Cynthia said:
We're having an impossible time trying to print a password-protected
PowerPoint presentation. We have it protected only for modifying, not for
opening, but it will not allow the viewer to print the document at all. It
will print only blank pages (with no error messages at all, by the way).
How can we permit people to print the protected document but still protect
it from editing/revision? We are currently using PowerPoint 2002 and we
need to be able to e-mail the presentation to others for printing.
Appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks.
Well, I'm not sure what exactly the issue is.
I just ran a couple of tests here. I created a one-slide presentation in PPT
2002 and gave it a modify password. I then closed that presentation, closed
PPT, and then reopened PPT and then used File/Open to open the presentation.
When prompted for the password, I just clicked Read Only.
Here are my print results --
In PPT 2002, File/Print and choosing Slides in the "print what" options
doesn't do anything. Choosing Handouts doesn't do anything, either. So I'm
not quite sure how you're able to even get a blank page out of it, to tell
the truth!
In PPT 2003, File/Print and choosing Slides in the "print what" options
prints the slide as expected. Choosing Handouts prints the handout as
expected.
In the PPT 2003 Viewer, Ctrl+P brings up a modified print dialog -- it only
allows printing 1/page slides. But it did indeed print.
I suspect that no printing was "by design" in PPT 2002, but that the
behavior was purposely changed in PPT 2003 and the 2003 Viewer.
Since it seems your users are using PPT 2002, I think I'd probably create a
PDF of the presentation slides and send that to them for printing.
