About device drivers and tools

StreamServe device drivers

A number of native StreamServe device drivers are included in the installation and available in Design Center.

Each device driver consists of:

•	A driver file (*.drs), and any files referred from this driver file, for example encoding files (*.enc) and mapping files (*.map). The driver file contains the information that the StreamServer application needs to communicate with the device.

•	Options, such as page size and duplex options, that you specify in the Design Center output connector settings.

StreamServe device driver tools

You cannot modify the native StreamServe device drivers. If a customized device driver is required, you must add the new device driver as a Custom device resource in a resource set connected to the Platform.

OpenText provides the following tools (running on Microsoft® Windows®) for creating customized device drivers:

•	Windows Driver Tool – Used to create new StreamServe compatible Windows printer drivers. See Using the Windows Driver Tool.

•	Device Tool – Used to create and modify custom StreamServe device drivers in the Design Center resource set. See Using the Device Tool.

Upgrading customized device drivers

When you create a customized device driver, the device driver is based on the driver files included in the StreamServe installation. After upgrading to a later version or installing a hotfix, you should recreate your customized device drivers to ensure that any changes made to the driver files are included in the customized device drivers.