Feature Highlight: Flatten tool

Marco M

This week, we're highlighting the Flatten tool in Revu! Flattening lets you lock in your markups, making them a permanent part of your PDF. It’s a great way to finalize documents and ensure that all annotations are secure before sharing.

• Do you or your team use the Flatten feature in Revu?
• What benefits have you experienced from flattening documents before distribution?

Share your thoughts on making markups stick and how it could help with your projects.

https://youtu.be/K8mdmDW4-j8?feature=shared

https://blog.bluebeam.com/flattening-documents-bluebeam-revu/

https://support.bluebeam.com/en-us/revu/features/locking-vs-flattening-markups.html | https://support.bluebeam.com/online-help/revu20/Content/RevuHelp/Menus/Document/Flatten/Flatten-Markups--MT.htm

Luke Shiras

We use the flatten tool all the time. What I haven't figured out is when to "Allow Markup Recovery".

Jes Stafford

We flatten all markups on reviewed submittals before returning to the contractor. I believe we usually check the Allow Markup Recovery option.

Otherwise, for collaboration and especially sessions, we leave the markups as unflattened. This lets us use the markups list to organize and coordinate work on revisions.

Carina

I would love to know if there is a way to flatten markups from a Studio Session (specifically when using the Newforma + Bluebeam Studio integration). Right now… when using this integration, PDFs will get shared back to GCs with unflattened PDFs 😱