Bluebeam PDF Revu

[Frank]

Is there an option that PDF Revu remembers on what page I stopped reading/editing?

I don't know an option.
But you could add a flag to the page and save the document before you close the document.

In the PDF properties you can define a start page. So maybe you can make a suggestion to Bluebeam so they may add a button to a toolbar with which PDF Revu sets the current page as the new start page of the PDF file.

Has anyone tried PDF Revu on the Windows 7 RC? I've downloaded the trial, but it fails to install, complaining about 'registering an assembly' right near the end of the install process.

I had no issues with installing PDF Revu on Windows 7 RC.
I had a similar issue on XP, but it still installed everything fine. The only thing which I missed was the PDF Revu printer driver, which I was able to reinstall later in the Bluebeam Adminsitrator program.
So maybe everything runs fine and you just have to reinstall the printer driver?

[SrTapir]

Is there an option that PDF Revu remembers on what page I stopped reading/editing?

I have not founded too...

[Allaman]

That's a pity... Foxit for example remembers where you stoped reading even if you had opend several documents... but of course editing is not powerfull

I think I'am too lazy to make a flag everytime on any single script every time I read on...

[Carter]

Hi,

I have created pdf's with acrobat that load significantly slower when I use PDF Revu for turning pages!

How can I speed up revu, since it is my only editing software for pdfs (v. 6.5.4)

thanks!

[Frank]

@carter: I think you talk about a scanned book. So one way to improve speed is to reduce the image resolution of the pages.

[Frank]

Today I received an answer to my mail I sent Bluebeam regarding the eraser:

Frank,

Joel was discussing this issue earlier to day with Chris Benson. I have attached Joel's email response to Chris.


Hi Chris,

Beth sent me your email and I sat down with one of our developers to find out what was happening here.

I had initially thought that you were referring to a different issue in which the eraser was leaving uneraseable artifacts behind, which has been fixed.

However, what's happening here is that the fourth eraser tool was not designed as a stroke eraser. It was designed to erase line segments between sharp angles on a pen stroke. So, if you create a continuous pen stroke, this eraser tool will erase the parts of the line that are between the sharp angles..

The reason that the artifacts are left behind is that the tool is detecting a line, a sharp angle and then another line. It's erasing the two lines, but not the elbow between them.

I have alerted our developers as to what it is that you're looking for, which is a true stroke eraser, or something that will erase the entire continuous pen stroke.

They appreciate what you'd like to see, and wanted me to ask you if you thought that it would be better to add a fifth eraser, or merge it with the fourth eraser.



Please let me know if I can answer any questions.

Thank you,
Greg

Interesting. Now it seems that they understand our problem.

So what do you guys think is better. A fifth eraser or this option integrated in the fourth eraser?

Personally I think a fifth eraser would be better because I like the current 'semi stroke eraser' and I think it can be quite handy sometimes.
Your opinions?

[leaftye]

Either way yes, YES, DO IT.

Now that that's out of the way, yeah, a fifth eraser would probably be better. I'm not really sure what erasers 2-4 are, but if they added a 5th, I would probably always use that.

It sounds like adding the 5th eraser would be easy. It'd basically be a continuance of the artifact eraser, except it'd consider any touching stroke as an artifact and keep on going until no artifacts at the end of strokes are present. I can't remember if there's a snap feature, but I suppose that'd be a problem for drawings that use it, but I think that's a good compromise if it means we get a real stroke eraser.

[Carter]

@frank: thanks, I will try that!

[Carter]

hi there,

I tried this INK support for adobe, and I don't like it! It has way too few features for that price! I would 5$ for these 4 pens with predefined colors!

My problem with pdf revu is, that I often has big problems with showing the pdfs I get from other people the way they should be! Acrobat shows them right, but revu with errors in graphics!

What can I do?

E.G. one of the pdfs was created with a Mac!

Thanks!

[Frank]

My problem with pdf revu is, that I often has big problems with showing the pdfs I get from other people the way they should be! Acrobat shows them right, but revu with errors in graphics!

What can I do?

E.G. one of the pdfs was created with a Mac!

Write Bluebeam a mail.
In PDF Revu select 'Help' - 'Contact Technical Support'. Describe your problem and name the page on which the error occurs, attach the document to the mail and send it to Bluebeam. They are happy to receive this feedback and often this issue is solved in their next minor release then. At least this was my experience in the past.