Quickly make a markup permanent

- [Instructor] One of the common tools that I tend to use here in Bluebeam Revu is the Stamp tool, and it's a very easy tool to use. I use it for things like selecting Stamp, and then picking the Preliminary Stamp, for example, and applying it here. We'll just apply it to our Title Block. Doing that, quickly gives me a stamp that says preliminary. It gives me the date, and the time that I applied that stamp. Again, it's a really easy stamp to use. But one of the things that I like to do, when I use stamps like this that are trying to mark a drawing as preliminary, is I would like that stamp to be permanent.

I don't want anybody to remove it. I don't want it to be altered or changed. I want to make it permanent, so the way to easily do that is just by selecting it and right clicking, and then the resulting menu, we want to select Flatten. Now, when I do that, you'll see that I can no longer even select this stamp. It's been flattened onto the PDF image itself, or burned into this particular page.

Now, it can't be selected, it can't be moved, it can't be altered. It can't even be deleted. Just remember that it also can't be undone, so use this flatten feature judiciously, and make sure it's not something that you want to undo later, but when you're doing things like placing stamps that are marking a set of drawings as preliminary, or placing a stamp that says something like reviewed and rejected, you might want to make that permanent. Again, once you apply a stamp like that using Tools, Stamp, Draft Print we'll use this time.

Again, just Right + Click it, select Flatten, and you now have made your markup permanent, and it can't be moved. That's a quick tip for you this week. Hope to see you again next week in another episode of Bluebeam Tips and Tricks.