I, also, have downloaded the trial RH7 at home, on a similar
machine. I've opened, edited, and generated WebHelp from an-X5.0.2
project (6.6 MB, 44 GIFs, 23 topics), with absolutely no problems
to report. I have not, however, generated a Word output; I'll give
that a shot tonight.
I'm pleased to say that it has worked extremely well so far.
A plus is that RH at home is not under constant attack from
Kaspersky anti-virus, as it is at work, so I can actually close RH
immediately after generating a project without receiving Microsoft
warnings of impending doom!
Since we're a 7-writer group working on a 40-project merged
WebHelp system, and I don't trust the only source control app
supported by IT, I think taking advantage of snippets and variables
might require some regularly scheduled diffs of all projects'
rhvariable.apj and *.hts files, but it might be worth it.
Actually, snippets might be a more user-friendly way of
presenting "external" info instead of our current use of hyperlinks
across projects (something with a different background, and perhaps
an intro like:
From the DB Admin "
Installing the DB Upgrade": topic:
, where the topic name would still be available as a hyperlink,
if the user really wanted more info. Hmmm....
Although I found the pods and MDI a little disconcerting at
first, I think I'll learn to love them. As to the TrueCode, I'm
more impressed by the compression of table code (now 4-6 values per
line instead of just 1) than I am with the jettisoning of kadov
(which was never an issue with me).
Good luck,
Leon