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Callout arrow line thickness resize without adding line around textbox
Good Morning,
I have a product feature that myself and a lot of my coworkers would like to see added to Revu. When marking up a pdf and using the callout tool, I frequently find myself wanting to resize the line thickness for the leader. The problem with the callout function is that the line thickness for the leader is tied to the line thickness to the text box. Most of the time we don't use lines around the text boxes, so the only solution to this is to separate your arrows and text boxes. This comes with the obvious downside that your arrows don't update automatically when you move the text, and it adds clutter to your markups. If there was a feature that separated the line thicknesses for callouts, this would be very useful.
Thanks!
PatFitz
Tool Set Management for Multiple Users
The current method for distributing shared Tool Sets is inefficient, as it necessitates manual user intervention following each update; users must be individually notified and then import the updated sets themselves.
A more robust solution would involve hosting Tool Sets in a centralised repository that Revu can poll or sync with automatically, mirroring the existing mechanism used for managing Templates.
danielbl
Resume Count Keyboard Shortcut
It would be great to have the ability to add a keyboard shortcut for the Resume Count command in the context menu.
If a count object was selected a user could then type a single command to resume that count.
Tool Chest Locks
It would be beneficial to be able to add locks to the tool chest so that when you make a change, it does not automatically save. I have created custom tool chest for our company, so everyone just imports the tool chest into their system, and it does not come with a lock using that method.
Option to advance page when Synchronize Views > Page is active
Often when comparing different versions of documents there are added or removed pages. The Synchronize Views falls apart as soon as there this happens. You cannot use Sync > Document past the first place in the document where that happens. And the Sync > Page requires you to manually hit page down on one file, select the other one and hit page down; over and over and over. For large documents this is an enormous waste of time and is easily fixed.
Under preferences > general > navigation please add an option to "advance page with Synchronize Views > Page". Or a new Synchronize Views option to the same effect.
This will allow the user to align the document page views as they want (e.g. p8 on one, page 10 on the other), turn on Sync > Page, and when they press page up/down the documents will advance in step one page at a time from the place they were synced.
Re: 🗓️ June 2025 Challenge - Revu Remix!
I used Bluebeam on the iPad for a research project years back. We wanted to see how our current office space was being used to help plan for different types of spaces at our new office.
I took employee photos and placed them in a toolset (each one included additional information like their title and market sector they worked in). Then, I had a PDF of the current office floor plan, and several times a day, I would place the photos of the person where they were.
I used Status to indicate if they were working digitally or analog. And if it was anything of note, I used Capture to take a photo.
Since everything was date/time stamped, I was able to export to a .csv file and create a heat map of where our staff tends to migrate and how that typically changes throughout the day!
(I actually presented this at CHI BUG a few years ago 😉)
Carina
Re: 🗓️ June 2025 Challenge - Revu Remix!
I finally have one as of a couple days ago— I used Revu to mark up some PDF sheet music! 🎼 Sometimes I like to make revisions to arrangements or highlight areas of interest. It's really nice to be able to remove annotations when I don't need them anymore, too, and it looks a lot better than scribbles.
Reesa
Quick and Easy Page Extraction From Thumbnails View
For quick and easy page extraction, allow the user to drag selected thumbnail pages out of the Thumbnails view and into an open File Explorer window. PDF-XChange Editor and Adobe Acrobat allows this type of seamless extraction. Note that this simple method of extraction does not offer options, such as "delete pages after extracting". It's merely a drag and drop feature that saves a few extra extract clicks.
Automated page labels via bookmarks from Revit print dialog
I would like to be able to create page labels automatically via the bookmarks for documents created using the Revit print dialog.
Currently, PDFs created using the Revit print dialog (not the BB plugin) have bookmarks nested under a non-functioning bookmark called "Sheets". Because of this you need to do a few manual things before you can create page labels from bookmarks:
- Select the first bookmark (below the Sheets bookmark), hold shift, select the last bookmark.
- Click and drag to un-nest the bookmarks.
- Go into Page Labels and select Create Page Labels From Bookmarks.
- Ensure all pages are selected.
- Click ok.
This is a very common procedure that people need to remember to do every single time they create a PDF from Revit. (Spoiler alert: they rarely remember.) It would be great if there were some built-in function within Revu to handle this automatically.
Liz Larsen
Re: 🗓️ June 2025 Challenge - Revu Remix!
Inspired by an activity in a BUG meeting, I use it to do competitive or collaborative word search puzzles with my kids. Each person picks their mark up color. Then we all try to find all the words in the word search.
