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Hi @Carolyn. Could you use the Capture Tool (RC on a markup —> Capture)? Then, you could place numerous images cleanly in an album. Clicking on the Capture icon will open the image(s) and give you the ability to export to a folder.

The Markups List also provides access to exporting Capture media.

yeah thats wild. that legit just worked the way i intended. tech support just told me that bluebeam straight up didnt have that function. i appreciate it

What happens if you insert mailto:email@example.com as the link?

Another trick I've used is to save the PDF to Google Drive, and then resave it as a new PDF. Google Drive is basically rewriting the PDF when it converts it to its format so it's like step number 4 above.

I've been using a Logitech Gaming G915 Keyboard and G502 Mouse for a while now and it has been a game changing for me. The reason being is each device allows for user profiles depending on what software you are running. For example, the keyboard has 3 profile buttons at the top of the board and these "quick keys" instantly change the entire profile settings for the keyboard. I've set each of the 3 profiles to do different things and one of my profiles is strictly bluebeam, so when i hit the M2 button on my keyboard, it changes all the buttons to do things i've preselected it to do for bluebeam like quickly active certain measurement tools or even instantly type out long passwords for logging in. The mouse also I believe has 15 different points you can set to do a range of things and i use it alot to cycle between the mouse speeds when i'm trying to get my pointer to the right spot on a set of drawings or I also have it set to cycle specifically through bluebeam drawings. These are just a fraction of the things it can do but it you are in AEC and use blue beam…upgrade your keyboard and mouse setting because you can program them to do alot of the tasks you wish bluebeam had quick keys or shortcuts for.

There are various states that will grey out some of your tools. Security is one as @Luke Shiras has pointed out. A signed document will also do this and if the PDF is archival (PDF/A). There is a fourth state that is unknown to me still as I only see it once or twice a year, the file is greyed out for no apparent reason and only a rebiuld will fix it. You can access two of the four scenarios:

1. Turn off restrict changes

2. Remove Open PDF/A as locked

3. There is no appropriate solution to a password protected file. PDFs have a user/owner password combination. A user level password can typically be broken. An owner level password can not (in a reasonable time frame).

4. Unknown condition. Rebuild if source documents are available (best). Try to creats a new PDF from that file (sometimes works). and Finally print to PDF to generate an image duplicate, then OCR it if need be (worst option).

It's not exactly clear what the student is referring to. I work with Bluebeam and other apps in windowed or fullscreen. I've never seen the window grow (when in windowed mode) with multiple re-opens. When they say Status bar, do they mean the status bar in blubeam? Or do they mean the Taskbar of their OS? If they mean Bluebeam, then do they have a floating window detached from Bluebeam yet floating over bluebeam? Like this? (the floating window is covering my main bluebeam status bar):

While i have briefly run a floating window over Bluebeam main app, it's only long enough to drag it to another screen. Otherwise I run split view. There is no other way they could block their status bar in bluebeam unless they float a window over it. If you restart bluebeam all files start attached. So this description is unclear.

If they mean windowed mode and it's occluding their taskbar then that's not possible since taskbars take priority (unless they have their taskbar set to autohide, then maybe they might mistake it for blocking). Like below my instance of bluebeam is now behind my taskbar.

If it's an issue of the instance of Bluebeam slowly growing in size, then I'd ask if this is happening to other applicaitons. If it's specific to Bluebeam (and specific to the student it seems) then the easiest first step is for the student to reset their install. Profiles, over time, can do odd things and in my experience if someone has large cumbersome toolsets this can also be a contributor to poor performance. I've never seen a 'growing window' problem though. Best first step is always: ctrl+k > Admin > Reset. if the problem clears up then it's something that's accumulated in your profile or tools.

Never heard of that happening but I am curious what the cause/solution is.