Introduction to Profiles

Profiles provide an easy way to store your favorite toolbars, menus and other display settings so that the tools you find most useful are readily available each time you open Revu. Read on to learn how to choose a preloaded Profile or create your own.

ClosedPreloaded Profiles

Revu comes preloaded with several Profiles that are geared toward specific jobs and functions, including:

Advanced: For users who need a broad range of advanced markup features and precise control over markups and measurements and their properties.

Construction: For construction professionals who work with large drawing sets and smart documents and need robust markup, editing, and collaboration tools.

Design Review: For users who need in interface tailored for design review and collaboration with customizable tool sets that contain essential features for drawing navigation, markup and measurement.

Office: For users who review and proofread documents and need the most frequently used markup and editing tools with a simplified interface.

Oil & Gas: For users working with piping & instrumental designs (P&IDs) and process flow diagrams (PFDs) who need specialized tool sets geared toward those tasks.

Punch: For users completing a punch process.

Simple: For users who need to maximize screen space for viewing PDFs but also want to access the Command bar and document tabs for quick navigation between files.

Tablet: For tablet PC user, this Profile reorients the interface vertically and exposes only key markup and editing tools to maximize screen space while panning, zooming, writing and drawing with a tablet PC stylus.

Takeoff: For estimators and specifiers who need to view plans and specs, conduct quantity takeoffs or add markups to their PDF files.

ClosedChanging Profiles

Click the arrow to the right of the  Profiles button from either View > Profiles or from the Navigation bar (use the keyboard shortcut F4 to show it if it's hidden) to prompt a list of available Profiles. The Profile that is currently active will be checked. To change Profiles, simply select another one from the menu. Once selected, the Revu interface will update based on the settings defined in the new Profile.

ClosedCreating a Custom Profile

You can customize the Revu interface and save your configuration as a Profile. There is no limit to the number of custom Profiles you can create.

To create a custom Profile:

  1. Configure the Revu interface as desired, arranging toolbars, tabs, panels and so on as needed. This configuration will be the custom Profile.

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

  3. Click Add. The Add Profile dialog box opens.
  4. Enter the name of the custom Profile in the Name field and click OK. The Add Profile dialog box closes and the new Profile is added to the Profiles list and selected as the active Profile.
  5. Click OK to close the Manage Profiles dialog box.
ClosedSaving Changes to a Profile

You can make changes to any local Profile in Revu, including the preloaded Profiles.

To save changes to a Profile:

  1. Click the arrow to the right of the  Profiles button from either View > Profiles or from the Navigation bar (use the keyboard shortcut F4 to show it if it's hidden) and select the desired Profile.
  2. Make any desired changes to the Revu interface, then go to Profiles > Save Profile. The selected Profile will be replaced with the current interface configuration.
    • Changes to a Profile are also saved automatically when Revu is closed.
ClosedSample Custom Profile: Dual Monitor

There are several community-sourced Profiles available for download from http://www.bluebeam.com/us/support/extensions-profiles.asp. Download and install the one called "Multiple Monitor" by following the installation instructions found at the top of the page.

Once you have installed the Multiple Monitor Profile:

  1. Make sure your computer is set up to display on two monitors in the Windows Display control panel.
  2. Open Revu and select MultipleMon from the Profiles list. This Profile has already split Revu into two windows: one with a series of tabs split across four screens and the other with the main workspace and a handful of toolbars.
  3. Drag one of the screens over to your second monitor. It doesn't matter which one; move whichever one makes more sense for the way you work.
  4. If that seems like a good setup to you, you do not need to do anything else. However, you might want to tweak this setup to make it more to your liking. Here are a few suggestions:

    • Moving tabs: You can move any of the tabs around by simply dragging and dropping to where you want them.

      You can also use the position wheel that appears when you drag a tab away from its current place to split panels horizontally or vertically. Just select one of the directions on the wheel to split the panel and move the tab accordingly.

      In the example below, dragging the Tool Chest tab and selecting the down arrow on the position wheel splits the panel horizontally and automatically moves it below the Thumbnails tab.

    • Showing and hiding tabs: To hide a tab, just right-click it and select Hide. To show a hidden tab, right-click an empty space next to a currently displayed tab and go to Show, then select the tab you want to show.

    • Resizing windows: To resize a window, simply place your cursor over one of the edges of the interface to reveal a double arrow. Once it appears, click and drag to stretch or shrink the window.

    • Splitting the main workspace: With the tabs moved to another monitor, the main workspace is now quite large. You might want to take advantage of this by splitting the main workspace so that you can view more than one PDF at a time. To do so, just click the desired split screen option from the Navigation bar (if it's hidden, use the keyboard shortcut F4 to show it).

  5. When the Profile is set the way you want it, remember to save your changes: go to Profiles > Save Profile.