We want to use packagemaker to install a plugin into
Photoshop. A plugin consists of one or two binaries, some help files and some
settings files. Photoshop requires that these files be in very specific places
so it can find and load them.
If the user has more than one version of Photoshop
installed, we allow them to choose which version to install into.
It is very problematic to allow the user to simply choose
the proper folder in the proper version of Photoshop via a finder panel. We
need to find Photoshop and the proper directory for them, and use that folder
as the installation destination. The tech support would be nightmarish if we
didn’t, believe me.
I have downloaded and examined the Sample for an installer
plugin. In the readme, it says to look into the contents of the pkg file and
create a folder called ‘plugins’. Unfortunately, with packagemaker
3.0.2, the generated pkg file does not appear to be a bundle.
Can you still use installer plugins with the newer versions
of packagemaker? If so, how?
We used to do this with Vise X from MindVision. Don’t
get me started on that product. Suffice it to say, we *really* want to
go to packagemaker!