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Bluebeam serves architecture, engineering, construction, and owner (AECO) professionals across industry segments from individual users to large-scale enterprises.
Businesses and individuals working with PDFs and confidential data: Legal Departments, Travel and Consulting agencies, Clerks, Healthcare, Banking and Public Officers.
One particularly great feature, is the ability to calibrate your own scale and measure quantities to scale. It is a great tool for producing markups and redlines on PDFs to share with the team.
Technical errors sometimes arise. People usually forget that they are offline, needs a reminder to be online maybe.
I like how versatile it is. I would say 90% of the office uses Bluebeam in some way. Some more than others, but it always seems like it can do what you want to accomplish.
The Dimensioning Tool in the latest version is awful and makes BB a pain to use. The program has taken a huge step back.
This is excellent software that gives you enormous bang for your buck. The Extreame version is by far the best and worth every penny.
Inability to maintain current versions without constant repurchasing of licenses. No versions for IOS Mac Books.
Easy way to track progress of project or any PDF plan work. I like how you can see who did what when - great documentation.
Printing from it seams to be a problem for our field manager sometimes.
A smooth experience using this application & lately I love Pdf has been in the top my list to help me with the documentation.
For example if you drag and drop many files to merge them in a unique PDF (I am talking about 20 or more) the order that you have in your folder will not be the one on the software.
Privacy is very important for me and when I checked the I Love PDF FAQ page they talked about making our files secure and safe and It's good to hear that.
It makes sense to compress those types of things in a large presentation, but sometimes it looks very bad and I would have to go another route.
There are many more options in this amazing software for us to fulfill our e business needs in this competitive world. It has real value for money.
It´s hard to find errors in I love PDF, maybe the only disadvantage is that it only works with an internet connection.
It is super easy to use, the menus are visually great and easy to find the function that you want.
There geogle drive and Dropbox sometimes I shit messy you can save files.
Jonathan: My name is Jonathan. I'm a curtain wall designer. I give Bluebeam Revu four out of five. Click below for more reviews. Before we were using Bluebeam Revu, I was using Adobe Acrobat. I primarily use construction drawings in my job, and Adobe Acrobat is very clunky for working with large format construction drawings. And so, when we switched to Bluebeam Revu, it was just so much easier to navigate large sets of drawings and large format drawings. I chose Bluebeam Revu because I had read about it on social media and drafting forums. It seemed like a lot of people were moving to that so I gave the trial version a try and I was just blown away with how easy it was to use and how much quicker I could navigate my drawings. That's when we made the decision to buy it. Bluebeam Revu, it was easy to set up. It was easy to download and to install on my PC. The only issue that we've had with it, and it's the reason I give it four out of five stars instead of five out of five stars is the licensing scheme seems a little bit old fashioned, in that you can only install it on one PC. In this day and age, when you're working from your office or you're working remotely from home, they will make you purchase an extra license to work from home. Unless you go through deauthorizing your license while you're at work and then authorizing it again while you're at home. But other than that, it's very easy to use. It's very easy to install and very easy to set up and customize. The advice I would give to anyone else who's working with construction drawings is to definitely buy it. It's the best in the field. You will not regret it. It's easy to use and it's going to make you more productive.
Joshua: Hi, my name is Joshua and I work with Arrows. I'm rating iLovePDF 5 out of 5. I use iLovePDF because I get tired and frustrated using Microsoft Word, transferring and trying to edit different document and saving it in PDF. So iLovePDF is on the go, and that's much more easier for me to use. I chose iLovePDF because it's kind of mobile. You could use it on the app, you could use it on the laptop, on the desktop, on the mobile, on the go, on the plane. Anywhere it's accessible. And it's easy to use. That's why I chose iLovePDF. Getting to use iLovePDF is simple. Much more easier than I think. You don't need an excuse to learn about iLovePDF. Just go online, upload your file, decide what you want to do. You want to add dates, you want to delay it, you want to call it, you want to... All kind of it. It's easy to do. It's just one click away. I think you guys should try iLovePDF, because I've used it for quite a while now, say two, three years now. And I've continued to love iLovePDF because it's virtually simple to use and make much sense to me, probably. And it's free.
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