Microsoft Minidriver Development Tool

The Microsoft Minidriver Development Tool (Microsoft MDT), which is included with this DDK as minidev.exe, is a software tool designed for easy development of Unidrv minidrivers.

Microsoft MDT provides the following features:

• Generic Printer Description (GPD) Editor

  Syntax-checking text editor for creating the GPD files that make up Unidrv minidrivers.

• UniDrv Font Metrics (UFM) Editor

  Property sheet-based editor that generates Unidrv Font Metrics files.

• Glyph Translation Table (GTT) Editor

  Property sheet-based editor that generates Glyph Translation Table files.

• MiniDriver Workspace

  Window-based editing workspace for a Unidrv minidriver, providing access to the minidriver's GPD file, resource file, UFM file, and GTT file.

• Minidriver Conversion Wizard

  Automatically converts binary minidrivers, used with previous versions of NT-based operating systems, into text-based minidrivers for Windows 2000 and later. When you use the Wizard, it creates a Windows 2000 (or later) minidriver by converting the files listed in the following table.

  Input files	File Contents	Output Files
  Windows GPC files	Printer capability descriptions	Windows 2000 and later GPD files
  Windows PFM files	Font descriptions	Windows 2000 and later UFM files
  Windows CTT files	Glyph translations	Windows 2000 and later GTT files

  
  

  Additionally, the conversion wizard generates resource files with the correct file names and resource identifiers.

• INF Wizard

  Automatically creates an INF file for the converted minidriver. (See Installing a Unidrv Minidriver.)

• String Resource Editor

  Dialog box used to modify text strings contained in a printer minidriver's resource file (.rc file).

For instructions on how to use Microsoft MDT, run the program and read its Help topics.