Q: Security and Digital Signatures

Security and Digital Signatures Standard CAD eXtreme Apply password protection and set permissions ✓ ✓ ✓ Add digital signature fields that require certified digital IDs ✓ ✓ ✓ Track all digital signatures and certificates ✓ ✓ ✓ Redact PDF content permanently ✓ Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files ✓

Question 1

Key Features

Accepted Answer

Key Features	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Comment on PDFs with customisable markup tools and save custom tools for easy access	✓	✓	✓
Track and manage annotations	✓	✓	✓
Upload files to the cloud and sync PDFs locally	✓	✓	✓
Collaborate on PDFs in real time with shared markups	✓	✓	✓
Access and view recent PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Search local drives and pin files in categories	✓	✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint^® and ProjectWise^®	✓	✓	✓
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts for your most-used tools	✓	✓	✓
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file	✓	✓	✓
Create and batch PDFs directly from Microsoft^® Office and Outlook^® and convert any Windows^® file to PDF	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from Revit^®, AutoCAD^® and SolidWorks^®		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks^® Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp^® Pro		✓	✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Use Automatic Form Creation to convert PDFs into forms			✓
Transfer measurement totals from a local PDF to an Excel spreadsheet in real-time using Quantity Link			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files with Batch Sign & Seal			✓
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using Batch Link^®			✓
Use Batch Slip Sheet to automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions for a group of documents.			✓

Question 2

Document Markup

Accepted Answer

Key Features	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Comment on PDFs with customisable markup tools and save custom tools for easy access	✓	✓	✓
Track and manage annotations	✓	✓	✓
Upload files to the cloud and sync PDFs locally	✓	✓	✓
Collaborate on PDFs in real time with shared markups	✓	✓	✓
Access and view recent PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Search local drives and pin files in categories	✓	✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint^® and ProjectWise^®	✓	✓	✓
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts for your most-used tools	✓	✓	✓
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file	✓	✓	✓
Create and batch PDFs directly from Microsoft^® Office and Outlook^® and convert any Windows^® file to PDF	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from Revit^®, AutoCAD^® and SolidWorks^®		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks^® Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp^® Pro		✓	✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Use Automatic Form Creation to convert PDFs into forms			✓
Transfer measurement totals from a local PDF to an Excel spreadsheet in real-time using Quantity Link			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files with Batch Sign & Seal			✓
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using Batch Link^®			✓
Use Batch Slip Sheet to automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions for a group of documents.			✓

Question 3

Page Content and Editing

Accepted Answer

Key Features	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Comment on PDFs with customisable markup tools and save custom tools for easy access	✓	✓	✓
Track and manage annotations	✓	✓	✓
Upload files to the cloud and sync PDFs locally	✓	✓	✓
Collaborate on PDFs in real time with shared markups	✓	✓	✓
Access and view recent PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Search local drives and pin files in categories	✓	✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint^® and ProjectWise^®	✓	✓	✓
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts for your most-used tools	✓	✓	✓
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file	✓	✓	✓
Create and batch PDFs directly from Microsoft^® Office and Outlook^® and convert any Windows^® file to PDF	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from Revit^®, AutoCAD^® and SolidWorks^®		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks^® Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp^® Pro		✓	✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Use Automatic Form Creation to convert PDFs into forms			✓
Transfer measurement totals from a local PDF to an Excel spreadsheet in real-time using Quantity Link			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files with Batch Sign & Seal			✓
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using Batch Link^®			✓
Use Batch Slip Sheet to automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions for a group of documents.			✓

Question 4

Plug-ins and Integration

Accepted Answer

Key Features	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Comment on PDFs with customisable markup tools and save custom tools for easy access	✓	✓	✓
Track and manage annotations	✓	✓	✓
Upload files to the cloud and sync PDFs locally	✓	✓	✓
Collaborate on PDFs in real time with shared markups	✓	✓	✓
Access and view recent PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Search local drives and pin files in categories	✓	✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint^® and ProjectWise^®	✓	✓	✓
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts for your most-used tools	✓	✓	✓
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file	✓	✓	✓
Create and batch PDFs directly from Microsoft^® Office and Outlook^® and convert any Windows^® file to PDF	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from Revit^®, AutoCAD^® and SolidWorks^®		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks^® Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp^® Pro		✓	✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Use Automatic Form Creation to convert PDFs into forms			✓
Transfer measurement totals from a local PDF to an Excel spreadsheet in real-time using Quantity Link			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files with Batch Sign & Seal			✓
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using Batch Link^®			✓
Use Batch Slip Sheet to automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions for a group of documents.			✓

Question 5

Security and Digital Signatures

Accepted Answer

Key Features	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Comment on PDFs with customisable markup tools and save custom tools for easy access	✓	✓	✓
Track and manage annotations	✓	✓	✓
Upload files to the cloud and sync PDFs locally	✓	✓	✓
Collaborate on PDFs in real time with shared markups	✓	✓	✓
Access and view recent PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Search local drives and pin files in categories	✓	✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint^® and ProjectWise^®	✓	✓	✓
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts for your most-used tools	✓	✓	✓
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file	✓	✓	✓
Create and batch PDFs directly from Microsoft^® Office and Outlook^® and convert any Windows^® file to PDF	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from Revit^®, AutoCAD^® and SolidWorks^®		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks^® Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp^® Pro		✓	✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Use Automatic Form Creation to convert PDFs into forms			✓
Transfer measurement totals from a local PDF to an Excel spreadsheet in real-time using Quantity Link			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files with Batch Sign & Seal			✓
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using Batch Link^®			✓
Use Batch Slip Sheet to automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions for a group of documents.			✓

Bluebeam Revu Features

Revu Feature Comparison

Document Markup	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Annotate PDFs with markups such as customised text, shapes, stamps and watermarks	✓	✓	✓
Measure PDFs with built-in measurement tools	✓	✓	✓
Flatten PDF markups	✓	✓	✓
Change markup properties and save for reuse	✓	✓	✓
Create custom filters and save them for later use	✓	✓	✓
Assign markups to layers	✓	✓	✓
View, filter and sort markups and comments	✓	✓	✓
Generate and export a CSV, PDF or XML summary of all markups in a file	✓	✓	✓
Import PDF markups	✓	✓	✓
Create calibrated polygons, polylines, rectangles, and ellipses using Sketch to Scale tools	✓	✓	✓
Insert hyperlinks into documents and assign a hyperlink to a specific area	✓	✓	✓
Create and add dynamic stamps to PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Embed general photos, 360° photos and videos in markups	✓	✓	✓
Calibrate tool sets to dynamically resize on PDFs with different scales/viewports	✓	✓	✓
Apply measurements of different scale in one PDF using viewports	✓	✓	✓
Translate markups to different languages	✓	✓	✓
View 3D PDFs and markup 3D views	✓	✓	✓
Add formulas to custom columns for calculations	✓	✓	✓
Create custom statuses	✓	✓	✓
Generate and export a PDF summary of all markups across multiple files	✓	✓	✓
Erase and cut PDF content	✓	✓	✓
Track and generate reports on markups located in pre-defined customised regions	✓	✓	✓
Create custom hatch patterns	✓	✓	✓
View and apply custom hatch patterns	✓	✓	✓
Create a table of contents from bookmarks	✓	✓	✓
Create and save markup legends	✓	✓	✓
Tag files to sort and navigate Sets documents	✓	✓	✓
Section off and fill drawing regions to generate markups, measurements and spaces with Dynamic Fill	✓	✓	✓
Apply scale to multiple sheets simultaneously	✓	✓	✓
Use a pre-defined list of commonly used scales when applying measurement tools	✓	✓	✓

Page Content and Editing	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Extract, delete, rotate and insert blank pages	✓	✓	✓
Customise the size of new pages and resize existing pages	✓	✓	✓
Drag document tabs out of the interface and into their own windows across multiple monitors	✓	✓	✓
Embed file attachments	✓	✓	✓
Overlay pages to compare two or more PDF revisions	✓	✓	✓
Combine separate documents to create a single PDF	✓	✓	✓
Preserve hyperlinks when combining linked PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Reduce file size using preset fidelity options	✓	✓	✓
Insert existing PDF pages	✓	✓	✓
Batch compare multiple drawing revisions	✓	✓	✓
Split documents without altering the source file	✓	✓	✓
Preserve hyperlinks when separating linked PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Reduce file size with customisable fidelity options	✓	✓	✓
Add and edit headers and footers	✓	✓	✓
Create bookmarks and page labels automatically	✓	✓	✓
Launch multiple instances of Revu	✓	✓	✓
Search for symbols	✓	✓	✓
Customise toolbars	✓	✓	✓
Process colours	✓	✓	✓
Access and navigate documents as a single PDF	✓	✓	✓
Automatically create bookmarks using content from PDFs	✓	✓	✓
Create forms automatically, even from scans			✓
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)			✓
Batch process hyperlinks for large document sets			✓
Implement scripting commands			✓
Automatically append, prepend or replace existing page content in complex file sets with new file revisions			✓

Plug-ins and Integration	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
One-click PDF creation and batch directly from Microsoft Office and Outlook	✓	✓	✓
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks		✓	✓
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks Manage, Navisworks Simulate and SketchUp Pro		✓	✓
Convert Revit Rooms to Revu Spaces		✓	✓
Integrate with SharePoint and ProjectWise	✓	✓	✓
Transfer hyperlinks from an AutoCAD file	✓	✓	✓
Convert any Windows file to PDF or 10 other file formats using the Bluebeam PDF printer	✓	✓	✓
Export scanned PDFs as editable Word, Excel^® and PowerPoint^® documents	✓	✓	✓
Batch convert files from AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks to PDF, TIF, JPG, BMP, PSD, PNG, PCL, GIF, EMF and WMF files		✓	✓
Import files with SHX fonts from AutoCAD		✓	✓
Import sheet sets from AutoCAD		✓	✓
Link real-time data from measurement markups to Excel worksheets			✓

Security and Digital Signatures	Standard	CAD	eXtreme
Apply password protection and set permissions	✓	✓	✓
Add digital signature fields that require certified digital IDs	✓	✓	✓
Track all digital signatures and certificates	✓	✓	✓
Redact PDF content permanently			✓
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files			✓