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I'm creating a smart PDF from an existing PDF and have a series of textboxes that will have the exact same properties. When I finish formatting the first textbox and copy and paste. The only properties that are copied to the next textbox are the font and layout, but not the Format properties. I've been stuck with copying the textbox and manually changing the Format properties with each one but this just seems wrong to have to do. Anyone have any insight into why this is the case?

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This is a good one… @Adam1970 , you have some of the best in the Community working with you here, with @Shaya Birnbaum and @bcostlow.

I think they are on the right track with RE-setting (or PRE-setting) your sheet edge/margins to capture those "Clean" markups. Drawing a larger print area is going to re-frame everything with your original sheet treated sort of like an image inside that larger sheet. Therefore, the print drivers know all the markups are to be printed as they are in the frame of the page set up. If you can pre-define that and build your markup sets with those boundaries at a double or triple sheet size, seems like you could make this work.

Perfect example here of the computers only do what we tell them 8-)

Thanks everyone. I still feel like I am missing something. The screen shots below provide a different perspective on the problem.

1.Bluebeam lets you set a print area beyond the document boundary so I could print just the markups where they are beyond the boundary:

And I can print the document with the added space to accommodate the markups

But I cannot print the markups beyond the drawing boundary and the document together inspite of 1 above.

Again: what I am trying to print

The Document re-sizing approach above appears the only one that will allow me to make comment outside the drawing but it would require shrinking every drawing within the document boundaries before I begin an analysis. I am assuming also that it impacts scaling. It seems like a round about way of getting to where Bluebeam appears it may already have a solution. I am perplexed is the apparent ability to print markups outside the document boundary but the inability to include the document within that print area.

The area tool will actually accomplish both. While the Area tool's primary measurement is Area, it gives other dimensions as well.

The Length of an Area markups is actually the Perimeter, plus it also will give you a height and a width.(just remember that the height will always be on the y axis and the width will always be on the x axis)

As you can see, if you set up your markups list properly, you can actually achieve both of your goals with one markup.