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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $149.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 08, 2009
- Total Downloads: 12,015
- Downloads last week: 51
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Despite a few installation hassles, we found this suite of PDF tools easy to use and highly effective. Bluebeam Lite integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel, appearing as a small toolbar that allows you to convert documents to PDF files or image formats such as GIF, BMP, and PNG. It also converts CAD files and provides quick access to Bluebeam Lite's FTP client, though you'll need to go to the Start menu to use the watermarking feature and the file-merging utility. With the included PDF Revu utility, you can view and rearrange PDF documents and mark them up with graphics, highlighting, and text. We encountered an installation error on one Windows 2000 test system, though not on other computers. Give Bluebeam Light a test run. We think most people will find it a credible, less expensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat.Publisher's description
From Bluebeam Software :Bluebeam PDF Revu converts files from any Windows application to secure, accurate, and lightweight PDF files and 10 other formats. Toolbar buttons in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint make PDF creation a snap. Also great for translating CAD files to PDF by printing to the included Bluebeam PDF printer. Don't worry about line weights, scale, rotation, orientation, or image quality. Bluebeam PDF Revu also includes PDF markup and editing, tool chest for memorizing and customizing markups and stamps, a full stamp editor, takeoff and measurement tools, search with integrated markup, tabbed navigation, free text, highlighter, cloud, callouts, and split views. Combine documents into a single PDF or insert, reorder, delete, or extract pages. MultiView technology to open up to 16 different tabbed views simultaneously, snapshot, layers, batch printing, and DynamicDefault to automatically memorize settings like font, color, and opacity. Group annotations, use custom tool sets, or insert hyperlinks.
Version 6.5.4 adds PDF form filling, batch stamping, deskewing pages, header-footers, new Tablet PC interoperability with OneNote and Journal.
What's new in this version:
New to 6.5 are PDF form filling, batch stamping, deskewing pages, header-footers, new Tablet PC interoperability with OneNote and Journal, Search with integrated Markup, autopan, improvements to bookmarks and thumbnails, PDF Summary improvements, new Takeoff and measurement tools, improved speed, and better text editing. Also added in 6 are Typewriter, digital signatures, exclusive WebTab technology, redesigned interface, batch comparison of drawings, and file recovery.
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Version: Bluebeam PDF Revu Standard Edition 6.5.4
Pros: Nice looking...
Cons: Activation...
Summary: I would be willing to give this product a better chance... even with the negative review. (The reply from the developer helps...) But it still doesn't forgive the untrust of the developer when it comes to activation... a big "We don't trust our cust... read more >>
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Version: Bluebeam PDF Revu Standard Edition 6.5.4
"Buggy, expensive support, there are better options."
Pros: It's smaller and cheaper than Acrobat (but more expensive than some other options).
Cons: It has serious bugs, Bluebeam has greedy Intuit-like support policies forcing you buy expensive upgrades and hope your bugs get fixed, it has the same obnoxious product activation as Acrobat, the user interface is awkward.
Summary: Bluebeam makes a big deal of "We Do PDF Better" and being the "Acrobat Alternative". But, unfortunately, their product is at least as buggy as the bloated Acrobat. And worse, even when their own support people acknowledge glaring defects in the prod... read more >>
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