Good morning, Community!
Your friendly neighborhood Bluebeam CSM here, back with a feature idea a few of my customers keep bumping into. Let's talk Split View.
Current State
When you're comparing two versions of the same document in Split View, turning on Synchronize Views with Synchronize Document mode is fantastic. Flip to page 2 in one document, and Revu automatically flips the other to page 2 as well. One click, both documents move together. Great for reviewing revisions page-for-page.
Check it out here if you aren't "synchronizing" with what I'm describing:
Split, sync, and unsplit views | Bluebeam Technical Support
The Issue
AEC drawing sets rarely stay that tidy. When a revision inserts a new sheet in the middle of a set (as often happens), Synchronize Document falls out of sync, since it's always pairing page 1 to page 1, page 2 to page 2, and so on, by page index, not by content.
The workaround is switching to Synchronize Page mode, which syncs "the pages currently being viewed, regardless of page index." That fixes the mismatch, but Synchronize Page only syncs scrolling and zooming on whatever page you've each already selected, it doesn't auto-advance either document. So you have to manually select the next page in both documents, every single time, to keep them moving together. On a hundred-plus page set, that's a lot of extra clicking just to keep two documents in step.
Suggested Feature
What if there were a third option that syncs page-turn actions instead of page index? In other words: once I've aligned Drawing Set A to page 10 and Drawing Set B to page 11, one page-forward click would move them to pages 11 and 12 together, preserving that offset, the way Synchronize Document auto-advances both documents, but tracking relative position instead of literal page number. When you hit an inserted sheet, just tap Synchronize Views off, flip the one document past the extra page to realign, then flip Synchronize Views back on and keep cruising through the set.
Naming it is the hard part. "Synchronize Page Turns"? "Relative Sync"? Something catchier? Open to ideas.
Feedback, please!
- Have you run into this? I've heard this exact complaint from several customers, but I'd love to know how widespread it actually is.
- Does the proposed behavior make sense as described, or is there a cleaner way to solve it?
- Got a better name than "Synchronize Page Turns"?
And as always, if this resonates… SMASH THAT UPVOTE.
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