Patent ID: 7515306

Claim:
A document display method comprising: a first determination step of determining, in a case that a display magnification of document data to be displayed is reduced, whether or not the display magnification of the document data is equal to or greater than a predetermined display magnification; a second determination step of determining whether or not an area of a drawing object displayed in a displayable area is equal to or larger than a first threshold; an applying step of applying smoothing processing to image data of the document data if it is determined that (i) the display magnification of the document data is equal to or greater than the predetermined display magnification, and (ii) the area of the drawing object displayed in the displayable area is equal to or larger than the first threshold, and not applying the smoothing processing to the image data of the document data if it is determined that (i) the display magnification of the document data is equal to or larger than the predetermined display magnification, and (ii) the area of the drawing object displayed in the displayable area is smaller than the first threshold; and a display step of displaying the image data to which the smoothing processing has been applied in said applying step or the image data to which the smoothing processing has not been applied.