RE: How to localize distribution package's requirements message

11 Sep 2009

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Thanks for pointing out the potential problem with .psd format backgrounds.
I will change to a tiff.

The fact that background.psd is in each of the localized project resource
directories is down to PackageMaker. When you do Edit Interface, you have to
re-specify the background file with each localization (as far as I can see)
so it leads to this duplication.

Since my original post I have switched to authoring with Iceberg, which does
allow you to have a single non-localized background image, so this problem
is fixed.

Thanks,

Ben.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Coderre [mailto:bc@apple.com]
Sent: Thu 10 September 2009 17:35
To: Ben Staveley-Taylor
Cc: Iceberg-Dev; installer-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: How to localize distribution package's requirements message

On Sep 9, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Ben Staveley-Taylor wrote:
...
MyInstaller.mpkg
   Contents
       distribution.dist
       Packages
               MyPackage.pkg
       Resources
               en.lproj
                       background.psd
                       Localizable.strings
               fr.lproj
                       background.psd
                       Localizable.strings
               (... etc for other languages)
Just wanted to point out that:
1) psd pictures are not compatible with older OS versions. Stephane
would know better than I, but Apple likes to use compressed tiff files
with transparency.

2) Resources which are not localized (such as background pictures) can
go in the Resources folder, not the localized folder. This will save
some download size.

For instance, like this:
...
MyInstaller.mpkg
   Contents
       distribution.dist
       Packages
               MyPackage.pkg
       Resources
      background.tif
               en.lproj
                       Localizable.strings
               fr.lproj
                       Localizable.strings
               (... etc for other languages)
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