensive, this is not feasible for most users.

Further Reading

The section creating editable PDFs and creating editable Powerpoint explores how you would do this with Flat Pack.

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