There are many ways you can flatten and secure your TPT products that are in a PDF format. I'm giving you step-by-step directions for using Adobe Acrobat. Flattening and securing? What does that even mean and why do I need to do it? Sometimes you hear terms floating around and you wonder what in the world you are supposed to do. Questions start zipping around your brain faster than Harry Potter finding the snitch. Flattening and securing are two of those terms that can get you all worked up. No worries! I'm going to walk you through the simple step-by-steps and show you how you can flatten and secure your TPT resource PDFs using Adobe Acrobat. This tutorial will at least stop this particular flow of questions zipping around in your brain. Let's first talk about the meaning of those two terms. Flattening means to merge everything on a page into one layer. This helps keep clipart from being lifted directly from the page. Many TPT clipart artists require their art to......