We're not going to work with that again, but I do want to look at one more built-in way to convert image files and that is just by going to File and then Open. I'm going to go ahead and close that file. There is one last way that you can convert image files, in particular. Used to be a photo format or an image file and now it's converted to a PDF. Click on okay and I've got my full-page photo. In this case, I want to rotate that image 180 degrees. That's pretty easy to fix in Bluebeam Revu by selecting Document and then rotate pages. Doing that, you'll see I immediately have my image file converted into a PDF. I'm going to leave all of the rest of the defaults set and click on save. I'm going to save it in my Documents folder and leave it named Full Page Photo. Again, a dialog box will open asking me to name it. So I'm going to go ahead and click on print there. It's a TIFF image file and when I double click on that, my Windows computer opens up Windows Photo Viewer and there is no plugin for Windows Photo Viewer, but I can still convert this photo or this image file into a PDF by just selecting print and then making sure that I choose the Bluebeam PDF printer that got installed when I installed the software. Let's take a look at how that works by navigating back to those exercise files and double clicking. Now along with the plugins, there's also a PDF printer that gets installed when you install Bluebeam Revu. So as I do that, you'll see it quickly run through the conversion process and just like that, we have changed the document from a Word document into a Bluebeam PDF document, or a PDF document, really, that can be opened by any PDF reader. I'm just going to set that to default and I'm going to leave the rest of the options at their default and click on save. I'm going to put that in my Documents folder, just leave it named StatementOfWork. It's going to ask me to name the resulting document. Doing that opens up just a standard Word document, but I see that at the top here, I now have a menu tab for Bluebeam that allows me to have some control over the settings and create a Bluebeam PDF. I want to double click on the Microsoft Word file. Navigating back to our exercise files, if we open up the exercise files for this chapter, we see that we've got a couple of files here. If you just have the standard version, you should only see the Microsoft Office plugins installed. Now these plugins will only get installed if you have these existing programs and for the CAD, Navisworks, Revit, SketchUp and SolidWorks plugins, they'll only be installed if you have Bluebeam Revu CAD or Extreme versions. So those include AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, Revit, Navisworks, SolidWorks, SketchUp Pro and then plugins for the Microsoft Office programs Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Quickly navigating over to Bluebeam's support website and searching for plugins brings me to an article that shows me all of the current plugins that should've been installed with Bluebeam Revu. In this video, I'll talk about the plugins and converters that Revu includes and installs when you install Bluebeam and these allow you to create PDFs from other software programs. Besides just being able to work with existing PDF documents, Bluebeam Revu contains a number of different methods for creating new PDF files.
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