Bluebeam Tip: Mastering PDF Flattening in Bluebeam Revu for Secure Document Finalization

In Bluebeam Revu, the PDF Flattening tool is essential for finalizing documents and ensuring that all markups become part of the PDF content. Flattening combines annotations with the base content, preventing accidental edits and ensuring consistency when sharing PDFs.

Here's how to effectively use the PDF Flattening tools:

• Accessing the Flatten Tool: Go to the Document menu and select Flatten. This will open the Flatten Markups dialog box.
• Flatten Specific Pages: In the dialog, choose whether to flatten the current page, a range, or all pages. This gives you control over which parts of the document are affected.
• Options for Flattening: You can select specific markup types to flatten or exclude certain elements. This is useful if you want to retain some annotations for future editing.
• Allow Markups to be Unflattened: Enable the Allow Markup Recovery option if you might need to unflatten the markups later. This embeds data that allows reversal of the flattening process.
• Unflattening Markups: If you allowed markup recovery, you can unflatten by going to Document > Unflatten. This restores the annotations for editing.

Flattening is particularly important when sharing documents externally. It ensures that your annotations are preserved exactly as intended and secures the content from unintended modifications.

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