Import and export profiles
Profiles provide an easy way to store the toolbar, menus, and other display settings within Revu. You might find it useful to share Profiles with your colleagues by importing and exporting Profiles.
When a Profile is exported from one computer and imported into another, they are not linked in any way; updates made to one will not affect the other. The imported Profile is merely a copy of the exported Profile, and each may be changed independently. To share a Profile among multiple users so that each are affected by changes to the Profile, see Managing Profiles.
Export a profile
Profiles are typically exported in order to share them other users, though they might also be exported for other reasons (to save a backup, for example).
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Go to Revu>
Profiles > Manage Profiles. - Select the Profile you wish to export.
- If you wish to include tool sets, bookmark Structures™ (Complete only), hatch patterns, and line styles in the exported Profile, select Include Dependencies.
- Select Export.
- Navigate to the desired save location and select Save. You can change the name of the saved file, but it is recommended that you do not change the .bpx extension.
Import a profile
Profiles that are to be imported must have a .bpx extension and must be saved on a local or network drive that you can access.
You cannot import a Profile that has the same name as one of your current Profiles. So, for example, if you are trying to import a copy of somebody else's Simple Profile that they have exported and sent to you and the file is called "Simple.bpx", you will need to do one of two things: delete your Simple Profile or rename their "Simple.bpx" file to something else. If you decide to delete your Simple Profile, it might not be a bad idea to export it to save as a backup first; otherwise, the latter is recommended.
The simplest way to import a Profile is to double-click the .bpx file. It will be automatically imported into Revu.
You can also import Profiles through the Revu interface:
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Go to Revu>
Profiles > Manage Profiles. - Select Import.
- Navigate to and select the .bpx file, and select Open. The new Profile is added to your Profiles list.
