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Printing and Plotting Wiki An exception occurred populating the printer driver configuration ECInstance
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    An exception occurred populating the printer driver configuration ECInstance

       
      Applies To 
       
      Product(s): MicroStation
      Version(s): System.Data.DataRowView
      Environment:  N\A
      Area:  Printing
      Subarea:  N\A
      Original Author: Frank Reimann, Bentley Technical Support Group
       

     

    Problem Description
    The following message appears during the printer driver converting process, after trying to open a old style jpeg.plt Printer Driver :
    The printer driver configuration file “c:\Temp\jpeg.plt” cannot be opened
    MicroStation message Center
    An exception occurred populating the printer driver configuration ECInstance
    18 is greater than the maximum value of 2
    Steps to Resolve
    The problem was solved by uncommented the following line in the old style printer driver configuration file jpeg.plt using a semicolon

    ;raster_compression/format=18/methods=(0)

    See also

    http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/w/wiki/7188.video-printer-driver-file-conversion.aspx

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    • Frank Reimann Created by Frank Reimann
    • When: Mon, Aug 18 2014 8:33 AM
    • Frank Reimann Last revision by Frank Reimann
    • When: Tue, Aug 19 2014 3:30 AM
    • Revisions: 4
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