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Top left corner of the PDF will be a small toolbar to reference how many items you have hidden. Click it to unhide.

It sounds like you might have some interface elements turned off? A screen shot might help understand better. Something you can try is to change your profile to a different one then back to the one you want. This can sometime "restart" the interface. Go to Revu (top left) > Profiles > pick any other profile that isn't checked currently

Then go back and choose the one that was checked previously. For example Revu > Profiles > Revu

Another thought, if you have a tool for each Assembly Type, you could assign a custom Number column for each Widget Type. All you would do then is input the number and type of Widgets in each assembly tool. As you add the different types of assemblies to the document, the widget columns would be populated with the widgets required. Total the widget columns and there you have it. Add a simple CSV export to excel. By the way, I thought widgets were way outdated and everyone was using thing-a-ma-gigs nowadays.

Gah! my question was incomplete- the ESC key does indeed finish the text, however it also kicks the user out of whatever tool was being repeated via the Reused Markup Tool.

I was hoping that there was a way to finish typing, hit a key combo, and then click the next arrow.
It's been bugging me, but I get that it's a pretty small savings, instead of the current flow: <esc>,<Q/k/T/W> then click the next arrow.

I would like to know, in the core plan, when I replace pages my markups are removed. How do I replace pages and keep al of my spaces and markups?

Check the box to replace page content only. This will leave the markups alone.

Chat GPT eventually gave me the answer, I just needed to go to Preferences > Image/Export > Images > Create Multi Page TIFFs.

Once I unchecked that option, REVU broke out each individual page into its own PDF file.

@Isaac.Harned and @Doug McLean have you off to a great start @Will Dellapenna on getting the information out of Revu.

For bringing it back into a PDF I have a couple of ideas that you could try, depending upon how you use the resulting data.

If you just need the information you can select a group of cells in you Excel sheet, copy them with Ctrl-C and then paste the copied cell as an image into your PDF. I uses this when reviewing material quotes where I use Excel as an "adding machine" and the pasted image as the "tape". Depending upon how fancy you want to get you could have your Excel sheet setup where the data maps into the right places in your PDF.

Another option you could try would be to print your Excel to a PDF, then run the OCR routine. This should give you selectable text that you could copy and paste into your form fields. It's still a bit of a manual process, but it turns a bunch of typing into mouse copy/paste work.

Keep us posted on what you come up with.😎