Anyone running RH on Mac with VMWare Fusion?

[Guest]

Seriously disgruntled with Microsoft after a weekend troubleshooting issus on my pc and getting nowhere. I'm at a point where I either have to buy a new PC running Vista, or make the leap to Mac. Have talked to a couple of friends who prefer VMFusion to BootCamp or Parallels, but none of them are technical writers. I use RoboHelp extensively (will likely be upgrading to RH8 and generating AIR Help for a new, huge project), and also use the rest of the Tech Comm Suite quite a bit. Have several customers who I still have to create manuals for in Word (blah)too. Appreciate any input as this is a major (and expensive) decision!

Thanks,
Katie

Katie Carver
Senior Technical Writer
Docs-to-You, LLC

[Peter Grainge]

Adobe's site indicates that RH is only available for the Windows platform.

[Guest]

Yeah, I noticed that. However, I know there are others currently running RH on Mac (founds some posts from November). A year ago, I would've been the last person to ever consider making the leap to Mac. But after talking to several people who insist that the kind of setup I'm considering is the best of both worlds, I'm really giving it some thought. Adobe's "official" support isn't an issue for me as I've never called them, and worst case scenario, I will still have my 1-year-old PC running XP to fall back on once I reformat the hard drive and start fresh with it.

Katie

[Guest]

Just thought I'd update in case anyone else lands on this with a search:

I've been using the Adobe Tech Comm. Suite 2 on my MacBook Pro with VMWare Fusion - Windows XP for 9+ months with no issues (knock on wood...). I'm primarily using RoboHelp to generate AIRHelp, but also Acrobat, FrameMaker, and Captivate. Since this is not supported, I do frequent backups and maintain my PC should I ever have to go back to using it for my Adobe apps. So far, though, this really is the "best of both worlds" set up!

Katie

[Guest]

Wow - good to know.  I only use my PC for RoboHelp - so it's something to try!

patti