Tool Chest Tab

The Tool Chest tab toolbar contains commands to make working with markups more efficient.

Reduce Icon Size: Reduces the size of the tool icons.

 Increase Icon Size: Enlarges the tool icons.

Delete Icon: Removes the selected tool from the Tool Chest.

 Toggle Mode: Toggles the selected icon between Properties mode and Drawing mode.

Manage Tool Sets: Opens the Manage Tool Sets dialog box to add, import, export, reorder, and remove Tools Sets. See Managing Tool Sets for more information.

 Manage Tool Sets menu: Click the arrow to the right of the Manage Tools Sets icon to reveal a menu of the currently active Tool Sets. Select a tool set to show it in the Tool Chest tab. See Managing Tool Sets for more information.

The Tool Chest is organized into different tool sets. Each Profile comes with a certain number of additional tool sets enabled by default.

Each tool set has a title bar with a toggle triangle at the left and a  Properties menu at the right. Click the triangle to collapse or expand the tool set. To quickly hide a tool set completely, go to > Hide. To show a tool set that has been hidden, see Managing Tool Sets: Hiding or Showing Tool Sets.

Tool sets can be shown in either Symbol or Detail modes. Click the Properties menu for the desired tool set and select the desired mode.

There are two tool sets that are available in all Profiles: My Tools and Recent Tools.

My Tools is a permanent tool set for markups that you use frequently. Any markup stored in this panel will remain between sessions of Revu.

Recent Tools is a permanent tool set that records recently used markups. This enables you to easily reuse a recent markup without needing to recreate it. Tools in the Recent Tools tool set are temporary; the tool set is cleared when Revu is closed. Tools can be saved permanently by moving them out of Recent Tools to another Tool Set before closing it.

Users can also add tool sets to different Profiles, create and import new tool sets, and share tool sets across a network. See Managing Tool Sets for more information.

Also worth special consideration is the Sequences & Actions tool set. A Sequence allows a text based markup to increment in value each time that a markup is added to the PDF. The updating sequence value can be a number or text.  An Action allows you to add hyperlinks to tools in the Tool Chest.