[Glenn Clapson]

Hi David,

Unfortunately its not possible to delete the compressed data as not all of the information required to re-create the mark-up is contained within the uncompressed portion.

As I’m also working with hundreds of separate objects in the mark-up it is also not possible to re-key the information either.

I’m not sure why Bluebeam presents the custom column information in an uncompressed and what appears to be an editable format in the BAX file only to ignore those values when re-importing the file back into another mark-up.

Are you aware of anyway that I can :

a) Confirm this behaviour is by design or if its is a bug.

b) What program was used to compress the data as I might be able to firstly un-compress it, modify the data and then re-compress it.

Regards

Glenn

[Glenn Clapson]

Hi Troy, thanks for following up.

Scenario. Create a BB mark-up that has a number of custom columns used to hold project information (see below), export this mark-up to Excel where the data is consolidated and then re-imported into BB.

Steps..

Export the mark-up to Excel via the CSV file option as you mention, perform some calculations on it.

Export the mark-up to a BAX file [CTRL+F2], it creates a Hybrid XML file (screen shot from original post) that contains all the custom columns along with their values.

Run an Excel macro that modifies this XML information in the BAX file and saves the file.

Remove the old mark-up from the PDF and re-import the updated data.

Issue..

When I re-import the mark-up using the Import option [CTRL+F3] it re-creates the mark-up correctly but the values for the custom columns that I have modified are ignored and it uses the original values.

I suspect that the XML formatted information from the custom columns in the BAX file is not used when re-importing the mark-up as there is a duplicate of this information contained with the compressed section (see original screen shot).

Hope this makes the issue clearer.