Flat Pack Preferences / Options

Export Settings

Image settings affects to what format powerpoint will export your slides.

Image Quality:

1. Low
   If you need a smaller size final file, then low is a good setting to choose. It halves the original slide size

2. Medium (~150dpi)
   This is the normal setting PowerPoint uses to export your slides to images.

3. High (~ 250dpi)
   Before exporting, the slide is increased by 2x and then exported and resized back to slide size, to ensure a higher quality image as a result

4. Maximum (~300dpi)
   This setting blows up the slide to 4x its original size, and the reinserted back to slide size. It is the best quality, but comes at a cost of the final file size being quite large.

Recommended Setting: High is great for most exports

Image Type

PNG - A lossless image format. This is a good option if you are flattening a lot of text and you don't want the edges to be blurry. The downside of using PNG is, that the file size is bigger.

JPG - An image format with compression. This works really well for images / slides with lots of colour, but all the text has remained editable (not part of the flattened image). It compresses the image enough so that it is still of high quality, but also has a lower file size

... BMP, TIF still to be finished

_Recommended Setting: _PNG if you are flattening text and images. JPG if you are only flattening clipart and other images.

Flattened Image Settings

Insert as background on each slide - This inserts the flattened image into the slide as a background image.

Insert as image to back of each slide - This inserts the flattened image into the slide as a normal image right at the back. The user will be able to select and move the image around. Some prefer this option because of common printing issues in Powerpoint Presentations.

_Recommended Setting: _Insert as background on each slide

Restrictions

Owner Password

By customising the permission settings, you can restrict users from performing certain actions (such as printing, editing the document, or copying text).

To customise these restrictions you need to first set an Owner's Password. Whenever someone tries to do something you have restricted (for example copying an image), the PDF reader would not allow it, but instead ask for the owner password.

Make sure the Owner Password is something only you know.

Recommended Setting: Set it to something only you know

Printer Settings

To restrict printing, select the Printing Allowed drop down.

• _None: _prevents printing altogether.
• _Low Resolution: _choose this setting if you only want the user to print in low quality (for example when artwork is not meant to be printed in high quality).
• _High Resolution: _this allows the user to print as normal with high quality

Recommended Setting: High Resolution

Changes Allowed

• None: If you want your user to not make any changes whatsoever to the document (take note that means even if you put in Form Fields, the user will not be able to see them or edit them)
• Filling in Forms: If you have form fields (editable PDF) in your document, you need to choose at least this setting for the user to be able to customize them

• _Inserting, deleting, and rotating pages: _If you want the user to be able to move around the order of the pages (rotate, delete or add empty ones)

• Commenting, filling in form fields: lets the user add comments to the PDF, fill in form fields and sign with certain PDF readers

• Any except extract pages: This allows the user to do all of the above, but not allow them to rotate, delete, or change the order of pages

Recommended setting: Commenting, filling in form fields (in case you ever want to make it editable)

Enable Copying

To allow users to copy content out of the document, even if they can't make any changes to the document itself, select Enable copying of text, images, and other content.

_Recommended Setting: _Do not enable copying

Screen Reader

To allow access to content by screen readers for users with disabilities, select Enable text access for screen reader devices for the visually impaired.

_Recommended Setting: _Enable screen readers

User Password

This will ask the user to enter a password before even opening the PDF. You will need to share this password for anyone wanting to open the PDF.

Recommended Setting: Do not set a user password. It tends to annoy your faithful buyers more than it deters those that are copying

Compatibility and Encryption

These two options are more technical and just mean what level of encryption will be applied to the document.

Recommended Setting: Adobe 7 or later

Recommended Setting: Encrypt all document settings