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: Greg Neagle via Installer-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:37:35 -0700
I agree with Stephane 100% here.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 2:02 PM Stephane Sudre via Installer-dev <
email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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