So what's new with Adobe RoboHelp 8?
• Adobe AIR – now allows you to publish your help system as an Adobe AIR application with support for adding tabs, favorites, new templates, and auto generated mini table of contents. This provides you with many new ways for users to find information as well as add and share comments in a system that is always up to date. Authors can generate this AIR application and package it for easy deployment.
• Powerful Search Engine – gives you enhanced search results with ranking, wildcard, metadata, and multiple language results. Search results are ranked by relevance with the initial text of the topic for content, search highlighting, a synonym editor and a keyword search that can be defined to help the user find what they are looking for. Another feature is that Adobe PDF's and Microsoft Office documents can be searched as well.
• Enhanced Printed Document options – give you the ability to map your online output styles to the printed versions in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF. You have the ability to use MS Word Templates or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Breadcrumbs and mini TOC – provide the ability to customize the home page name, separators, and add labels. Now breadcrumbs can appear in topics that are not in the main table-of-contents (TOC). A mini TOC can be added with placeholders on a topic basis or with master pages.
• Improved Glossary – which are edited are automatically updated in glossary hotspot links. This makes it even easier to make sure that your users have all the needed information at their fingertips.
• Merged Help implementation – lets RoboHelp authors to break up content into logical subsets as individual projects. Then at runtime, the projects are automatically merged into a single Contents/Index/Search that is much more seamless to the user. It gives you a visually intuitive way to merge child projects which become part of a master TOC.
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Now that I read the requirements reiterated from your article, does having only 512 mb of ram really make a big difference? My computer has 512MB and it runs quite slow with TCS running.