Prevent customer from copying presentation material

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I will be giving a presentation a a customer this week. They have made a
point several times of saying they do not wish to pay for my training
material, which is fine. They however have made several requests to have a
CD with a copy of the presentation to show during the training. I have
mentioned I would be glad to plug in my laptop to the projector at the proper
time - or have it on a thumb drive and use that to start the presentation -
however they insist that will not work for their needs as they have many
things to do that day.

Other than my internal "fishy" alarm sounding I am trying to give them the
benefit of the doubt. I would like to know if there is a way to copy the
presentation to a CD to give to them but they would only be able to view it
and nothing else. Can someone tell me how?

Thanks!

Marsha
 
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha ...

Of course your "fishy" alarm should be going off. There are only a few
reasons for insisting on your material on a CD. The worrisome one is to
burn a quick copy for their own use later.

I would strongly suggest that you look at SecurePack. It will bundle the
presentation into an executable file that can have several types of
expiration criteria set (date, # of shows, etc.). It is not free, but
considering the value of the material you are protecting, it isn't expensive
either.
http://skp.mvps.org/securepack/

Now, should they be less than honorable, they can not get at the
presentation file. They can still take screen captures of the slides --
since anything that is displayed on a monitor can be copied -- there is no
way around that. However, if you make the exe file expire the day after the
training, they will probably miss their window to do that.


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Marsha

What Bill said - but also...

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

I'd probably go for the PDF or 'screen grab' route.
Click to expand...

But with either of those, they'd still be able to keep a copy of the
presentation for later use.

I'd go back to what Bill said (but would add "John John John")

Then I'd come back here:
 
Marsha,

One other afterthough - you could add a unobtrusive watermark on all your
slides... either a small (c) etc etc on the edge, or a large watermark that
sits below all the content. So even if they grab the content.... it would
make it harder to remove your 'mark'

TAJ
 
We already worked this out, young 'un. I'm OLD. ;-)

And I had a college job in a print shop where there was another employee named
Marsha. So of course ...
 
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