Re: Background graphics for DMGs (again)
Re: Background graphics for DMGs (again)
- Subject: Re: Background graphics for DMGs (again)
- From: Xochitl Lunde <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:09:11 -0600
> Background for Disk Images are broken, kaput, par terre in Snow
> Leopard. As soon as you set a background picture on a disk image in
> Snow Leopard, the nightmare begins. The background picture will not
> show up on Mac OS X 10.5 most of the time. Sometimes even setting
it
> later on 10.5 will change nothing.
>
> And if you set your background picture on 10.5 or earlier, you will
> need to take into account a different margin at the bottom of the
> disk image.
>
> Disk Images are nice but they suffer from a lot of issues when it
> comes to background pictures, icon alignment and icon view mode. On
> some occasions, when working on disk images, stay far away from the
> walls or you could hurt yourself.
>
They are broken, but DMG Canvas gets pretty close
to fixing it at least for backward compatibility to 10.5. There's
a preference to enable Leopard compatibility, and it does work!
You're right about the margin at the bottom. I
am lucky, because the shape of my background image doesn't look too bad
with some extra whitespace at the bottom. So I have used the "Fit
to image" button on DMG Canvas, and then I add about 40 pixels to
the height of the canvas. The entire image shows up on both platforms,
but one has more whitespace at the bottom than the other. I suggest
you make your artwork such that it will look OK whether the bottom of it
lines up prefectly or not. If I had the Adium background picture
with the grass, I would make sure to have extra grass at the bottom to
compensate for the difference. _______________________________________________
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