Re: How to customize PKG branding - fonts, background colors, and logos?
Re: How to customize PKG branding - fonts, background colors, and logos?
- Subject: Re: How to customize PKG branding - fonts, background colors, and logos?
- From: Stephane Sudre via Installer-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:02:13 +0200
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:16 PM Manavendra Thakur via Installer-dev
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I just joined this mailing list - first post.
>
> I’m writing to ask: Is it possible to customize a PKG file to display a
> particular branding — fonts, colors, logos — when Installer.app opens the PKG
> file and displays it to users?
>
> Specifically:
>
> How to change the PKG file’s default icon (i.e. the ubiquitous yellow-orange
> “Open Box Pkg” icon) to, say, an app logo icon, to be shown as a preview in
> Finder when the user selects the PKG file?
Copy and paste the icon using the Info window of the Finder. Or use a
product such as CandyBar from Panic
(https://panic.com/blog/candybar-mountain-lion-and-beyond/) which will
let you set a full icns icon.
Since you will be using a custom icon for a raw pkg file, you will
need to distribute your pkg inside a zip archive or a disk image so
that the custom icon and extended attributes do not vanish during a
file transfer through http for instance.
> How to change the background color of the installer window, e.g. set it to
> all black or show a custom color, anything other than the default white?
You can use a small background image of the appropriate color and set
the image to fill the background. Just in case, using a custom
background image requires to use a .pkg distribution instead of a raw
.pkg package.
> How to change the font of all text displayed while the PKG file is open? This
> would include the title bar (“Install App Name”), list of steps in the left
> side (“Introduction”, “License”, etc), as well as the headings (“Welcome to
> the App Name Installer”, etc).
Short answer: you can not do that and you should not even think about it.
Long answer: you could only do that through a hack and it would
probably only work on some old macOS, OS X, and Mac OS X versions.
> Would writing an installer plugin make any of the above easier, or even
> possible?
See the previous short and long answers.
> The goal here is to customize the Mac PKG file and Installer.app interaction
> to look and feel (i.e. in terms of colors, fonts, and logos) similar to the
> same app’s Windows MSI look and feel. I.e., this is a branding question, to
> help ensure consistency (to the extent possible) of the app’s brand across
> platforms.
It's not a good idea to use custom fonts and texts instead of the ones
defined by Apple for an Apple platform, I don't believe anyone using a
Mac will complain if your installer looks like a Mac installer instead
of a Windows one.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
My 0.02 sesterce.
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