Look into BluebeamI am looking for a PDF reader / editor that can be used easily on digital versions of the NEC.
I'm really looking for hi-lighter tools
Thanks in Advance
Look into Bluebeam
Roger
With Adobe Reader you can cut and paste, highlight and add comments to the PDF version of the 2017 code. I assume the same it true of the handbook version, but I have the code only version.Adobe Reader the free and most popular reader has highlighting and other annotation tools, but if your document is locked you may not be able to use some of those tools. Wouldn't be surprised if NFPA has their files locked.
Look into Bluebeam
Roger
Look into Bluebeam
Roger
What sold me is the ability to automatically flag the differences between two sets of PDF drawings.
So, you've got a 130 sheet fire alarm set. We'll call it "A". In BlueBeam you do a whole bunch of markups for the CAD group to process. Hundreds of changes. You save the marked up set, and we'll call that "A prime". CAD makes the changes and sends them back. We'll call that set "B". How do you figure out if all the markups got done and that something else didn't get changed in the bargain? Well, you set up a compare between "A" and "B". Bluebeam will automatically bubble all the differences between the two sets and create a comparison set. We'll call that "B prime". Now you sit down at your two-screen lashup and open "A prime" on one screen and "B prime" on the other. Scroll page by page and do a quick visual check to see if they got everything or not. It takes Bluebeam about 5 minutes or so to generate that comparison set. You can use the same process to compare PDF sets that someone else sends you to hunt down design changes that might affect your work.
I have used the comparison clouds, but I like the comparison overlay better.
When you do the overlay, you get two layers, usually green and red for the different drawings.
Everything that is the same will be black and you can instantly see what has changed.
I.m trying the PDF X-change Editor. So far it seems to have all the fetures of Adobe and I believe I'm satifiied with.I use PDF Exchange Editor by tracker software.
The free version will view.
The pay version will edit PDFs, split or add pages, and 100's more features I don't know about, use, or want to explain.
Use it for viewing, filling out, and editing PDF documents.
Don't like Adobe. Always want's to update. Want's to run in the background. Is slow to load. Full program is very costly.
It looks like Adobie Acobat has a OCR capability built in.
No matter which direction you go there are drawbacks with using OCR programs.
They loose the format / form settings and could change the letters wrong.
An OCR takes pictures and tries to turn them back into words.
Well after 2 weeks of using PDF Exchange Editor by tracker software, I am very satisfied. I'm using the free edition and it is allowing me all of the Mark-up tools I'll ever need, including Clouds and Remarks with-in the cloud. I've read all your comments and PDF Exchange Editor by tracker software wins. Not only is it free, but it converts TXT and DOCX documents into PDF. I have also tweaked the search engine to got to the exact article / word I ask for.I.m trying the PDF X-change Editor. So far it seems to have all the fetures of Adobe and I believe I'm satifiied with.
I have yet to be able to search accuratly however. When I type an article # for example, it rarley takes me there. I think I need to explore th esearch options more.
Thanx for all responses.
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I've tried several, and ended up sticking with adobe and the document cloud subscription. The document cloud subscription gives you additional features on iOS devices that are useful. I recently started using the OCR features of acrobat on my phone instead of Microsoft lens.
I use Bluebeam also for marking up PDF drawings, but I use acrobat for all document editing, especially bid proposals where I need to do some additional formatting that my bid software doesn't do quite the way I want. I use it almost every day.
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I use Bluebeam for all of my PDF editing as well as drawing management.
Bluebeam also has a visual search.
Bluebeam probably has a ton of features I've never taken the time to learn. I got it specifically for drawing markups when I can't get the CAD files.
I used it recently to make E-sheets for a design/build project where the architect ONLY does HAND DRAWN blueprints. They don't even scan them into a PDF format; instead they mail you a copy of drawings. Any architectural changes have to be re-drawn and mailed back out. Blew my mind.
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