Export as flat PDF?

I have DRAW but also have Designer X6. Is it possible to publish to PDF as a completely flattened document? I'm trying to create a multipage file where all the text and line art are flattened like a JPEG. I've tried several different settings in the "Publish to PDF" menu and no matter what I am able to reimport the layers and objects as objects. I want this flat so nobody can rerended and steal my artwork, if that makes sense. If it were just one document I'd just export each sheet as a JPG and use that BUT I have 20 pages. Any suggestions would appreciated!! Thanks

Parents

No Data

Reply

Myron over 8 years ago

You'd have to save a version of the file with all the layers flattened i.e. all shapes and such on Layer 1. Then make the pdf.
Also if you look at the pdf settings there is an option to password protect the pdf. Under security "Permission Password" just set Printing to low res too.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Cancel

Children

turbo6 over 8 years ago in reply to Myron

Thanks for the reply. This particular file was created in Designer (DES file). The document itself has some artwork that our company will be selling, so what I did was put semi transparent words over the artwork to make it harder to rip off. But the issue is our customers have the Corel X6 suite, so they could download my PDF and remove the font and use all my objects. So basically getting everything for free. In designer there is no flatten function, just group or ungroup.

Ultimately what I ended up doing was exporting each sheet as a JPG and then created a new DES and imported the sheets back into the pages. So everything was flattened, and I exported at a lower dpi so the quality was reduced on top of it. That worked, it was just a long work around having to export each sheet. And while I get the password permission option, I'd have to give them the password to open the file, and then they could import it into Corel just the same and take the artwork. I'm just surprised the PDF publish option doesn't have a flatten option. In X4 if you chose the "For Web" setting it would flatten it but X6 has obviously changed that .
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Cancel