The most important features of Windvi are as follows:
- monochrome or grey scale bitmaps (antialiasing) for fonts,
- easy navigation through the dvi file
- page by page,
- with different increments (by 5 or 10 pages at a time)
- goto home, end, or any page within the document,
- different shrink factors to zoom page in and out,
- magnifying glass to show the page at the pixel level,
- use of .vf fonts
- display .pk .gf font files
- automatic generation of missing PK files even for PostScript fonts,
- tracking dvi file changes, and automatic reopening,
- understanding Omega extended dvi files,
- drag-and-drop file from the Windows shell explorer,
- color support (a-la dvips),
- real-time logging of background font generation,
- visualization of PostScript inclusions,
- graphical transformations under NT only,
- support of HyperTEX specials,
- printing support through the unified printer driver.