Keeping Track of Changes and Re-use in PowerPoint Presentations
Hedi Radhouane · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2013
Documents are a set of components, we could define a document, almost exclusively, by the components it contains.In this thesis, we investigate the ways to keep track of changes and re-use in a document.We will explain how to keep a history, what are the advantages and disadvantages of two types of history.We will describe ways of re-using the components we keep track of and we will explain how we do it.Finally, we will investigate how to display this information to a user.We will need to display the objects the user created and the relation between each of them.In this thesis, we will create a software that actually keeps track of changes and re-use of components in a document.This software will act on PowerPoint presentations.The development of this plug-in will also be explained in this report.Finally, the results will show that we can keep track of re-use by providing a mechanism of versioning for the documents as well as for their components.iii