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How are the new 2026 accessibility requirements impacting your PDF workflows?
Hi everyone, In light of the new ADA Title II regulations, many state and local governments — and the vendors who work with them — need their digital documents to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 24, 2026 (or 2027 for smaller jurisdictions). This includes PDFs that end up on public websites or portals. I’m trying to…
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Your Input Needed: Improving Bluebeam on the Web
Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Alan, a Product Manager here at Bluebeam, working together with Meike, one of our Product Designers. We’re exploring ways to make the Bluebeam web experience faster, smoother, and more useful for you. We’d love your input! If you use Bluebeam on the web, or are thinking about it, we want to hear about…
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Cycle layers command
I would like to be able to use the cycle layer functions that are currently locked to the surface dial hardware. It seems that since this functionality already exists, it would be trivial to add commands that allow these functions to be bound to other shortcut keys. It seems odd that this is locked to a particular bit of…
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I can't add layers to devices in the tool chest.
I can't add layers to devices in the tool chest.I right-click on the device and choose to enter a layer, but the next time I right-click, the layer is gone. What am I doing wrong?
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Fix Dimmer logic for Dark Mode
Problem: The Dimmer tool currently lightens all PDF content. While this works on a white background, it fails in Dark Mode. Instead of suppressing the background to make markups stand out, the Dimmer lightens the black background to grey. This creates a "grey fog" that reduces contrast and makes markups harder to see.…
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Option to open pdfs in new instance of Revu by default
Can you please add an option to, by default, open pdfs as new instances of Revu instead of as tabs in a single instance? This would enable a more streamlined workflow that I've become familiar with from using other applications combined with MS Windows' built-in windows management system. Note: I'm aware of the article at…
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Slip Sheet - Allow adding new sheets
Many times, a plan revision or addendum adds additional sheets to the project; however, when slipping the revised plan sheets into the old set, we do not have an option to allow new sheets to be added to the set while slipping the revised sheets into the plans. Currently, we have to complete two separate operations, first…
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Rotating Text Box Form Fields
I frequently use Text Box Form Fields populated through FDF imports. In some cases, angled text is required, but Text Box Form Fields cannot currently be rotated to arbitrary angles. The only workaround is to copy the text from each form field into a standard text box and rotate it, which eliminates the ability to populate…
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Bidirectional Excel/CSV Integration – Import & Update Markup Metadata
Hi Bluebeam Team, I am writing to suggest a feature that would significantly enhance the workflow for users handling large-scale projects: the ability to import markup data from Excel/CSV back into Bluebeam to update existing properties. Currently, in my industry, we use Bluebeam to assign unique IDs and metadata to…
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Edit Tags in Sets
While creating a set and editing tags, it would be nice to not have the esc key close the window and lose all the work that was done. Some kind of warning window to appear. I lost about an hour of work the other day.
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"Do Not Allow Unlocking" Feature
While you can lock markups, anyone else can unlock and edit them. You could flatten the markups, but then they disappear from the Markups List, which makes it difficult to pinpoint every change to the file that was made. It would be great if there was a type of locking permission (similar to the "do not allow unflatten…
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Ability to show data from custom columns in "show caption" in the drawing
I would like the ability to add custom columns in "show caption" For example, being able to show the weight of the wall in the image below, so we can see whether the crane can lift it.
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Locked File Issues? Me Too!
Have you ever opened a file and tried to do some annotations and takeoff and it was locked with no permissions for the viewer? Are you unable to even print it to a .pdf or affect any change to it? Boooooo! Me Too. Looking for a workaround? I Found One! Aaaannnd, You're welcome. — If you have a other workaround, please…
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Setting for a full new instance of Bluebeam upon tab breakout
A setting in preferences that when you breakout a tab the user can set it to automatically just give you a viewer of the tab (as is the default and only option at this time) or a full new instance of Bluebeam (akin to Foxit PDF Editor).
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Search Panel Progress Indicator
The Search tool includes a progress indicator that sort of blends in. OK, since I already know about it. For a new UI/UX, the small (body font) percent complete, especially for "Current Document" searches in large documents can lead to repetitive clicking until that progress indicator is spotted. It would be trick if there…
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Roadmap Question: Templates and Database for Field Documentation
We are currently reviewing our licenses and find that we lack the necessary functionality to scale up or even maintain our current number of licenses. We would like to see functionality for creating and managing templates for control plans, commissioning protocols, checklists, and similar field documentation, with results…