Select Wait for completion in the Rendering Mode dropdown menu and click OK.ģ.

In Revu, click Revu > Preferences or press Ctrl+K.

This will reduce the total redraw time for the PDF, especially for 4k displays. Instead, the screen will not update until the full page is ready to display. The Wait for Completion rendering mode disables partial redrawing of the display.

If you are using Revu 2018 or older, try switching your rendering engine to Skia, as you will not have Hardware available.

If you are experiencing issues with hardware rendering, you can try switching to Software instead.

Select Hardware in the Rendering Engine drop-down menu, and click OK.

Make sure you are in the 2D Rendering tab. In Revu 2017 and older, go to Settings > Preferences > Rendering.

In Revu 2018 and newer, go to Revu > Preferences , or press Ctrl+K.

It is designed to offer a compact an low power consumption solution but can struggle with some more advanced graphics. In a lot of cases, especially if you are using a laptop, the graphics card on your machine may be a quite low powered chip that is integrated into your main CPU. Hardware rendering generally works best, especially if you have a dedicated graphics card. Revu has multiple rendering engine options. Most issues are usually fixed in the first 2 steps 😉 Solutions 1. So simply start at the top of the list and work your way down if you don’t resolve it immediately. They are arranged in order going from easy to more advanced. I’ve also added in some comments of my own based on my years of experience doing tech support. I’ve listed below Bluebeam’s suggested solutions to address the issues above.

Opening documents takes longer than usual.

Slow document rendering and refreshing when zooming and navigating.

Some common Problems that this article will look to address: Some PDF’s can be quite graphics intensive or large and having an idea of some simple fixes that can speed things up is handy to have for future reference. Every software can experience slowdowns from time to time with Bluebeam Revu being no exception.

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