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One of the only functions that I still miss after moving to Revu from Acrobat is the ability to create a new pdf document from an image on your clipboard. I am not talking about adding an image to an existing pdf, that works ok. My previous work flow with Adobe was: Win+Shift+S to open the snipping tool and create a…
Hey folks, I’m a Product Designer at Bluebeam, and I’m currently working on improving the Revu onboarding experience for new (and new-ish) Revu users. I'm really hoping to get some feedback from the community about your experience learning how to use Revu. Specifically, I'd really like to dive into the following questions:…
Transitioning from Revu for iPad to Bluebeam Mobile Bluebeam is evolving how teams access drawings, perform markups, collaborate, and manage Studio Sessions & Projects. As part of this evolution, Revu for iPad was officially retired and removed from the App Store on December 31, 2025. It is no longer supported or available…
Hi everyone! February is all about appreciation, so this month we’re celebrating the Bluebeam features, tools, or workflows that just clicked for you. The feature you rely on daily, the workflow that finally made sense, or the tool you’d be lost without. This challenge is about sharing what you love using in Revu and…
We have new dates scheduled for our Bluebeam Certified Instructor (BCI) program. This comprehensive 4-day virtual course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to teach and train others in using Revu effectively. This certification not only enhances your teaching skills but also provides access to…
I am looking for a way to organize my existing layers on a project that I am working on. I have yet to find a way to move the layer to a sub group. In this example I would like to move all my overlays to one group (Overlays would then contain Power, HVAC & Roof).
I am open to purchasing a higher license, but first I want to see if this will work like I am hoping it will. My company adds user data in a spreadsheet (e.g. IP Addresses, SN, etc), and we would like that info to go directly into our as built drawings. The idea being that we would only have to update the information in…
I'm using the mobile app for iPhone and my project recently stopped updating all the changes I make on my laptop. I'm currently running back and forth taking pictures of different details and going back to the building to layout work for my guys. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I hope it's something really dumb…
Add folders for studio sessions to organize the list of recent Studio sessions. Some of our clients utilize one Studio session per deliverable on large projects that have multiple reviewers. It can be quite a task to find the one studio session for a smaller project amidst the rows and rows of studio sessions per…
I'm wondering if anyone has ever discovered a workaround for Revu requiring admin rights to install updates. This has become unwieldy and inconvenient for our users. I was thinking of experimenting with giving users full control on some program folders or assets but I thought I would reach out so I'm not reinventing the…
Please allow changes to pdf files in sessions on initial upload. My specific request is that for newly uploaded files we be able to rename them, add bookmarks, page labels, links, add/remove pages, fix custom markup columns. There could be a time limit, such as an hour; or up until a markup is added; then it is locked down…
In Bluebeam (local and web), we need to verify PDFs are ADA accessibility compliant with the upcoming April 2026 implementation/enforcement of Federal Law. https://www.ada.gov/resources/2024-03-08-web-rule/ This rule includes any future PDF documents posted on websites. Adobe and Microsoft already have built-in…
For anyone with color vision deficiencies, there is a way to make markups stand out from the drawing. On the menu bar select View—>Dimmer—>20% (or your choice) This fades the PDF but NOT the markups. I searched this discussion board and there were no results for colorblindness, colorblind, or color vision, so I thought I…
When detaching a PDF tab in Bluebeam, the new window does not include the full toolbar or markup tools. This makes side-by-side review difficult, especially on dual monitors. It would be very helpful if detached tabs could behave as full windows, similar to Adobe Acrobat. This would significantly improve workflow…
Please add an option to open bookmark links in separate window. This will allow people reviewing drawings, reports, etc to open up a reference link without losing their place in the pdf they are working on.
Bluebeamの検索・置換機能を使うとPDFのテキストの検索および別のテキストへの置換が簡単にできて便利なのですが、Mark-upしたテキストについては検索のみで置換はできないようです。Mark-upしたテキストをフラット化すれば置換はできるのですが、置換するとフラット化を元に戻す(Unflatten)ことが出来なくなります。Mark-upしたテキストも置換できる機能が追加されると便利です。
Hi everyone, In light of the new ADA Title II regulations, many state and local governments — and the vendors who work with them — need their digital documents to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 24, 2026 (or 2027 for smaller jurisdictions). This includes PDFs that end up on public websites or portals. I’m trying to…
Please provide the ability to limit synchronize views to selected views and not all of them. Currently the only option is to synchronize all views, making it impossible to have other pdf views open that are unaffected. It requires constantly triggering the syncro setting on/off, or opening an entirely new bluebeam instance…
Currently, markups that are filtered out they are shown grey. Please add options beyond grey to allow also 1) Not in view, 2) shaded but in color. Another nice option would be if your arrow hovers over a filtered comment for it to be shown in color.
Hi All, When I Slip Sheet in Revisions from the Batch menu I already have to manually match my files due to filenames issues. The frustrating part for me is that I also have to manually add the Set Tags because of drawing format. Is there a way to have BB autofill the tags from the Current Matched pages to the Revised…
How do I figure out what the uncompleted actions are?
What is the schedule for enabling Cloud to allow batch stamping and signing of pdfs along with digital signatures as is available in Revu on Windows? It would be most helpful to be able to access, stamp, and sign drawings on an ipad instead of carrying laptops.
About 4/5ths of the way through the 21.8 MSI installation, a Custom Action named Call_LaunchShellExplorer is trying to open a .bat in such a way that Windows is prompting the user to select which program to use to open it. For now, we have simply added a transform to prevent that CA from executing. Has anyone else seen…
When I add digital signatures, the window doesn't close after I'm done. It doesn't freeze. I cannot change locations on the document. It will stay open and let me repeat the exact process but never closes. I have to go to Task Manager and close Revu. Any thoughts? Thanks,
I run a Mac in my construction office. It is great, but the only point of friction is Bluebeam Revu. I have run Parallels with Windows, in the past, to keep Revu on my computer but (although it shouldn't) it inevitable slows the machine a little. I am currently using a sub-standard PDF viewer with limited construction…
Did something change in Bluebeam on December 17th? Up through December 16th, the email subject line for all of my incoming Bluebeam invites were formatted with the project file numbers, name of municipality/project, and the submission type. Starting December 17th, the subject line for all of my Bluebeam invites say "You've…
Hi, support for PDF/A and all the different versions 1,2,3, a,b,u is not very common among all the different pdf-software out there. However all the more important is to have a good implementation and support for PDF/A in our best pdf-software Bluebeam-Revu and we actually need it very urgently. But PDF/A is just…
I have noticed when saving a file as PDF from Word the are sometime several bookmarks listed as "1". Bookmarks are created using Word headers, but there are never any headers named "1". Does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent it?
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In our new lighting projects, we are tasked with adding barcodes to each lighting fixture in a diagram. When printed, these barcodes can be scanned to control the lighting fixtures. It would be ideal to have an option to generate quick, generic barcodes instead of taking pictures, saving them, and then adding them as JPG…
I've just updated a drawing that was about 40mb originally with a custom count of the trees on the site - about 400 of them. This has increased the file size just ever so slightly to 3,376mb!!! Has anyone else come across such an issue?
We use several Custom Columns as part of our Markups List Summary that we export with every project that includes model numbers, model descriptions, spec sheet URLs, etc. Every time we open Revu, most or all of our Custom Columns are missing and we have to re-import an XML file to add our Custom Columns back. We have tried…
I seem to have quite a few tools that are not accessible. How do i activate them?
Ok, so I've been out of the loop for a little while now, but I'm trying to brainstorm a way to improve my workflow. I vaguely remember there being some sort of feature where you can edit the Comment field of a text box to something like {{Subject}} and then that text box will display its Subject automatically. I can't, for…
Am I missing something? I was previously using revu ipad in the field for viewing drawings and scaling plans. I have recently updated to a bluebeam subscription and downloaded the new app on the ipad, I have not been able to figure out how to scale on the ipad. I have been able to do this on the web app on my computer but…
Some of the people in my team are using the 2020 and I'm using the current one. it seems that they don't see my markups. only the users with the current can see it. can someone explain to solve this issue? Thanks!
This question might suited for @Shawn Dawson regarding search button on the cloud session. Will we see this function in the future? we deal with 100s of pages and it helps having a search. thanks!
I am looking to create a standardized profiles with custom columns for markups. I have been creating profiles to test out this function, however when switching between profiles the custom columns are not changing to match what I have saved to each profile. For example, I am still getting Profile 1 columns for Profile 2 and…
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