4.3 Features

4.3.1 Postscript inclusions

Windvi will allow you to preview many PostScript inclusions, including raw PostScript specials. See the Examples/wtest.tex file for examples. The bop / eop feature found in dvips is not yet supported.

Most of the features available are described in the document Examples/wtest.tex.

However, there is a drawback. The ghostscript interpreter will allow the whole page at the requested scaling factor to do its job. That means a color page on a 24bits device, A4 size at 600dpi will be as huge as 34Mb. This is enough to make your W9x crash. NT won't crash but will slow down a lot and may become unusable.

Eventually, PostScript visualization will be turned off automatically if it is detected that ghostscript will use too much memory.

4.3.2 Colors

Windvi will honor color specials as introduced either by colordvi (plain TEX) or color package (LATEX).

However, it is recommended to use this feature on true color devices. That means at least 32768 colors available.

On 256 colors devices, no antialiasing is done for color text. Moreover, the rendering maybe wrong because of the low number of colors available.