Feature Overview

Table of Contents

Profiles 2

Getting Started 3

MultiView™ and Split Documents 4

Markup Tools 5

Tool Chest™ 6

Markups List 7

Bluebeam Studio™ 8

Compare Documents 9

Sets 10

Measurement Tools 11

File Access™ 12

SharePoint and ProjectWise Integration 13

Batch Processing 14

Permissions, Security, Flattening and Stamps 15

Microsoft Office and Outlook Plug-ins

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Bookmarks, Flags and WebTab™ 17

VisualSearch™ 18

3D PDF 19

Links 20

Spaces 21

Bluebeam Revu eXtreme ® 22

Tips and Tricks 24

Profiles
Make it your own. Everyone works differently, so Revu includes nine
preloaded Profiles that alter Revu's user interface for different work processes:
Construction, Advanced, Takeoff, Punch, Design Review, Oil & Gas, Office,
Simple or Tablet. Don’t see what you need? Not a problem. You can create
your own Profile and save it for future use.

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Getting Started
The Revu interface is intuitive, easy on the eyes and fully customizable.
Click on the menu bar at the top of the interface to display groups of menu
buttons on the Command bar, where you can pin commonly used tools to
create custom toolbars.

At the left, right and bottom are panels that can be opened and closed to
expose more tabs, such as File Access™, Bookmarks, Thumbnails, Tool
Chest™, Links, Properties, Search, Bluebeam Studio™, Markups list,
Measurements, Digital Signatures and more. Select any tab from the Tab
Access menu and it will automatically open the respective panel in the
interface. How easy is that?

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MultiView and Split Documents
An innovative way to see your work — 16 times over. Why limit yourself
to one tabbed view, or two, or even 15? Split your screen up to 16 times and
sync them all to pan and zoom in unison using Revu’s exclusive MultiView™
technology. View and compare the same document in different areas or
different documents in the same area. Or, divide a PDF into multiple sections
by top level bookmarks, file size or page count with Split Documents.

Working with more than one monitor? Drag a document or feature tab to
another monitor to maximize viewing space or to keep your tools out of the
picture — it’s your choice. Perhaps you would like to load multiple sessions
of Revu? With MultiView Extended, you can enhance your viewing
experience with just a few clicks.

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Markup Tools
Adding markups has never been easier. Point, click and release – that’s all
it takes. Select from markup tools such as text, notes, lines, clouds, stamps,
images and more. Change the color, fill, opacity, line type or font to suit
your mood, and easily establish uniformity with the Format Painter. Use
Capture to embed photos and video from the field or your media library
into any markup, and provide team members with the details they need to
get the job done.

Do you work with project partners around the world? We’ve made
collaborating even easier for everyone involved by including support
that lets you type in foreign languages, as well as translate markups
from other languages.

Need to add CAD symbols to a drawing in the field? Quickly add polygons,
polylines, rectangles and ellipses based on a PDF’s calibrated scale with
Revu's built-in Sketch Tools. Real-time length and angle feedback is provided
as you sketch, or you can simply input precise dimensions with your
keyboard. It's that easy.

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Tool Chest
Stop creating the same annotation over and over again. Revu’s patented
Tool Chest™ keeps track of your markups as you create them, and lets
you save them for easy reuse. After you add and customize a markup,
drag it from Recent Tools and drop it into any tool set for future sessions.
Separate your markups into different tool sets to help categorize and
share them with others.

No matter how big or small a drawing is, the amazing Dynamic Tool Set
Scaler allows you to calibrate a tool set to automatically resize its markups
when used on PDFs with different scales and viewports, so you won't ever
have to do it manually again — that includes grouped markups, too. Yep, it’s
that simple.

And that’s just the beginning. Double-click on one of your saved markups to
toggle from “Drawing Mode” to “Properties Mode” and create brand-new
markups using that same style. Assign an Action to a markup like jump to
page, snapshot view, hyperlink or open file, or add a number to a markup
for automatic sequencing. The options are limitless.

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Markups List
For once, being tracked is a good thing. Want to know who said what,
when? Pull up the Markups list to see an annotation’s author, date, time,
status and more — you can sort and filter by this data, too. Import and
export markups with ease as you append another reviewer’s comments to
yours for a composite overview. Drag and drop Markups list columns to
reorder them, or add your own by using Custom Columns.

Need to provide an overview of your markups? Legends allow anyone to have

an immediate visual understanding of the markups on your PDF. The best
part? Legends automatically update as markups are added or modified.

When all is said and done, export comprehensive markup reports from one or
multiple PDFs that display the information in your Markups list, including
images and videos embedded in annotations. Export as a CSV, XML or PDF
Summary that can be appended and hyperlinked to the original PDF, or print
to a local printer. Specify the information to include using powerful sort and
filter tools, create a personalized Summary Template, and then save your
settings to produce customized markup reports at any time. What can't the
Markups list do?

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Bluebeam Studio
Make Revu your Studio. Bluebeam Studio is the ultimate document-based
digital collaboration solution, allowing you to manage projects digitally
from start to finish anywhere, at any time, from any Windows desktop and
tablet or iPad.

There are two sides to Studio: Projects and Sessions. Store, manage and
invite project partners to check out and edit an unlimited number of PDFs
and any other file type in the cloud (for free!) or on your local server using
Studio Projects. Collaborate on the fly by uploading 2D and 3D PDFs into
online Studio Sessions, where you and your selected attendees can
comment on the same PDFs together in real time or separately on your
own. Project PDFs can be uploaded into a Session, allowing you to check in
your changes as you make real-time, uninterrupted updates to Project files.

Even if your colleagues don't have Revu, they can simply download
Bluebeam's free PDF viewer, Bluebeam Vu for Windows and iPad, to join
Studio and participate in the live collaboration Sessions. You also have the
flexibility to send password-protected links to a Project file to anyone,
whether or not they have a Studio account. There are no limits to what you
can do when leveraging the combined power of Revu and Studio.
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Compare Documents
Comparing drawings will never be the same again. Now your eyes can
focus on more important things as Revu does the work for you. Compare
Documents can align your drawings, and then highlight and cloud the
differences for you. Plus, because the clouds are markups, you can use the
Markups list to step through each difference one by one.

If clouds aren’t enough, you can compare drawings using colorized

layers instead. Apply different colors to two or more different PDFs using
Overlay Pages. Then, select three points to accurately align your documents.
The content from each page will display as a different color to highlight the
differences. In areas where there is no change, the colors will blend
together to form a new, darker color.

Want to compare several revisions at once? Whether you prefer to Batch

Compare Documents or Batch Overlay Pages, Revu will auto-match files by
file name, page label or page region. Let us do the hard work for you.

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Sets
Life is complicated, so keep your files simple. Sets allows you to view,
access and navigate an unlimited number of various source files as if they
are a single document in a single tab, without modifying the actual
associated files in any way. Easily browse all files selected for your Set in a
thumbnail view or as a list. Customize rules for sorting files by page label or
numeric sequence, and automatically assign files into categories with
preconfigured or custom templates to organize your Set the way you want
to see it.

Use Tags to help you better organize and sort files within a Set according to
sheet number, name, type and more. With Tags added to your sheets, you
can even generate a complete drawing log from your Set.

Sets is so smart it can even detect revisions, and carry over all markups,
hyperlinks, Spaces and other data when slip-sheeting, as well as redirect
hyperlinks to ensure you’re accessing the latest revisions. Save Sets and
share them with project partners in a convenient read-only format, upload
Sets into a Studio Project, or create Studio Sets on the fly by adding files
from a Studio Project to a Set.

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Measurement Tools
Never use a ruler again. Revu has all the tools you need to count and
measure length, area, volume, perimeter, angle and radius right from your
PDFs. One measurement is all you need for Revu to automatically calculate
all other related measurements, including Wall Area, and display them in the
Markups list. You can even cut out parts within an area measurement for a
more accurate measurement. To begin, simply click Calibrate and pick two
known measurements to set the scale. Use Viewports to set separate X and Y
scales for other parts of the drawing, and view and manage them easily in
the Measurements tab to eliminate confusion. Move and rotate measurement
captions to place them exactly where you want, and out of the way of
important details on the PDF.

But wait, there’s more. All of your measurements are tracked in the Markups
list, where you can easily create formulas to calculate the cost of materials
associated with your measurements and export the sort totals to CSV or
XML. With Revu’s SmartGroup™ technology, you can automatically calculate
subtotals in the Markups list by simply grouping measurements. Not only
that, but you can also quickly view and make changes to individual
annotations within a group. Who has time to open up another program?

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File Access
Never again waste time searching for your files. Revu's File Access tab
displays a list of recently opened PDF files that can be previewed or
reopened with a mouse click. Search local or network drives with ease,
and pin or save files in categories to keep project documents organized
and conveniently stored.

What’s pinning, you ask? It’s saving your favorite PDFs in Revu for one-click
access. Pinned files also give you direct access to the file’s folder, so you
can also open all related PDFs. If you want to get fancy, add hyperlinks to
your existing PDF that link to any file in the Recents list or on your network
through the integrated Explorer.

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SharePoint and ProjectWise Integration
Hello SharePoint and ProjectWise. It’s a pleasure working with you. Revu
integrates with Microsoft SharePoint and Bentley ProjectWise document
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management systems so you can seamlessly retrieve and check in documents

directly from the Revu interface. Easily configure Revu to stop displaying
prompts or dialog boxes — it's so seamless, we couldn't make it easier if
we tried.

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Batch Processing
Customize all your PDFs in one easy step. Revu’s batch processing
capabilities allow you to convert an unlimited number of files to PDF or print
several PDF documents in one print job. But the fun doesn’t stop there. You
can even batch add Hyperlinks, Headers & Footers, Crop & Page Setup,
Repair Page Content and Flatten Markups. Automatically match new
revisions with their corresponding current sheets, and carry over all markups,
hyperlinks, Spaces and bookmarks — all while stamping superseded sheets
— using Batch Slip Sheet (eXtreme only).

The best part of batch processing is that you can start the same way:
Select a group of files you wish to process together, then — depending on
the action — follow the respective menus to complete the action and
execute. How will you spend all your extra free time?

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Permissions, Security, Flattening and Stamps
Make sure your privileged and confidential information stays that way.
There are a few ways to take complete ownership of your PDFs in Revu.
You can apply a password to open the PDF file or set permissions to
determine what your recipients can and cannot do, such as printing,
copying, adding markups or editing a file. Or, set up security profiles and
use the custom settings feature to secure your PDF in one click. If you’re
batch processing, use the batch-lock security feature.

Another way to ensure your markups stay in place is to flatten them. Some
of you may be flattening markups and some of you might be creating
layered PDF files, but did you know you can flatten markups into layers?
Assign live markups to layers that you can toggle on or off, or even delete.

Finally, give your documents the stamp of approval. Create dynamic

custom stamps that include fields for your company logo, date and time of
placement, status and signature. Save stamps in the Tool Chest for easy reuse
or stamp an entire folder of PDFs at once. Simple enough? We think so.

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Microsoft Office and Outlook Plug-Ins
The perfect pair: Revu and Microsoft Office. Sure, Revu has a superior
plug-in for Microsoft Office, but did you know you can convert your PDF
files — including scanned documents — back to their native applications
as well? That’s right. Revu is incredibly powerful, but we understand that
sometimes you just need to work with a file in Word, Excel or PowerPoint to
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access certain text-editing or formatting options offered by those programs.

There‘s also an easier way to archive your emails and access them later with
Revu’s Microsoft Outlook plug-in. Revu recognizes all email hyperlinks and
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attachments so nothing gets missed. Working on billable hours? Track the

time stamps on all emails relating to a project to verify the time spent on
a project. Or, track the email communication on projects for accountability.
We’re here to help.

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Bookmarks, Flags and WebTab
Find everything you need, when you need it. With Revu, bookmarks take
on a life of their own. You can create bookmarks from page labels and page
labels from bookmarks, which take you to a snapshot view, website or file
you wish to share.

Whether your documents are vector or scanned, Revu's AutoMark™ feature

can automatically create bookmarks and page labels by combining page
regions, such as sheet labels and sheet numbers. Designate multiple regions
and customize the bookmarks with spaces, prefixes, suffixes and symbols.

Need an overview of all your bookmarks? Generate customized PDF and

CSV summaries of all bookmarks from a single file or across multiple PDFs.

Like bookmarks, PDF Flags can also jump to a specific page, website
or file. They also provide visual cues as to where you should be looking.

We've introduced yet another genius innovation for your convenience —

WebTab™. No longer do you have to open a separate web browser to
research plans, specs, supplies or brochures. Anything and everything you
need on the Internet is available directly within Revu. Plus, we include a direct
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VisualSearch
Find exactly what you need, when you need it. Quickly locating keywords
or phrases is an essential feature, but why stop there? After all, not
everyone communicates with just words; symbols or other graphical
elements need attention, too. For this reason we created VisualSearch™,
Revu’s exclusive way to quickly identify all instances of a symbol on PDF
drawings. You can even tell Revu to search the current document, all open
documents or an entire folder of PDFs. VisualSearch is so powerful, it will
find all symbols or elements, regardless of rotation, color or line
interferences. Search results appear in a list, which lets you easily add
hyperlinks and highlights, count, or even edit or replace text. Wow.

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3D PDF
The world isn’t flat. And sometimes your PDFs aren’t, either. Create 3D
PDFs directly from Revit , Navisworks Manage, Navisworks Simulate and
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SketchUp Pro, or from any IFC file. Choose between a full-page 3D PDF of
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the model, or copy the model to your clipboard and paste a 3D window
into an existing PDF.

Revu’s 3D PDF viewing capabilities make it incredibly simple to navigate

through complex models, zoom in to see exact details, and isolate regions
for improved issue communication. You can even move objects within a 3D
PDF using the Transform tool.

But wait, there’s another dimension to Revu’s 3D capabilities. Cutting-edge

PDF annotation technology allows you to add markups to 3D views. When
navigating the model, markups are indicated by blue spheres and are
tracked in the Markups list, which can be filtered and sorted with ease —
no glasses required.

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Links
Go to where you want to go faster. Links makes it easier than ever to add
and manage hyperlinks in a PDF. Configure hyperlinks to display websites and
networked files, or jump to specific pages or snapshot views in your PDF. Link
up entire document sets quickly and easily using Batch Link (eXtreme only) to
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automatically generate an unlimited number of hyperlinks by file name,

page label or page region. You can even add highlighted hyperlinks to
your documents without appearing in the Markups List. Create and name
link destinations, otherwise known as Places, and then hyperlink to those
Places in the current PDF or another PDF. All document hyperlinks are
displayed in a list for easy editing and organization. Need to change Places?
Simply update your Place and all hyperlinks will automatically update.

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Spaces
Take the punch process to a whole new level. Define Spaces in mere
seconds. Just select an area on a PDF, name it and shade it! Now all
markups added to that Space will be tracked in the Markups list, which
can be filtered to show detailed information.

Automatically convert Revit Rooms to Spaces, creating a more intelligent

2D PDF that tracks the location of all your markups and makes area
measurements easier to calculate.

Sort and report on markups based on their user-defined zones. Copy and
paste Spaces across other pages and files, create area measurements from
Spaces and add hyperlinks to and from Spaces in a document. There’s no
limit to the number of Spaces within Spaces that you can create. Need to
edit a Space? Revu allows you to edit single or multiple Spaces at once.

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Bluebeam Revu eXtreme
Ready to push the limits of your PDFs? Enter Revu eXtreme—the ultimate
edition of Revu designed with exclusive features for power users who want
to do more with their PDFs.

With OCR+ (Optical Character Recognition), transform scanned PDFs into

text-searchable files, even those containing skewed and vertical text.

Maintain a high-tech reputation by creating slick PDF forms that look cool
and perform advanced functions, such as calculations, validations and
JavaScript commands. Need to permanently remove confidential data from
PDFs? Use the special redaction features only available in eXtreme.

Add complex, hierarchical bookmarks to a file faster with Structures™, which

automatically pulls in dynamic components from a selection of bookmark
templates included in Revu. You can even create templates and share them
with others using the Import and Export features in the Structures Manager.

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Write and save scripts that automate multi-step processes so they are just
a click away on your toolbar. eXtreme includes more than 25 script
commands to take your digital workflow to the next level.

Use Batch Link® to create an unlimited number of hyperlinks by file name,

page label or page region to quickly link up entire document sets.

Automatically match new revisions with their corresponding current sheets,

and carry over all markups, hyperlinks, Spaces and bookmarks – all while
stamping superseded sheets – using Batch Slip Sheet.

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Tips and Tricks

Cloud+ combines the convenience of clouds and the clarity of

callouts into a single markup tool, including the ability to customize
the appearance properties for both components independently.

Combine, reorder, insert, delete, copy, extract, number and rotate

pages from the Thumbnails panel. Reorder pages within the panel by
using a simple drag and drop. Copy pages and paste them to a new
location, or access other page assembly options by right-clicking on
the thumbnail view.

Use Headers & Footers to add text or a date to all the pages in a
document, or auto-sequence page numbers and Bates numbers.

Color processing options enable you to change or strip colors in your

PDF. Revu includes a number of color processing options such as
modify colors, grayscale, and black and white, as well as the ability to
adjust the luminosity, saturation and hue of colors.

Revu gives you two options for removing PDF content: Erase Content
to erase content for good or Cut Content to remove the underlying
content and paste it elsewhere. You can drag your mouse to create a
perfect rectangle, or pick points to create a more applicable shape.

Attach or embed files in your PDF to create a complete package of

documents. Either insert a file into a PDF itself so that it has a visible
icon on the document, or embed the file in the document without a
visible icon through the File Properties option.

Zoom versus scroll: In One Full Page mode, the mouse wheel defaults
to zoom in/out. But if you select Scrolling Pages mode, the center
mouse wheel defaults to page scroll. You can set either of these as
your default preference.

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 Use PDF Packages to organize project files and folders in a single
PDF container and easily share them electronically. Despite the name,
any type of file can be included in a PDF Package.

Click on the Snapshot tool to copy an area of a PDF. The content is

saved to your clipboard, maintaining the vector data and image
quality of the original. Paste the snapshot in another area of the PDF
or another PDF.

Select multiple markups by using the Lasso tool or right-click, hold

and drag the cursor across multiple markups.

Standardize the appearance of markups with a simple click. Just

choose a markup, select the Format Painter and apply its properties
to any markup or group of markups.

Grid shows the grid on the workspace. Snap will snap markup end
points to the grid. Content will snap to the underlying content
(vector). Markup snaps to other markups in the PDF. Reuse will
eliminate the need to select the same tool over and over again.
Sync will synchronize all split views so that you can pan and zoom
multiple views of the same file at the same time.

Add curves to polylines and polygons by right-clicking on a line or

control point and selecting Convert to Arc. Add and subtract control
points, too.

Right-click on a callout and select Add Leader to create one callout

annotation with multiple leader lines.

Alt Key mode lets you view each individual element in a grouped
markup. All you have to do is press Alt.

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Rotate markups and captions by grabbing the orange control point

at the top of a markup. Hold the Shift key to rotate to an exact point.
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The Dimmer is very useful when reviewing markups on a color PDF.
Look for the light bulb in the lower right-hand corner of the interface.

Tablet users can pan and zoom with their pen by double-tapping on
the screen to pull up the zoom control. Drag your pen up (+) or down
(-) to zoom in/out. Move the pen outside of the zoom control and pan
as normal. Revu includes pressure sensitivity and ink copy/paste
interoperability with Windows Journal™ and Microsoft OneNote™.

Import tool sets from bluebeam.com/extensions. Bluebeam is

frequently creating and updating tool sets. If you don’t see what
you’re looking for, please send us an email:
[email protected]

Select one of Revu’s templates (Fax, Invoice, RFI, etc.) or a special

page style (notebook, grid and more). You can even import your own
custom PDF templates.

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