Using the Flatten and Unflatten tools

to Bluebeam Tips and Tricks. … I'm Jim Rogers, and in this episode … I want to continue a discussion that I started … in several other episodes … where I talk about flattening markups to the PDF document … as a way to secure those markups. … So I've shown you a couple of different ways to do that … in previous episodes, but in this episode, … of flattening markups, and show you some different ways … that you can manipulate that flattening feature … here in Bluebeam Review. … So to start out with, let's just take this stamp markup. … I applied a stamp that says approved … to this particular document, … and if you tuned into the previous episodes, … remember I said that you could right-click … on that markup and then simply select Flatten, … which essentially changes that from a markup … into part of the PDF content. … I can no longer select it, move it, alter it. … It's a permanent part of the document. … Kind of. … What I want to look at now is really, … how to manipulate this flattening feature. …