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  • David Cutler

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    April 23, 2025 at 7:05 am in reply to: Self-destructing Stamp
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    Welcome to the Brainery @notoriouspbgcomcast-net !

    Interesting use of a stamp. Curious as to how you use the information that it generates in your workflow.

    I’m not a Javascript user, but my suggestion would be to work a simple “Ctrl-Z” into your process. Basically apply the stamp, make use of the data as needed and then hit “Ctrl-Z” to undo the application of the stamp. Is is possible to work a “delayed” undo into the script?

    Perhaps @lizlarsen or @isaac-harned have some ideas on this.

    Dave

  • David Cutler

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    April 23, 2025 at 6:56 am in reply to: Text Search
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    Nice trick @troy-degroot ! And to think that it was right there on the right click menu all the time… Another great example of “you don’t know what you don’t know”!

    Thank you for sharing this.

    Dave

  • David Cutler

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    March 4, 2025 at 12:02 pm in reply to: Javascript Format Painter
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    To help us get the full picture @pkkuehnel what text are you using the format painter to format? Is it another text box, callout, cloud plus markup?

  • David Cutler

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    February 11, 2025 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Search for Text with Regex?
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    Can you provide an example of what you are looking to “find” @aschectman ?

    I’m probably oversimplifying, but if you are looking to find a certain set of characters or values – say “1234” for example you could use a simple text search and then apply a count tool to all the results.

  • David Cutler

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    February 11, 2025 at 7:44 am in reply to: Compare contract documents
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    Great question @Chad Czerwinski !

    What I’ve done in the past is to work paragraph by paragraph to see what has changed.

    1. With both PDF documents open side by side use the Revu “Snapshot” tool to capture the text from the new document.

    2. Paste the snapshot onto the original document

    3. Use “change color” to make the snapshot of new text green

    4. Position the snapshot over the paragraph and see what has changed

    You can vary your snapshots based on how consistent the pages are, but this gives you options if paragraphs have been moved across page breaks.

    This doesn’t work quite as well as the drawing compare, but it will get the job done. 🙂

  • David Cutler

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    April 24, 2025 at 6:46 am in reply to: Self-destructing Stamp
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    Something you might consider @notoriouspbgcomcast-net is creating a “job sheet” or “cover sheet” that could be applied as part of your workflow. The printing process could then be set to start with page 2 – or simply recycle that 1st sheet before binding.

  • David Cutler

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    March 24, 2025 at 8:54 am in reply to: Working with data tables
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    Thank you for the reminder about that MCR episode. I remember seeing you do that live…

  • David Cutler

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    March 24, 2025 at 8:52 am in reply to: Pulled some additional tools out of the tool box
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    I was lucky with this set @Vince in that they all aligned well. Very frustrating when the don’t!

    One new trick I picked up this time was using the “Match by Page Region” option – I hadn’t noticed that option before. Very handy when the page labels don’t match.

  • David Cutler

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    March 21, 2025 at 5:29 am in reply to: Working with data tables
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    I may just work this right into my workflow going forward….

  • David Cutler

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    March 4, 2025 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Javascript Format Painter
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    Reading your response to @Doug McLean and mine I’d suggest creating a “Sample Format” file that you could have open off to the side in a separate window. This PDF could have text boxes pre-formatted that you could select, then select the format painter and then apply back to your review document as needed.

    It’s a 3 click solution, but it would get you there faster and more consistently than creating a new markup each time to format paint from and then delete.

  • David Cutler

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    February 14, 2025 at 7:57 am in reply to: Search for Text with Regex?
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    That’s great that you found a solution @aschectman !

    Out of curiosity, what is the work flow that you are needing this functionality for? As an estimator I’d expect that in addition to a count of each piece, W21x44 per your example, I’d also need the length of the piece so I’d be able to calculate the tonnage of steel to purchase.

  • David Cutler

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    February 12, 2025 at 8:18 am in reply to: Search for Text with Regex?
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    Peter Noyes, who responded to your post on the “other” forum, is one of (if not “the”) lead programmers at Bluebeam. If he says it cannot be done there’s a 99.99% chance that it’s true. Not to say folks such as @lizlarsen and @isaac-harned couldn’t figure it out, but you’d be hard pressed to find someone who knows the product better than Peter.

    BTW, as @troy-degroot mentioned, welcome to the Brainery! 🙂

  • David Cutler

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    February 11, 2025 at 3:57 pm in reply to: Search for Text with Regex?
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    Yup, that’s what I asked it to find…

    I think I mis-understood your original question – you are looking for a method of finding all of the various sizes of W sections included in the document and counting them, without searching for a specific section each time.

    Best I can offer would be to use multiple runs of the search feature and applying a count markup as you find them. Again, not what you are looking to do, but would get it done.

    Perhaps @lizlarsen will chime in on this one…

  • David Cutler

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    February 11, 2025 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Search for Text with Regex?
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    I created a simple word doc using your sample text and used it to create a PDF with the example text. The search tool seemed to find both fine – see screen shot below.

    Still a manual process, so I’m not sure that is what you are looking for – but the search in Revu appears to be able to find both of your examples…

  • David Cutler

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    February 6, 2025 at 7:42 am in reply to: Upgraded my mouse game!
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    I also use the “hold down scroll wheel to pan” built in function regularly so I need to be careful not to knock the wheel into undo/redo mode by accident. Guess I might need to do some finger exercises to build up the stability of my scroll wheel finger so I don’t “knock” when I pan.🤣

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