Snapshots able to be edited after flattening in other PDF software.

Cortego · 2025-07-01T15:20:53+00:00

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Hello, recently I have encountered an issue regarding certain snapshots and their interactions in other PDF viewers after flattening.

When documents flattened in Bluebeam Revu are opened in Adobe Acrobat, snapshots that were previously flattened are able to be selected and edited. Is there a way to have snapshots flatten like other markups where they cannot be selected and this blue box will not show up around them?

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Rupesh

When flattening the document, uncheck allow Markup recovery (Unflatten), this will prevent document from editing your markup, or you can also try to lock the markup from editing.

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Rupesh

When flattening the document, uncheck allow Markup recovery (Unflatten), this will prevent document from editing your markup, or you can also try to lock the markup from editing.

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