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Bluebeam vs. Adobe

Bluebeam helps you work smarter, not harder.
Bluebeam takes the effort and guesswork out of working with
PDFs, combining powerful PDF editing, markup and
collaboration technology with reliable file creation directly from
Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Revit and more. See how our file
conversion and collaboration solutions stack up against
comparable products from Adobe.
BLUEBEAM VU
VS. ADOBE READER XI
BLUEBEAM REVU STANDARD
VS. ACROBAT STANDARD
REVU CAD PLUGINS VS. ACROBAT PLUGINS
BLUEBEAM REVU EXTREME
VS. ACROBAT PROFESSIONAL

Bluebeam® Vu® vs. Adobe Reader® XI

Feature Bluebeam Adobe

View 3D models  
Track markups and comments placed on PDFs  
Fill in and save PDF forms  
Sort and filter markups and comments by author, date, page  
and type

Join online collaboration sessions and access project files in  

the cloud
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Search for symbols in PDFs  
Split screen/views  
Pin files and folders and preview PDFs from the interface  
Microsoft SharePoint integration  
Bentley ProjectWise integration  

Bluebeam® Revu® Standard vs Adobe®

Acrobat® Standard
Feature Bluebeam Adobe

One-button PDF conversion from Microsoft Office (Word,  

Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

PDF to Microsoft Office conversion  

Output scanned PDFs as editable Word, Excel or PowerPoint  
documents

Markup 3D PDF views  

Track markups and comments placed on PDFs  
Create a PDF summary of all markups and comments  
PDF text editing  
PDF text stamping  
Apply Bates stamps to PDFs  
PDF file embedding  
Insert, extract, replace, delete, rotate or reorder pages in a  
PDF file

Combine PDF files  

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Attach files to PDFs  
Automatic PDF bookmarking  
Add digital signatures and time stamps to PDFs  
Password protection and security  
Cloud-based light document management system  
Customizable toolbars  
Search for symbols in a PDF  
Create and save custom interface profiles and markups  
Add arcs and curved lines to PDFs  
Create polygons, polylines, rectangles and ellipses based on  
a PDF’s calibrated scale

Take measurements using different scales in the same PDF  

Calibrate tool sets to automatically resize on documents with  
different scales and viewports

Manage markups in layers  

Compare drawings of different sizes and scales with overlay  
pages

Auto-match batch comparison files by file name, page label  

or page region

Customize columns in Markups list  

Set separate XY scales  
Embed photos and video into markups that display in a pop-  
up viewer

Edit individual markups in a group without ungrouping  

Automatically add bookmarks and page labels using PDF  
content
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Move and rotate captions in measurement annotations  

Revu® CAD Plugins vs. Adobe®

Acrobat® Plugins
Feature Bluebeam Adobe

One-button conversion from AutoCAD  

Batch DWF conversion within AutoCAD  
PDF text stamping for AutoCAD  
PDF file embedding from AutoCAD  
Automatic PDF bookmarking from AutoCAD PDFs  
PDF security from AutoCAD  
One-button conversion from SolidWorks  
Batch PDF conversion from SolidWorks  
PDF security from SolidWorks  
PDF text stamping from SolidWorks  
PDF file embedding from SolidWorks  
Automatic PDF bookmarking from SolidWorks PDFs  
One-button conversion from Revit  
PDF security from Revit  
PDF text stamping for Revit  
PDF file embedding from Revit  
Automatic PDF bookmarking from Revit PDFs  
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Batch PDF conversion from AutoCAD  

One-button 3D PDF creation from Revit, Navisworks Manage,  
Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp Pro 2013

Integrates with 64-bit version of AutoCAD, SolidWorks and  

Revit

Presets for MicroStation, Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics and other  

CAD applications

Automatic PDF resizing without CAD page setup adjustments  

Bluebeam® Revu® eXtreme® vs. Adobe®

Acrobat® Pro
Feature Bluebeam Adobe

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned documents  

Permanently redact sensitive information  
Create forms with a form editor  
Streamline your stamping and other processes with Scripting  
Commands

Batch create hyperlinks to link together large document sets  

Add complex, hierarchical bookmarks using dynamic  
components

Automatically slip-sheet complex file sets  

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