Importing and Exporting Profiles

Profiles provide an easy way to store the toolbar, menus, and other display settings within Revu. Users might find it useful to share Profiles with their colleagues. This can be accomplished by importing and exporting Profiles.

When a Profile is exported from one computer and imported into another, they are not linked in any way, so updates made to one will not affect the other. The imported Profile is merely a copy of the exported Profile; each may be changed independently. To share a Profile among multiple users, so each will be affected by changes to the Profile, see Managing Profiles.

ClosedExporting 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). Exporting a Profile is a simple process.

  1. Go to View > Profiles or click Profiles on the Navigation Bar to open the Manage Profiles dialog box.

  2. Select the Profile you wish to export.
  3. If you wish to include tool sets, bookmark Structures™ (eXtreme only), hatch patterns and line styles in the exported Profile, select Include Dependencies.
  4. Click Export. The Save As dialog box appears.
  5. Navigate to the desired save location and click Save.
    • If you wish to change the name of the saved file you can, but it is recommended that you do not change the .bpx extension.
ClosedImporting 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. They can also be sent to you directly. For example, a colleague might send you a Profile they have exported as an email attachment; just save the attachment to your local drive and import it.

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 are 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:

  1. Go to View > Profiles or click Profiles on the Navigation Bar to open the Manage Profiles dialog box.

  2. Click Import. The Open dialog box appears.
  3. Navigate to the location of the .bpx file, then select it and click Open. The new Profile is added to your Profiles list.

Related topics

Working With Profiles