In addition to automating a manual workflow, the purpose of this post is to prevent you from relying on individual BB user profile customization as much as possible.

The following is what I wrote to prepare documents for a Quality Control Bluebeam Session. The explanation below should be helpful. BB has a limited set of scripting options, but…

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Copying the contents of the following folders gets you everything:

“C:Users%USERNAME%AppDataLocalBluebeamRevu21”
“C:Users%USERNAME%AppDataRoamingBluebeam SoftwareRevu21″

Revu > Preferences > Admin > Options tab > Backup

This workflow will create a zip file with _most_ everything you need to recreate your exact setup including custom…

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I believe the term is “ToolStrip” in the XML file. The way to analyze this is to Revu > Preferences > Admin > Backup your entire configuration into a Zip file and find the bpx files to analyze the XML and see what you want to copy from there between different bpx files.

Most of the bpx files aren’t encoded, but if they are (meaning you see…

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This is a custom callout definition decoded:

<pre class=””> <ToolChestItem Version=”1″>
<Name>BOODMBZMTTGDMCAS</Name>
<Type>Bluebeam.PDF.Annotations.AnnotationFreeText</Type>
<Raw><</DA(1 0 0 rg /Helv 10 Tf)/IT/FreeTextCallout/DS(font: Helvetica 10pt; text-align:left; margin:0pt; line-height:11.5pt; color:#FF0000)/RD[50 30 5 5]/CL[5.5… Read more

I am sharing a HTML / JavaScript tool for viewing and editing* (* with caution) Bluebeam XML configuration and markup files as follows:

btx – Tool Chest group

bpx – Profile

blx – Linetypes

bhx – Hatches

bax – Markups

I recommend you set these extensions to open in Notepad or Notepad++ (preferred) by default. My reason for creating this tool was to…

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