Adobe Inc.
Visual history for content state changes

Abstract:

Systems and methods provide for a visual history of state changes for content of a document that is being modified within a content editing application. When modifications are made to the content within the content editing application, the modifications are recorded as state changes, and a graphical representation is generated for the modified content at each state change. The graphical representations with associated state changes are presented in a visual history area allowing the user to visually identify the state of the content corresponding to each graphical representation. The user can select a particular graphical representation from the visual history area and the content is transformed to the state corresponding to the selected graphical representation.