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Re: Studio Session Permissions - Markups List
There are a lot of posts with the subject of difficulties in mass management of Bluebeam Sessions. Hopefully there is some work in dev to improve this, but I have not seen a whole lot of feedback on these posts.
Would the process be more streamlined with changing the practice to leave redlines alone? Or are you only transferring redlines that have not been completed?
We have PMs taking snapshots of entire sheets and pasting them in to keep sets updated. That wrecks the PDF/Markup functionality and is certainly not feasible for the volume you shared.
Wonder if the every-two-weeks idea could be changed to be when markups are completed? That way you could just upload a new clean set, assuming there would be a period when no review and comment were happening, and production could catch everything up.
Re: Options for Prime Portal
The Bluebeam Prime Portal is a BB admin site that retains the details of current, archived and finished Studio Sessions and Projects.
It's end of life is December 2025 and my question is how much will the Revu 21 subscription management portal handle this function.
I work for a reseller and my clients are asking about this.
Thank you
Vinnie
Vincent
Re: Importing Bookmarks from Existing to New PDFs
I agree. Importing and exporting bookmarks would be extremely helpful.
Re: Importing Bookmarks from Existing to New PDFs
I also would like to advocate for the ability to import bookmarks. It would be an additional function that seems inherent if you allow for exporting.
Re: Importing Bookmarks from Existing to New PDFs
There is a work around I use for this. You have to relink all the bookmarks, but you don't have to rewrite them at least.
Essentially, since you can't move the bookmarks, just move the pages from your new document into the old document with the bookmarks and save as.
Save the existing PDF with the bookmarks with a new name. > Delete all but 1 page of the PDF. > Paste all the pages of the new PDF into the one with bookmarks. > Delete the original page from the PDF. > You now have your existing bookmark structure in your new PDF. > Go through your pages and right click each bookmark when on the correct page "set to current view".
Chase
Re: Importing Bookmarks from Existing to New PDFs
I also often have to package documents, assembling documents from multiple sources in a single one. I would like if there were an easy way to preserve the bookmarks when combining pdf and inserting pages.
I would also like to see a "bookmark manager" tool so we can reorder and modify the bookmarks structure more easily than manually one by one. And a automatic bookmark creation tool that recognizes text headers rather than only "page region" or "page labels".
Like MPham I have found pdf-xchange to do much better in that area for now..
Re: Importing Bookmarks from Existing to New PDFs
I tried your suggested method and opened my older PDF plans with all my bookmarks and replaced all the pages from new plot. Initially it works well. The bookmarks are preserved and point to the newly replaced pages. However as soon as I save-as all all the bookmarks break. "Audit Bookmarks" confirm that they are all broken.
Re: ✴️ Feature Highlight: Help Button in Revu Menu
BB certainly has a powerful Help menu. It is fun to explore all the menus when helping someone, slowly working our way over to Help and showing them how they can always find the answer there.
✴️ Feature Highlight: Erase Content Tool
Need to clean up a PDF without affecting other areas on the page? The Erase Content tool in Bluebeam Revu lets you remove specific content like text, lines, or images, without messing with your markups or annotations. It’s great for clearing out outdated details or tidying up documents before sharing.
Have you ever needed to delete something from a PDF but keep the rest intact?
#Bluebeamin30: Erase Content #Bluebeam #BluebeamRevu #BluebeamIt
Marco M
Studio Session Permissions - Markups List
One part question one part idea for y'all today. My office uses studio session extensively to redline and coordinate with several different consultant teams at once. A PM will have to manage 2-7 Bluebeam sessions at once, one per project site. Our field reps will be in and out of 20-40 sessions per week. The firm standard is to have updated progress sets printed with redlines transferred every two weeks during CD’s, and at least weekly during the last two months of the project. Right know when we update our sheets, we are having to save the files out, then export the markups, then open the new file, import the mark up, and then save again and finally upload to the sessions. The export markup function is grayed out in sessions even for admins although being able to make markups and alert markups are both applied permissions. The files are hundreds of pages long, and each session will have several, so manually copying over the redlines is not an option, and would also change its owner to who pasted it not who originated the redline. This takes 5 minutes per file, which really starts to add up and eat into the workday.
My question is - does anyone know of a work around or smoother workflow for keeping both sheets updated along with redlines?
My idea is - add a toggle for access to the markup list drop down within applied permissions, this would allow for session admins to delegate redline transferring to each set lead without having to give them document upload rights. Id love to hear yalls thoughts on this!
