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Smartform is SAP's own in-built tool for form printing, i have no idea about Stream server, it seems to be a third part tool for document management in SAP.
SmartForms is SAP's out-of-the box forms solution (successor of SAPScript).
However in some situations SmartForms is not enough. For example you might need extended printer driver support, extended barcode format support, advanced business graphics, white space management, post processing etc, etc.
In this case you can use StreamServe (a SAP Endorsed Business Solution) as a complementary product to handle document output (both printed and electronic) from SAP. See http://streamserve.com for some background. In this case you normally reuse some standard SmartForm / SAPScript / PDF-based print form in your system for which you enable raw data output (XSF, RDI or XFP respectively), and use your existing forms to provide data to StreamServe. Technically you would typically set up StreamServe as an output device in the Spool Administration and just print your document to the "StreamServe printer".
For some more options on connecting StreamServe and SAP, see my post in: []
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