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Thanks Bill and Christopher for the quick
responses. I'll have them start with the suggested size, test the
"growability", and recommend a small graphic in the lower left side. How
does that sound?
--Albert
From: Bill Coderre [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:11 PM
To: Stanfield,
Albert R
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re:
Installer background - custom size
Note that the size can be bigger OR smaller than the default size, and that
there are flags in the distribution and the Info.plist that control where the
image is displayed and whether it's stretched to fit. Be sure to test out with
10.3 and 10.4 to see what actually happens. It can be surprising.
In iLife 06, the image is actually quite tall, so when the installer window
"grows" (if you have a lot of drives, or if you resize the window manually),
more of the graphic is revealed. The artist and I had a chuckle over that.
I usually start with a white background and brightly colored objects, then
set the alpha (transparency) of the non-white things to 30% or so. That usually
looks OK. Then I save to a file called "background.tif" that has an alpha
channel, no colorsync, LZW compression, and Mac byte order.
The compression means that even though the file is TIFF, it's usually under
200K, so there's not much concern about disk space.
On Feb 22, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Christopher Ryan wrote:
The standard size is 620x440.
You would be best to avoid incorporating any of the look and feel of the
Installer app into the background as it could change in the future (ie.
Don't include Aqua stripes, don't place image data around the Continue, Go
Back button, as those can move).
It would also be best to ensure the image looks good when the Installer
window is resizable (when using a 10.4 and later package). PackageMaker
should allow you to try out the image and image attributes.
Chris
Hello,
What should be the size of a custom
background? Anything to watch out for when using custom
backgrounds?
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