Comments on: Bluebeam Podcast: What to Expect in Bluebeam PDF Revu Version 8

By: karenpdf

karenpdf — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:06:24 +0000

Hi Larry,

Bluebeam PDF Revu 8 launched on 2/9/10. It’s available, here: http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/products/revu/8.0/

Take care,
Karen
karen (at) bluebeaminsider.com

By: Larry N. Van Sandt

Larry N. Van Sandt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:43:19 +0000

Would like to be notified when new release is available

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By: Winston Williams

Winston Williams — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:07:47 +0000

Eugene you should have just bought Fusion (software) whatever version of Windows you like and then install Bluebeam on your Mac.

By: karenpdf

karenpdf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:28:10 +0000

Hi Donald,

Very cool idea, thanks for commenting. I can tell you that Revu 8 won’t do all this, but will have some improvements that you will hopefully help you out a bit. I’ve also forwarded your comment to our development team at suggestions@bluebeam.com. It’s a great suggestion and I appreciate you sharing it!

Take care,
Karen
karen (at) bluebeaminsider.com

By: karenpdf

karenpdf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:05:14 +0000

Hi John,

I appreciate the feedback! I will share with engineering.

Take care,
Karen
karen (at) bluebeaminsider.com

By: John W

John W — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:42:42 +0000

I hear what you say Karen but the point is that not everyone in our office has Bluebeam open all day, including me. If I want to quickly check a PDF, I use Acrobat. If I want to start an editing session, I use Bluebeam.

Senior managers here, who have Bluebeam available, prefer Acrobat Reader simply because it is virtually instant to view PDFs.

The relatively slow Bluebeam launch time dissuades people where I work from using Bluebeam simply as a PDF Viewer. If they used it as a PDF Viewer, over time, they would be more inclined to use other features.

Adobe learned this lesson several years ago when they added an optimising procedure to every Acrobat installation. Launch times dropped from 10 or so seconds to 1.

Just offering food for thought.

By: Donald Boyer

Donald Boyer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:22:10 +0000

I occasionally have to send large numbers of files by e-mail (not everyone we deal with has an FTP site) and I have to send several e-mails in order to get them all out. This is a tedious process since I have to work out which files I want to Zip and then send. I want Bluebeam to handle that for me. For example. I would like BlueBeam to analyze the files I want sent and based on the file size allowed by the service provider create the multiple e-mails for me. All I have to is send.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:18:24 +0000

I have to agree with John W, the load times aren’t the fastest, especially the subsequent sessions take too long for a PDF Viewer, that’s why I keep PDF Revu open most of the time and don’t close it at all.
When I open PDF Revu I see almost zero HDD activity while I see the splash screen, still it takes several seconds to open the program.
So maybe you better think about optimizing the start up process or about an option to send it to the tray bar when closing it or something else to improve the start up time of subsequent sessions, which shouldn’t take longer than 1 or 2 seconds.

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