BLUEBEAM – EXPORTING

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BLUEBEAM ? EXPORTING

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Core States Group Training Series

BLUEBEAM ? EXPORTING

When working with PDF's there are a lot of +mes that you need to do something with that PDF in more ways than a PDF will let you. In this lesson we will be going over ge2ng informa+on out of a PDF and conver+ng it into another format that we will be able to use. You can export to the following formats: Images Text RTF (Rich Text format) Word Excel Power Point The processes is almost iden+cal for all of them so the first past of the write up will be where those bu8ons are and what happens when you choose them. The second part will be over some of the interes+ng things that can happen when expor+ng to Excel, Word and Power Point.

LESSON ? EXPORTING IN GENERAL

When you need to put something into AutoCAD or a power point presenta+on you can put it in as a PDF, but PDFs are large and cumbersome and if you could save the PDF as an Image file the other program would work smoother and faster processing the data you put into it. Open the PDF that you want to use, we are going to start with a plan set sheet that we printed from AutoCAD.

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Core States Group Training Series There are two places that you can get to the export tools. You can open the le; panel and right click on a thumbnail of the sheet you want to export. Or in the ribbon at the top select file and on the right-hand side there is an export bu8on you can then choose how you would like to export the sheet that you are on.

The first export we are going to be doing is to an image file. Right click on the thumbnail of the sheet you want to export and scroll down to the bo8om of the pop up window and select export. The fly out menu will then give you all your export op+on. Right now, we are going to select Tiff but as you can see all your export op+ons are there for you.

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Core States Group Training Series When you click export you will be given the normal save dialog box, choose where you want to save the file and what you want to save it.

Also in this dialog box you have another opportunity to change the format you are expor+ng too

A;er you click save it will render the export And when you go to where you asked to save the file the Tiff file or what ever format you have chosen will be there.

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LESSON ? EXPORTING SPECIALTIES

We started with image files because PDF's are just fancy versions of images and expor+ng a PDF to an image file gives you exactly what you think it will, a picture of that image. However, let's say there is a paragraph of text, a table, or a slide you want from a PDF what happens when we export various PDF's into these formats?

TEXT

This export will take you directly to just a plane text document that you will open in notepad. You will not get any of your drawing or image informa+on, but it will scrape all the text it can from the sheet and slap it down into a notepad file

RTF OR WORD

RTF or rich text format is basically the same thing as Word. There are some slight differences but when you export to RTF you will be opening the file in Word. The reason I even bring it up is if for some reason you are expor+ng a file into Word and it keeps stalling or erroring out on you, try to export to RTF you will get the same result and maybe it will find the work around to the error you are ge2ng.

Drawing Files

Now surprisingly we are going to export a drawing PDF to WORD and it will bring the drawing in to a WORD document as 24x36 with all the graphics and text. The text will be selectable, but the graphics will just be an image in a word document.

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