PDF Import To Scale

Prospector · 9 Feb 2020, 18:07

Now that Bluebeam Revu is no longer supported on Macs, our office is desperate to find a PDF editor with similar capabilities: e.g., dimensioning, annotating, etc. LayOut would be PERFECT for this, if only it could import PDFs to scale!

juju · 9 Feb 2020, 19:15

@prospector said:

Now that Bluebeam Revu is no longer supported on Macs, our office is desperate to find a PDF editor with similar capabilities: e.g., dimensioning, annotating, etc. LayOut would be PERFECT for this, if only it could import PDFs to scale!

Give FOXIT PHANTOMPDF a try, supported on Mac as well.

pbacot · 9 Feb 2020, 20:20

By "to scale", I think you mean that LayOut tends to reduce the size of inserted pdfs. Here's what I do with LayOut: I have a template that is paper size 5' x 5' and insert the pdf into that. It doesn't reduce the pdf. Then I copy and paste into a file with a regular size paper.

Not to say I think LayOut is "perfect" for anything, but if that works for you--it is possible to bring pdf drawings in at the size they were meant to be. Of course there is no snap to a pdf file. LayOut can be set to the scale the drawing is drawn at.

I am sorry to hear of the demise of the application before I even knew about it!

Prospector · 10 Feb 2020, 18:57

Thanks juju, Foxit looks promising. We're trying it out now. In all our web searches it never came up.

And thanks pbcot. That's a great tip for importing PDFs to scale. I actually really like LO. If only it were faster!