nadish Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 The primary reason for us looking at your PicturesToExe is to secure the images given to customers.However I cant find info on your web site on security.To me this is a feature and should be listed as such.Please could you indicate how PicturesToExe secures the images and what the risks are.For instance, is distributing on DVD for play in DVD players any less secure than as a computer-only CD?I have noted forum comments that no protection is 100% guaranteed, so am not expecting this level of protection. Just a reasonable level of protection.Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 16, 2007 Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 By security I'm assuming you mean the security of the images within the slideshow. Essentially there is no way to absolutely be certain that images won't be stolen when you give customers access to them.A show delivered in DVD format is lower in resolution so even if your customers decompile them (and there are plenty of tools on the web for that purpose) they will not have high resolution images amenable to making quality prints larger than about 4x6. An executable file is the safest in terms of requiring more computer skills to extract but any savy customer can use any readily available screen capture tool to capture the slides at display resolution. So once again, if you keep the resolution down to about 800x600 then they won't be getting much.The ideal way to protect your investment is to embed a visible watermark copyright which you can do with PTE. If you place it in a conspicuous place where it is difficult to use a clone tool such as Photoshop, then it offers some security as would the word copyright splashed across the center of the image. But the issue is to decide which is the less invasive. You don't want to turn off your customers by them not being able to see the beauty of your images.PTE allows you to make executable files which cease to operate after so many viewings, so many days, weeks, etc., but when you place a file like this on a CD or DVD there is no way for this security to work because it requires that the program make changes to the executable code and that means it must write to the media. On write-once media that's not possibl.The bottom line is PTE has as much security as any software producing images for viewing. It's not a perfect world and some trust must be between you and your clients.Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted August 16, 2007 Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 I agree with everything that Lin has said, in particular about adding a copyright notice to your images.There is a useful (free) tutorial on how to do this, on my website.Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted August 16, 2007 Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 COPYING ITEMS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE TIME BEGAN -- one reads in the news about "masters" painting's discovered as copies all the time - patents being infringed upon etc- you might better worry about dealing with only "honest" customers and hope they stay honest:)ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted August 16, 2007 Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 COPYING ITEMS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE TIME BEGAN -- one reads in the news about "masters" painting's discovered as copies all the time - patents being infringed upon etc- you might better worry about dealing with only "honest" customers and hope they stay honest:)remember "where there is a will there is a way"ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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