Re: [Pdfedit-support] Add Text Speed Problem & Right Alignment Option Feature Request

[Martin P. <ma...@pe...>]

> -- Bug --
> One problem I found was the speed of the application slowed down with
> each text I added.  Every time I added a new piece of text, it took
> longer to complete the operation.  I didn't time it, but let's say the
> first time I added text it took 1 sec, the second piece of text I added
> took 2 sec, the third 3 sec, ... the tenth 10 sec.  I was forced to save

This is known bug, unfortunately it is caused by deficient memory 
management in underlying libraries (QSA), so it will leak memory in 
addition to the slowdown.
We are solving it by porting PDFedit to Qt4 and QtScript. Unfortunately it 
means half of the GUI needs to be rewritten. Much of the work is already 
done (in qt-4 branch in CVS), but it is not complete yet. We expect it to 
be completed in about 2-4 weeks, but do not take this as guarantee.

> the file and restart the application after every 5 or so text additions
> simply because it was faster than waiting.  The number of characters in
> each text element did not seem to make a difference on the time.  The
> time was incurred when I finished adding it.  So with the Add Text tool,
> I click somewhere on the PDF, and it displays the text input field
> relatively quickly.  I type my text and then when I'm done, either
> clicking somewhere else in the document or on the scroll bar, or the
> title bar, PDFedit then "committed" the text to the document.  It was
> this "commit" stage which incurred the increasing time.
>
> -- Feature Request --
> It would be great to have the ability to right-align text.  Most of the
> editing in tax forms are numbers so it would be convenient to be able to

That could be useful. Can you submit this feature request to our bug 
tracker at http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php so we won't forget 
it? Currently the GUI is in state of almost complete rewrite, so we will 
finish the rewrite first before adding new features.

Martin Petricek

> click the Add Text option on the right-most part of the field and have
> the text right-aligned to that point (meaning the text would 'grow' to
> the left).