Less clutter in font menus of other applications MultipleMaster instances specified via input parameter, no multiple files are needed New API AddFontMemResourceEx Add process private fonts embedded in web pages, documents etc. These enhancements allow for design of richer ChooseFont dialogs by applications. Glyph Index API's A number of new API's added to allow for easier rendering of advanced typographic features such as kerning, ligatures, multiple forms and substitutions e.t.c. GDI32, USER32, drivers Possible because the system is internally Unicode. Printing, performance, security Remote printing architecture in NT 5.0 allows quick return to the application.
Print jobs are metafiled and metafiles are played on the print server.
Font rasterization is executed on the print server. Only fonts that are not present on the server are spooled with the print job. Large FE fonts that are not present on the server are first subsetted to contain only the glyphs used in the printed document, and only then are spooled. OpenType fonts are incrementally downloaded to PostScript printer. CFF table in PostScript OpenType fonts offers size and rasterization performance advantage relative to old Type 1 fonts.