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Part 5.  DocView Display (Screen) Presentation

The survey’s fifth area had two questions dealing with image legibility, plus a written comments section.

5.1 The document images DocView displayed were easy to read.

Eighty two percent of users felt that the images were easy to read. There was no correlation between image resolution (Question 2.3) and the results of this question. This was unexpected, since it was believed that higher resolution screens would give better readability.

5.2 Some characters were not very legible

This question is mainly a check on the first question in this part. Users would need to zoom in on an image if some characters are difficult to read.

Comments on DocView display (e.g., arrangement, legibility):

1. The only display images that were somewhat difficult for me to see were Tiff images that came from the WEB in the form of a map from the VHS tiff journals scanned in by NLM.

2. The toolbar icons convey the proper meaning. I would add letters to the characters. I would not use icons filling up the screen for the tiff files. The ability to store the tiff files in folders would be nice.

3. Full page display is easy to read, reduced format difficult.

4. Good, overall.

5. Our participating members sent me some examples and I thought they were just great.

6. As good as expected considering the original quality and screen resolution

7. Fine

8. Almost impossible to read on monitor display. When printed out on paper became much easier to read with quality better than a regular photocopy.

9. The images on screen were hard to read when the full width of the page was displayed, so I found it better to print out the document before reading it.

10. Improvement is still possible...

11 Display is adequate and legible. I usually just checkout the document quickly and print it immediately.

12. The legibility of the view appeared to be related to the scanned document, not to the program. Sometimes pages were scanned in backwards/upside down. When pages were upside down, DocView would rotate all pages, not just the problem ones.

13. I have not encountered any problems in this regard.

14. Images unreadable unless expand to full screen, which is slow.

15. Perhaps it could be streamlined a bit, but I really have no complaints.

16. I found laser print outs to be superior to the screen view.

17. If the original transmission was good, DocView reproduction was also good. Light print or colored inks would reduce the quality of the document.18. Text is very legible. Some of the images are not as good as I would like, especially if the original image was black or dark colors.

19. No problems so far. Printouts are surprisingly good.

20. Upside down pages first pages are a minor problem

21. Easy to read

22. The display is a bit fuzzy - like fax quality but the printout is good.

23. It is pretty good.

24. Not bad, a little clumsy, first generation windows (still behind MAC)

25. Fine!

26. Some graphics fuzzy, compared to pdf or other image viewers

27. Some photographs were not very legible

28. Ok

29. Very good