Flat Pack overview & setup

What Flat Pack does

Flat Pack is a PowerPoint add-in that flattens and secures your presentations in one click. It converts your slides to a protected PDF (or a flattened PowerPoint) with the same encryption Adobe Acrobat Pro applies, without leaving PowerPoint.

• Flattens your PowerPoint slides into images, so text and shapes can no longer be selected, copied, or edited.
• Lets you exclude specific objects from flattening (mark them Do Not Flatten) so hyperlinks stay clickable and animations keep playing.
• Secures and encrypts the output PDF, with control over whether it can be printed or edited.
• Can convert PowerPoint text boxes into fillable PDF form fields.
• Lets you choose the output image quality.

System requirements

	Windows	Mac
Office	Microsoft Office 2010–2016	PowerPoint 2016 or newer
OS	Windows 7–10	Any Mac version

Installation

Windows

1. Purchase Flat Pack for Windows and download the setup file.
2. Run the setup file to add Flat Pack as a PowerPoint add-in.

Mac

1. Purchase Flat Pack for Mac and download the latest installer package.
2. Run the installer.
3. The first time you install Flat Pack, you also need to manually add the Flat Pack.ppam file into PowerPoint — instructions for this are included with your initial download.

Subsequent updates only require you to rerun the installer; you don’t need to re-add the .ppam file again.

Documents folder access

The Mac installer creates a Flat Pack Secured Files folder inside your Documents folder. If PowerPoint denies the permission request during install, Flat Pack won’t be able to find this folder later and PDF creation will fail with a path error. Rerun the installer and grant the requested Documents/add-in permissions if prompted.