Overlay Tool – Page Selection Error

John Hummer · 2025-07-08T14:36:17+00:00

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Since the last update of Bluebeam every time I use the Overlay tool it tries to compare all the pages of the first document with the current page of the second document. This results in an error message. I can manually change the page selection to current and the overlay will work but this gets tedious when doing overlays on many page pdfs.

Before the update the tool would compare the current page of the first document with the current page of the second document. I looked at my defaults in the overlay tool and it is set to Current Page for Default Page Range so I'm not sure what else I can do to resolve this.

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Luke Shiras

I noticed this change too. I'd like the default to be "all pages" for both documents. Ideally, this would be a setting that we can choose globally based on our individual workflows. Or maybe a procedural change, like highlighting the pages before selecting the overlay tool.

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