Bluebeam PDF Editor: Buy 4 Get 1 Free Deal @ AST Store

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AssociatedLnguyentai8 on 21/04/2015 - 15:49 techdeal.com.au (154 clicks)
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Bluebeam PDF editor buy 4 get 1 free promotion.

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Ideal PDF solution for firms that need a smart, simple and affordable solution to create, view, markup, and edit PDF files

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  Kozhutki on 21/04/2015 - 15:54

  No one here is going to pay $2140 for a PDF editor let alone $1400.

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    Gnostikos on 21/04/2015 - 15:57

    +1

    Genius; that's $2140 for 5 seats. That's $428 for one licence (with a subscription contract; so you get upgraded to the latest version as soon as they're released each year), which is cheap considering Acrobat Pro is $1000 or more, for one seat. Also, as I said in my post below, that's the "Extreme" edition of Bluebeam Revu, which no one will need. Revu Standard works out to $280 per licence.

    Every other PDF editor (Freeware or not) is an amateur hack-job that is not suitable for a proper enterprise environment and especially not Architects/CAD/Visualisation/Animation users. Bluebeam is the only legit Acrobat-killer out there.

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      Kozhutki on 21/04/2015 - 16:26

      Thanks for the lesson. Wasn't aware Bluebeam was legitimate, forgive my ignorance.

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        Gnostikos on 21/04/2015 - 16:42

        Didn't mean to get all preachy. For an individual, there's no need for 5 seats but for IT Admins/Managed Service Providers on OB, this will be a great deal.

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  Gnostikos on 21/04/2015 - 15:56

  +1

  For those who don't know, Bluebeam Revu is essentially Adobe Acrobat Pro at sane prices.
  5 seats for Revu Standard at $1,400 works out to $280 per licence which is pretty much the vendor average currently, plus you get the subscription contract which automatically upgrades your existing licence to the latest version that you simply download from Bluebeam's website, activate with your new key and away you go on the latest version.

  The older versions of Revu Standard like 7-8 were a bit funky, had compatibility issues and were missing a lot of functionality compared to Acrobat Pro but since Revu 11.7 (current version is Revu 2015 which is basically v13), it has been a bonafida Acrobat Pro-killer and even has functionality that is now better than Adobe's, like the 3D PDFs and the Comparison & Overlay tool.

  Though I have to say, I think the CAD & Extreme editions are completely unnecessary for virtually everyone, even architects. I handle Bluebeam licensing for many clients, some of them architecture firms, and none of them have ever bothered with Bluebeam Revu CAD.

  I will say that I've managed to get a 35 seat, Revu Standard volume licence with a subscription/maintenance contract for $2700~, which works out to $77 per licence, but that was only via upgrading a lot of pre-existing Bluebeam licences of varying ages. Pre-existing Bluebeam users should definitely enquire about upgrading their licences to the current edition for a discounted rate via their Bluebeam vendor.

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    PVA on 21/04/2015 - 20:46

    but is this post a deal? I have no idea about pricing, but seeing the deal is for the financial year ( a long time for a special promotion) it seems that it may be regular pricing (and you say its the vendor average price).
    I dont mean compared to another product, i mean compared to bluebeams pricing, is this a deal?

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      Gnostikos on 21/04/2015 - 22:23

      +1

      If you're buying 4, i.e. a volume licence for 20 seats in total (4 x 5 licences), and you get an additional 5 seats free, than heck yes, is it a deal. That's a $1400 - $2140 dollar saving.

      In effect, that deal makes 25 Revu Standard seats come to $5600, which works out to $224 per licence (including the maintenance option; which is usually an extra $20-60 dollars per seat with other vendors), so that makes it by far and away the cheapest retail price I have seen for a Bluebeam Revu Standard licence. The vendor I use for Bluebeam licensing charges about $260 for Revu Standard (excluding the maintenance option). Most will drop the price per seat for bulk volume licensing, but as you can see from Bluebeam's own pricing chart, you have to buy shit-tonne before it gets to around $224 per licence. Note, those prices exclude the maintenance option.

      Even without buying 4 x 5 seat licences; $280 for Revu Standard with maintenance is still better than most Bluebeam vendors unless you are a long-term client of theirs and do lots of bulk software licensing through them, where they might be able to give you significant discounts.

      Reiterating what I said earlier, this is not a deal for the individual, but for small organisations, $5600 is an attractive price for an office-wide PDF editing solution with full maintenance coverage for annual upgrades.

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        PVA on 22/04/2015 - 07:32

        Thanks.
        So it's $25 per seat cheaper than directly from the company, about a 10% discount. $224 V $249.

        I wrongly assumed it was 5 seats total not 25.

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  hoondaboy on 21/04/2015 - 16:15

  +1

  Our office has been on Bluebeam for about a year now and can certainly vouch for it. We use it to perform markups, rev-ups, etc for our drafting office. It's brilliant.
  Can't comment on general PDF functions but within the engineering discipline it certainly stacks up.

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    justtoreply on 21/04/2015 - 18:28

    Its fully feautured and works well. I must say the GUI seems like an afterthought though.