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msteffke15-Moonstone
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November 29, 2016
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Pdf Viewer - that can measure

  • November 29, 2016
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Any favorite PDF viewers (pay or Free)  you can recommend that can measure nicely?

Acrobat and PDF-xChange viewer are OK but the measuring ability is horrible.


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    dschenken1-Visitor
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    November 29, 2016

    Depending on the file - you can run the PDF through Ghostview and export as a dxf. However, PDF typically reduces curves and arcs to line segments, so one loses the ability to directly locate the center unless cross marks are built in.

    Other than that, GIMP and Photoshop can render the files to bitmaps and there are rulers available in both of those for making measurements in either pixel space or scaled by rulers.

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    asweeney3-Newcomer
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    December 14, 2016

    I have used BlueBeam Revu for the past several years and I like it. They do have a free version with limited functionality that I believe can also measure.

    http://www.bluebeam.com/

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    The picture shown above is a PDF generated by Creo 3.0. I used the Calibrate and Measure tools in BlueBeam Revu  to insert the dimension in red.

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      msteffke15-MoonstoneAuthor
      15-Moonstone
      December 16, 2016

      Wow this Bluebeam looks really promising!    Calibration, precision, YES!!!  I will dig into it and see how it works with our processes, but so far its the best viewer I've ever seen.    Re-exporting the current PDF is not an option.  These are all being auto created by my toolkit, I could easy just create a dxf at the same time but I don't want to have two copies of exports to maintain.

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      asweeney3-Newcomer
      3-Newcomer
      December 16, 2016

      The full version (Pay For) "Revu" is around $250 and it can save everything.

      Another feature that I like is that I can filter the markups during printing so that I don't print the notes/measurements unless I want to.

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