Publish to PDF Sheet Numbers in Bluebeam Revu

[Bill Tillman]

It's been a while since I worked with this and I seem to have forgotten something. I am publishing a set of layout tabs (24 of them) to a single PDF file. When the publish window comes up I can see the layout names and all looks well. After the publish is complete when I open the PDF file in Bluebeam Revu and try to add the links the sheet labels have a number sequence added to all of them. Instead of C1 or E1.1, I get [1]C1 and [2]E1.1. I can get things to work with the links but I have to rename each sheet to get them as needed for the links which can take some time for all 24 layouts. I recall this was not an issue when doing this about a year ago with another client.

Edited November 27, 2018 by Bill Tillman

[BIGAL]

Try this, you will need to download ghostscript seperately plots a range of layouts to PDF. You should be able to work out what its doing load getvals3 1st. Then plota3pdfrange2.

plotA3Pdfrange2.lsp

mergepdfs.lsp

GETVALS3.lsp

[maratovich]

This is how the latest versions of AutoCAD work. Setup in AutoCAD is not possible.
It is necessary or print through Lisp, VBA, the program.
Or delete it in a PDF processing program (for example, Adobe), there are programs for automatically deleting these numbers.

Edited November 29, 2018 by maratovich

[Bill Tillman]

Thanks maratovich, but I'm not fluent in that particular syntax.

 

And BIGAL, always appreciate your replies. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. A year ago I was doing this routinely and it worked well. The one difference I'll have to research when I get home tonight is instead of publishing to a single PDF file, I seem to recall we published each page individually, then combined them in Bluebeam Revu. I don't know if this will resolve the sheet naming issue but I will try that tonight. Your method looks interesting and I'll hack into that as soon as can.

 

[maratovich]

I'm sorry, corrected it was an auto translator

[BIGAL]

Dont forget to download ghostscript. 

[Bill Tillman]

Okay, it's all coming back to me now. What I did a year ago was to PUBLISH and set the PDF Options to print to individual files instead of a single PDF file. I also had to select to not to append the filename to the new files. Then I used the Combine feature in Bluebeam Revu to put all the files in a single PDF file. This allowed me to check the option to use the filename as the page label. That took care of the problem with the [1]. [2], etc... text in the page labels.

 

Now the remaining issue is why does BB not pickup the text I want linked on some of the blocks. I use several different blocks for detail bubbles and one of them gets picked up fine. The other one BB ignores. I tested and confirmed this. BB is only picking up a certain block and the other one I use similarly it's ignoring. Both blocks are in the same layer, and are almost identical in that they have a circle with the detail number in the top half and the sheet number in the bottom half. Oh well, I didn't have any plans for tonight except watching a football game with my  grandson so I'll end up hacking this to it's conclusion as well.

 

Edited November 29, 2018 by Bill Tillman