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ProjectWise Design Integration Forum Photo Preview of PDF files doesn't work with Bluebeam installed
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    Photo Preview of PDF files doesn't work with Bluebeam installed

    AndyKing-Pit
    Offline AndyKing-Pit over 6 years ago

    Running with PW SS4 .590 or PW CE .67, with Acrobat Reader 11 installed, PhotoPreview of PDF files works properly.

    Once I installed Bluebeam 2015.6 - standard as a PDF editor (Acrobat Reader 11 remains on the machine), Bluebeam becomes the app for PhotoPreview and the PDF files do not preview properly.

    How do I set the PhotoPreview back to Acrobat Reader?

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    • Bill Kenney
      0 Offline Bill Kenney Wed, Dec 28 2016 8:20 AM
      Andy, Have you tried changing the windows setting Start Menu> right pane > Default Programs >"Associate a File Type with a Specific Program " > Highlight .PDF > select "Change Program" button ?

         
      This is a test

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    • Bill Kenney
      0 Offline Bill Kenney Wed, Dec 28 2016 8:20 AM
      Andy, Have you tried changing the windows setting Start Menu> right pane > Default Programs >"Associate a File Type with a Specific Program " > Highlight .PDF > select "Change Program" button ?

         
      This is a test

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    • AndyKing-Pit
      0 Offline AndyKing-Pit Tue, Jan 3 2017 10:16 AM in reply to Bill Kenney
      Yes. I have tried setting the default App to acrobat reader both in Windows and setting the default app to Acrobat reader the ProjectWise association.

      The PhotoPreview works fine using Acrobat until I install Bluebeam. Once Bluebeam is installed it becomes the default PhotoPreview app for PDF files.

      You should be able to download a trial from Bluebeam to replicate the same. There must be a setting somewhere that I can use to force the PDF photo previewer back to Acrobat.

      I've tried/replicated this behavior with 8.11.590 and 10.0.01.67.

      To replicate - remove Bluebeam if installed.
      Install Acrobat Reader I used v11.
      Install ProjectWise.

      Check PhotoPreview for a PDF.
      Install Bluebeam 2015.6 review standard.
      Check PhotoPreview for a PDF again.
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    • Paul Patterson
      0 Offline Paul Patterson Tue, Jan 3 2017 10:33 AM in reply to AndyKing-Pit
      Andy,

      We are heavy users of Bluebeam!

      To enable BB within this tab, open up BlueBeam Administrator, click on the Revu tab, ensure Use as Default PDF viewer is checked.. and also Display PDF in Internet Explorer..

      I can't remember whether it needed to be set as a 32 bit app..

      regardless, some combination or permutation of the settings within this tab will load BB within the Photo Preview tab in PWE!

      Similar settings would force Acrobat to load instead of BB..

      Hope that helps,

      Paul
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    • Molly Watts
      0 Offline Molly Watts Tue, Jan 3 2017 10:38 AM in reply to AndyKing-Pit
      Hi Andy, in addition to what Paul has said... I believe there was an issue with Bluebeam that caused problems like this recently... they have fixed it in 2016.5



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    • AndyKing-Pit
      0 Offline AndyKing-Pit Tue, Jan 3 2017 2:34 PM in reply to Paul Patterson
      Thanks Paul/Molly. This was the inverse of what I was looking for but allowed me to find a solution.

      Essentially - Bluebeam was the default Photo Preview app after install but was not working with 2015.6, and I was looking to set the default to something else. In BB admin, on the Revu tab, unchecking the checkbox in the "web browser" section "Display PDF in Internet Explorer" controls what application is used in ProjectWise for PDF Photo Previews.

      The checkbox to Use Revu as the default PDF editor had no effect, and setting it between 32 and 64 bit had no effect (I tried the different combinations).

      We'll retest as Molly suggested when we upgrade later this year to BB 2016.6 and see if BB then works for Photo Previews within ProjectWise for PDF files.
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    • Molly Watts
      0 Offline Molly Watts Tue, Jan 3 2017 3:08 PM in reply to AndyKing-Pit

      The Photo Preview tab is simply opening the file in a web browser... so to test, right click on a pdf outside of PW and open in internet explorer. With the issues I had seen, this also did not work when Bluebeam was the default application on the machine. That is what they have fixed in the newer releases.



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