Bluebeam(R) Software Releases International Versions of Bluebeam PDF Revu(R) 9 in Four Nordic Languages

PASADENA, California, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- New release offers Enhanced Usability, Advanced Features to Streamline PDF-Based Digital Workflows

Today Bluebeam Software is announcing the immediate availability of Bluebeam PDF Revu 9 in Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish. Revu 9 is the latest, fully-loaded version of its PDF platform technologies that provides a smart, simple solution to create, markup, edit and manage PDF files, with specialized features for architecture, engineering and construction.

"Revu 9 is truly fully loaded. We took everything our users love about Revu for project communication, incorporated their feedback and feature suggestions and made it better," said Bluebeam Software CEO Richard Lee. "The result is more power, more flexibility and enhanced usability to help our customers get their job done."

For high-quality CAD-to-PDF file conversion, Revu 9 extends Bluebeam's powerful PDF plugin capabilities to support AutoCAD and Revit 2012. Revu 9 also includes over 30 new features and enhancements to support digital workflows including:

    
    - 3D PDF viewing capability for navigating through complex
      models on screen and rotating, spinning and zooming to gain a dynamic
      view of the project.
    - The exclusive VisualSearch(TM) for selecting a specific symbol in
      a PDF and searching for all instances of it. Users can instantly apply
      highlights to search results or hyperlink them to additional reference
      data.
    - Improved PDF creation from AutoCAD, including enhancements to the
      batch PDF creation plugin for multi-selecting DWGs and adjusting output
      settings such as page setups and text stamps, and the ability to add
      sheet sets for batch file conversion.
    - Measurement cutout, a highly-requested function to Revu's
      measurement tools that accounts for room obstructions in area
      measurements.
    - PDF-to-MS Office creation for seamlessly converting PDF files to
      Word, Excel(R) and PowerPoint(R) for significant text edits, as well as
      HTML.
    - PDF Forms creation for transforming any PDF into a fillable PDF
      form.
    - PDF Scripting, enabling users to engage 25 script commands to
      automate repetitive processes such as inserting PDF coversheets, adding
      text stamps, flattening PDFs and more.
    - MultiView(TM) Extended for running multiple sessions of Bluebeam
      concurrently, moving document tabs dynamically between sessions and to
      additional monitors for expanded viewing.
    - Better foreign language support, including Unicode text support
      for adding text-based markups in any left-to-right reading language and
      a markup translation feature that instantly translates markups to more 
      than55 languages.
    - PDF/A support for the long-term archival of PDF documents.

Additionally, Bluebeam has also released localized versions of Bluebeam PDF Revu 9 in German and Spanish.

Bluebeam PDF Revu 9 is available in three editions - Revu Standard for general CAD and Office users, Revu CAD for AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks(R) users and the new Revu eXtreme for PDF power users.

Bluebeam Software products are sold in Europe through a network of authorized resellers. For more information and to download a 30-day trial, visit http://www.bluebeam.no, http://www.bluebeam.dk, http://www.bluebeam.fi or http://www.bluebeam.se.

About Bluebeam Software

Bluebeam Software makes smart, simple solutions for paperless workflows based on the PDF format. Founded in 2002 in Pasadena, California, to support CAD-to-PDF creation for the aerospace industry, Bluebeam's award-winning PDF creation, markup and editing solutions are used today by the world's top architectural, engineering, construction and manufacturing firms, as well as government agencies as an easy-to-use, PDF-based solution for dramatically improved, paperless workflows. Learn more at www.bluebeam.com.