OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVD equipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hi
 
I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
apply.
 
The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two order
numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the manual
etc. 
 
Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?
 
My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above the
IVD logo have something like applicable to the US market but that idea
was discarded by regulatory affairs.
 
I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline
 
Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
Verner Andersen
Technical Writer

Radiometer Medical ApS
Phone +45 3827 3612
Fax +45 3827 2727
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Radiometer Medical ApS 
Akandevej 21 
2700 Bronshoj 
Denmark 
Phone: +45 38 27 38 27 
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RE: Changing Track Revisions display

2008-10-01 Thread Fred Wersan
I would like to have deleted text hidden. I thought that Frame might 
use conditional text to control the display of tracked text. 


If all you want to do is hide the deleted text (versus changing the 
formatting, which is what people responded to), you can do that from the 
Track Changes menu or toolbar. There are options to show the original, 
show the changed version, or show all changes.

Fred
-- 
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Senior Technical Writer
MAK Technologies
68 Moulton St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-876-8085
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Re: OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVD equipment?

2008-10-01 Thread John Posada
What's IVD?

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi

 I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
 symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
 apply.



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Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

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 -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
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RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVDequipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hello Verner,

I create a regulatory insert sheet for my company's products.  Many of
the logos, such as the GS mark, C-Tick, or NOM apply only to certain
countries.  Is that what an IVD symbol is?  Do you mean that the LVD is
only applicable in the US (other countries don't use this standard), or
that the LVD only approved for the US (you don't have approval in other
countries)?
 
- Susan

 -Original Message-
 Subject: OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
 IVDequipment?
 
 Hi
 
 I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
 symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
 apply.
 
 The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
 with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two
order
 numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the
manual
 etc.
 
 Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?
 
 My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above the
 IVD logo have something like applicable to the US market but that
idea
 was discarded by regulatory affairs.
 
 I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline
 
 Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
 Verner Andersen
 Technical Writer
 
 Radiometer Medical ApS
 Phone +45 3827 3612
 Fax +45 3827 2727
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
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RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVDequipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hi Verner,

What I'm trying to determine is whether you could put the symbol on the
book and have a null effect.  Similar to when I publish a C-Tick symbol
in my manuals.  Only Australia uses that symbol, so it has a null effect
for any other country.  Therefore, it can go in every manual and I don't
have to create a new, Australia-only, version of the manual.  If the IVD
symbol won't signify anything in other countries, then you'd be safe to
put it on and print for all countries.  But if it indicates compliance
with a standard that has *not* been met in other countries, then I think
you'd have to create a different manual for the US market only.  
 
- Susan

 -Original Message-
 From: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:56 AM
 To: Corcoran, Susan
 Subject: RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
 IVDequipment?
 
 Hi Susan
 
 IVD stand for In Vitro Diagnostics. In USA FDA considers our software
 product a patient diagnostics system and consequently we must have the
 IVD symbol on the manual. The rest of the world does not consider our
 product IVD equipment, so we don't need the symbol on their manuals.
 
 Our hardware product is considered an IVD product all over the world,
so
 here we can use the same manual for say UK and the USA.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Verner
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Radiometer Medical ApS
 Akandevej 21
 2700 Bronshoj
 Denmark
 Phone: +45 38 27 38 27
 CVR: 27 50 91 85
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 
 From: Corcoran, Susan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: 1. oktober 2008 15:42
 To: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA; framers@lists.frameusers.com;
 FrameMaker discussion list (omsys) (FrameMaker discussion list(omsys))
 Subject: RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and
 non-IVDequipment?
 
 Hello Verner,
 
 I create a regulatory insert sheet for my company's products.  Many of
 the logos, such as the GS mark, C-Tick, or NOM apply only to certain
 countries.  Is that what an IVD symbol is?  Do you mean that the LVD
is
 only applicable in the US (other countries don't use this standard),
or
 that the LVD only approved for the US (you don't have approval in
other
 countries)?
 
 - Susan
 
  -Original Message-
  Subject: OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
  IVDequipment?
 
  Hi
 
  I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the
IVD
  symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
  apply.
 
  The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
  with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two
 order
  numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the
 manual
  etc.
 
  Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?
 
  My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above
the
 
  IVD logo have something like applicable to the US market but that
 idea
  was discarded by regulatory affairs.
 
  I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline
 
  Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
  Verner Andersen
  Technical Writer
 
  Radiometer Medical ApS
  Phone +45 3827 3612
  Fax +45 3827 2727
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
 
 
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filename markers missing from ePP 9.2 versions

2008-10-01 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks for all your various help as I've tried to figure out why ePP 9.2
(I've tried various builds) with FM 7.2 unstructured does not pick up
over half my filename markers. Paul Mueller has been really helpful
supplying great documentation and suggesting ideas as well! While I'm
still trying a couple options, it looks like it comes down to a glitch
in ePP 9.2 that filename markers/topics that follow any topic with a
graphic in an anchored frame get skipped. Mike Stover figured out a cool
(but laborious) workaround which would be crazy for me to implement with
my hundreds of topically named pages, so I'm sadly regressing to ePP 9.1
for our upcoming product release.
 
However, I want to include two products' manuals in the help for this
upcoming product's help. Does anyone know, is there a way for ePP 9.1 to
read in variables from the documents? I wanted this capability in ePP
9.2; in ePP 9.1 I've found only a list box titled Value: for input of
each variable. Is there any way I can force ePP 9.1 to read the
variables from the files?
 
Thanks again - I've found Framers to be so helpful!!
 
Callie Bertsche

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Re: filename markers missing from ePP 9.2 versions

2008-10-01 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Callie,

FrameScript is great for automating workarounds that would be impractical to 
do by hand. Let me know what the exact workaround would be and I will let 
you know if it is feasible with FrameScript. Also, if this is the result of 
an ePublisher bug, I have contacts at Quadralay that may be able to address 
it.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

 Mike Stover figured out a cool
 (but laborious) workaround which would be crazy for me to implement with
 my hundreds of topically named pages... 

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FW: ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-10-01 Thread Callie Bertsche
Haha. Thanks, Mike. Rick, follow the thread below for the workaround.
Everyone on the list who doesn't care about this, sorry I'm adding a
grown-rather-lengthy thread. Perhaps the workaround will interest some
folks. Seems that each help generation software I've researched has a
rather steep learning curve of mastering bits of obscure logic. :)

Callie


-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:06 AM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Sure. Tell him if he can automate that, I'll buy a couple copies of
FrameScript! (Actually, we have been meaning to for a long time.)

Mike

-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:05 AM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Rick Quatro asked for your workaround in case it can be automated with
framescript. Would you be comfortable with my or your sharing it with
the list? If not, I totally understand. I'm a bit dubious that something
as extensive as this (with ePP involved) could be automated, but still.
:)
Cheers,
Callie 

-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:17 PM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

I took a couple stabs using various various trial versions of Flare and
went to a sales presentation, but I was just having a hard time figuring
it out. And their FrameMaker support wasn't that great. We used Frame
and WebWorks 7 for a long time and just switched to epub six months ago.
It wasn't cheap and it has been a bit of a pain. We keep bumping into
problems and constantly get told it will be fixed in the next release.
My tech writer is at the WebWorks Roundup conference this week.
Hopefully he is picking up solutions to all of our woes.

Mike

-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Thanks!
Whew, that is ugly. :)
I appreciate your itemization of such weirdness! I'll try the duplicate
filename markers first, with my fingers crossed...
We have our budget plan coming up and I'm thinking switching to MadCap
Flare. Have you tried that software at all? If you have, I'd be
interested in your opinion of it.

Cheers,
Callie

-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:05 PM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Hi Callie,

Let's say my help file has three topics, A, B, and C in that order. If
there is an anchored frame in the section of my FrameMaker file that
contains the contents of topic B, then the filename marker for C would
be ignored. The markers in A and B would work, but not C.

At one point Quadralay was saying you could work around the bug by
putting two identical filename markers in each topic. That didn't work
for me, but you might try it.

I wound up adding passthrough code in my FrameMaker files that generated
the same HTML as the anchored frame. Then I hid the anchored frame using
conditional text. The ePub help file has a fairly good explanation of
how to do this, but here's the steps that I followed:

1. I created a new condition in FrameMaker called Screenshot and
applied it to the anchored. 
2. I created a second new condition in FrameMaker called
PassThroughCode
3. I generated my Help file with the Screenshot condition turned on.
Then I copied the HTML for each screenshot directly below the
corresponding anchored frame in FrameMaker.
4. I applied the PassThroughCode condition to the HTML that I added in
FrameMaker.
5. In the Output directory of my epub project, I made a copy of my
graphics folder and I would have copies of all the screenshots.
6. In epub I selected Project  Conditions and added the new conditions.
And I checked the PassThrough box for the PassThroughCode condition. I
set Screenshot to Hidden and PassThroughCode to Visible and generate
the help again.
7. Restore any missing graphics to your Output directory from the copy
of the graphics folder you created earlier.
8. If you are creating WebWorks Help, your are done. If you are creating
a chm file, run the project through HTMLHelp Workshop.

It's a pretty ugly solution, but it's all I could think of at the time. 
I just need to bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version of epub
and hope the problem is actually fixed.

Hope that helps,

Mike







-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:55 PM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Thanks again for this message, Mike. I just thought of a question.
Do you mean that the graphic is the last thing in one topic, before the
heading of another topic that gets missed because of the anchored frame
just above? Or do you mean that any 

Changing Track Revisions display

2008-10-01 Thread Fred Wersan
"I would like to have deleted text hidden. I thought that Frame might 
use conditional text to control the display of tracked text. "


If all you want to do is hide the deleted text (versus changing the 
formatting, which is what people responded to), you can do that from the 
Track Changes menu or toolbar. There are options to show the original, 
show the changed version, or show all changes.

Fred
-- 
Fred Wersan
Senior Technical Writer
MAK Technologies
68 Moulton St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-876-8085


OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVD equipment?

2008-10-01 Thread John Posada
What's IVD?

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
> symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
> apply.



-- 
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
 -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager


Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVDequipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hello Verner,

I create a regulatory insert sheet for my company's products.  Many of
the logos, such as the GS mark, C-Tick, or NOM apply only to certain
countries.  Is that what an IVD symbol is?  Do you mean that the LVD is
only applicable in the US (other countries don't use this standard), or
that the LVD only approved for the US (you don't have approval in other
countries)?

- Susan

> -Original Message-
> Subject: OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
> IVDequipment?
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
> symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
> apply.
> 
> The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
> with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two
order
> numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the
manual
> etc.
> 
> Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?
> 
> My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above the
> IVD logo have something like "applicable to the US market" but that
idea
> was discarded by regulatory affairs.
> 
> I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline
> 
> Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
> Verner Andersen
> Technical Writer
> 
> Radiometer Medical ApS
> Phone +45 3827 3612
> Fax +45 3827 2727
> verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
> 
> 


Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVDequipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Corcoran, Susan
Hi Verner,

What I'm trying to determine is whether you could put the symbol on the
book and have a null effect.  Similar to when I publish a C-Tick symbol
in my manuals.  Only Australia uses that symbol, so it has a null effect
for any other country.  Therefore, it can go in every manual and I don't
have to create a new, Australia-only, version of the manual.  If the IVD
symbol won't signify anything in other countries, then you'd be safe to
put it on and print for all countries.  But if it indicates compliance
with a standard that has *not* been met in other countries, then I think
you'd have to create a different manual for the US market only.  

- Susan

> -Original Message-
> From: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
[mailto:verner.andersen at radiometer.dk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:56 AM
> To: Corcoran, Susan
> Subject: RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
> IVDequipment?
> 
> Hi Susan
> 
> IVD stand for In Vitro Diagnostics. In USA FDA considers our software
> product a patient diagnostics system and consequently we must have the
> IVD symbol on the manual. The rest of the world does not consider our
> product IVD equipment, so we don't need the symbol on their manuals.
> 
> Our hardware product is considered an IVD product all over the world,
so
> here we can use the same manual for say UK and the USA.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Verner
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Radiometer Medical ApS
> Akandevej 21
> 2700 Bronshoj
> Denmark
> Phone: +45 38 27 38 27
> CVR: 27 50 91 85
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> 
> From: Corcoran, Susan [mailto:Susan.Corcoran at Honeywell.com]
> Sent: 1. oktober 2008 15:42
> To: Andersen, Verner Engell VEA; framers at lists.frameusers.com;
> FrameMaker discussion list (omsys) (FrameMaker discussion list(omsys))
> Subject: RE: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and
> non-IVDequipment?
> 
> Hello Verner,
> 
> I create a regulatory insert sheet for my company's products.  Many of
> the logos, such as the GS mark, C-Tick, or NOM apply only to certain
> countries.  Is that what an IVD symbol is?  Do you mean that the LVD
is
> only applicable in the US (other countries don't use this standard),
or
> that the LVD only approved for the US (you don't have approval in
other
> countries)?
> 
> - Susan
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > Subject: OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-
> > IVDequipment?
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the
IVD
> > symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
> > apply.
> >
> > The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
> > with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two
> order
> > numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the
> manual
> > etc.
> >
> > Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?
> >
> > My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above
the
> 
> > IVD logo have something like "applicable to the US market" but that
> idea
> > was discarded by regulatory affairs.
> >
> > I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline
> >
> > Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
> > Verner Andersen
> > Technical Writer
> >
> > Radiometer Medical ApS
> > Phone +45 3827 3612
> > Fax +45 3827 2727
> > verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
> > 
> >
> 
> This message (including any attachments) contains confidential
> and/or proprietary information intended only for the addressee.
> Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on
> the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may
> constitute a violation of law.  If you are not the intended
> recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to
> this e-mail, and delete the message from your system.  If you
> have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender
> immediately.


filename markers missing from ePP 9.2 versions

2008-10-01 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks for all your various help as I've tried to figure out why ePP 9.2
(I've tried various builds) with FM 7.2 unstructured does not pick up
over half my filename markers. Paul Mueller has been really helpful
supplying great documentation and suggesting ideas as well! While I'm
still trying a couple options, it looks like it comes down to a glitch
in ePP 9.2 that filename markers/topics that follow any topic with a
graphic in an anchored frame get skipped. Mike Stover figured out a cool
(but laborious) workaround which would be crazy for me to implement with
my hundreds of topically named pages, so I'm sadly regressing to ePP 9.1
for our upcoming product release.

However, I want to include two products' manuals in the help for this
upcoming product's help. Does anyone know, is there a way for ePP 9.1 to
read in variables from the documents? I wanted this capability in ePP
9.2; in ePP 9.1 I've found only a list box titled "Value:" for input of
each variable. Is there any way I can force ePP 9.1 to read the
variables from the files?

Thanks again - I've found Framers to be so helpful!!

Callie Bertsche



filename markers missing from ePP 9.2 versions

2008-10-01 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Callie,

FrameScript is great for automating workarounds that would be impractical to 
do by hand. Let me know what the exact workaround would be and I will let 
you know if it is feasible with FrameScript. Also, if this is the result of 
an ePublisher bug, I have contacts at Quadralay that may be able to address 
it.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

> Mike Stover figured out a cool
> (but laborious) workaround which would be crazy for me to implement with
> my hundreds of topically named pages... 



FW: ePP is ignoring filename markers

2008-10-01 Thread Callie Bertsche
Haha. Thanks, Mike. Rick, follow the thread below for the workaround.
Everyone on the list who doesn't care about this, sorry I'm adding a
grown-rather-lengthy thread. Perhaps the workaround will interest some
folks. Seems that each help generation software I've researched has a
rather steep learning curve of mastering bits of obscure logic. :)

Callie


-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:mike_sto...@sonic.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:06 AM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Sure. Tell him if he can automate that, I'll buy a couple copies of
FrameScript! (Actually, we have been meaning to for a long time.)

Mike

-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:c.berts...@tecplot.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:05 AM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Rick Quatro asked for your workaround in case it can be automated with
framescript. Would you be comfortable with my or your sharing it with
the list? If not, I totally understand. I'm a bit dubious that something
as extensive as this (with ePP involved) could be automated, but still.
:)
Cheers,
Callie 

-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:mike_sto...@sonic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:17 PM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

I took a couple stabs using various various trial versions of Flare and
went to a sales presentation, but I was just having a hard time figuring
it out. And their FrameMaker support wasn't that great. We used Frame
and WebWorks 7 for a long time and just switched to epub six months ago.
It wasn't cheap and it has been a bit of a pain. We keep bumping into
problems and constantly get told "it will be fixed in the next release."
My tech writer is at the WebWorks Roundup conference this week.
Hopefully he is picking up solutions to all of our woes.

Mike

-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:c.berts...@tecplot.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Thanks!
Whew, that is ugly. :)
I appreciate your itemization of such weirdness! I'll try the duplicate
filename markers first, with my fingers crossed...
We have our budget plan coming up and I'm thinking switching to MadCap
Flare. Have you tried that software at all? If you have, I'd be
interested in your opinion of it.

Cheers,
Callie

-Original Message-
From: Mike Stover [mailto:mike_sto...@sonic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:05 PM
To: Callie Bertsche
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Hi Callie,

Let's say my help file has three topics, A, B, and C in that order. If
there is an anchored frame in the section of my FrameMaker file that
contains the contents of topic B, then the filename marker for C would
be ignored. The markers in A and B would work, but not C.

At one point Quadralay was saying you could work around the bug by
putting two identical filename markers in each topic. That didn't work
for me, but you might try it.

I wound up adding passthrough code in my FrameMaker files that generated
the same HTML as the anchored frame. Then I hid the anchored frame using
conditional text. The ePub help file has a fairly good explanation of
how to do this, but here's the steps that I followed:

1. I created a new condition in FrameMaker called "Screenshot" and
applied it to the anchored. 
2. I created a second new condition in FrameMaker called
"PassThroughCode"
3. I generated my Help file with the Screenshot condition turned on.
Then I copied the HTML for each screenshot directly below the
corresponding anchored frame in FrameMaker.
4. I applied the PassThroughCode condition to the HTML that I added in
FrameMaker.
5. In the Output directory of my epub project, I made a copy of my
graphics folder and I would have copies of all the screenshots.
6. In epub I selected Project > Conditions and added the new conditions.
And I checked the PassThrough box for the PassThroughCode condition. I
set "Screenshot" to Hidden and "PassThroughCode" to Visible and generate
the help again.
7. Restore any missing graphics to your Output directory from the copy
of the graphics folder you created earlier.
8. If you are creating WebWorks Help, your are done. If you are creating
a chm file, run the project through HTMLHelp Workshop.

It's a pretty ugly solution, but it's all I could think of at the time. 
I just need to bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version of epub
and hope the problem is actually fixed.

Hope that helps,

Mike







-Original Message-
From: Callie Bertsche [mailto:c.berts...@tecplot.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:55 PM
To: Mike Stover
Subject: RE: ePP is ignoring filename markers

Thanks again for this message, Mike. I just thought of a question.
Do you mean that the graphic is the last thing in one topic, before the
heading of another topic that gets missed because of the anchored 

OT: Any of you documenting the same product as IVD and non-IVD equipment?

2008-10-01 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hi

I just found out that my product manual should be marked with the IVD
symbol for US customers. For the rest of the world the IVD doesn't
apply.

The current solution is to have the same manuals in two versison one
with and one without the IVD logo on the rear page. That means two order
numbers, additons to price lists, two brochures, two CDs with the manual
etc. 

Do any of you know of an operational way of handling this?

My first suggestions was to have 1 manual and in front of or above the
IVD logo have something like "applicable to the US market" but that idea
was discarded by regulatory affairs.

I looking forward to hearing any suggestions offline

Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
Verner Andersen
Technical Writer

Radiometer Medical ApS
Phone +45 3827 3612
Fax +45 3827 2727
verner.andersen at radiometer.dk




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Akandevej 21 
2700 Bronshoj 
Denmark 
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