Maintain revisions

By default Bluebeam Revu does not maintain revisions on save. This feature, if enabled, will retain every saved version of a PDF, allowing reversion to earlier saved revisions.

Maintaining revisions will result in significantly larger file sizes due to the additional information stored to retain the revision history.

To enable maintaining revisions:

  1. Go to Revu > Preferences.

  2. Go to General > Document.

  3. From the Save Mode dropdown menu, select Maintain Revisions.

When this setting is enabled, saving a PDF will cause a new revision to be saved automatically.

To revert to a previous version:

  1. Go to File > Revert As and select the version you wish to revert to. The Save As dialog appears.
  2. Navigate to and select a location to save the new reverted file. If desired, enter a new name for the file. The default name for reverted files is <PDF name>_Rev#.
  3. Select Save.

Removing all previous revision histories has two benefits: others cannot access previous revisions of the PDF, and eliminating old versions reduces the file size.

To remove all revisions from a PDF, go to File > Publish and select one of the available options:

  • Publish As Flattened: Removes all revisions and flattens the markups on the PDF.
  • Publish As Compressed 1.x: Removes all revisions and provides further file size reduction.
  • Publish As Uncompressed: Removes all revisions.

Related topics

Document Preferences