site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com I have recently spent several days testing with the DMG Canvas tool from Araelium group. http://www.araelium.com/dmgcanvas/ Version 2.0 released last month does build backward compatible disk images from Snow Leopard and the background does show up for me. There's a Preferences menu in the DMG Canvas drop down from the menu bar, and you have to check the box to enable backward compatibility. (I am only targeting Leopard and Snow Leopard, I haven't checked Tiger.) I have noted a few things when building: * Leopard and Snow Leopard wrap text at different widths. I can't seem to get around this. Because my background has a very "inside-the-box" feel, I've had to mess with the font size to get it to fit on both platforms. * When I build for backward compatibility using Snow Leopard, DMG Canvas changes the way the file name text appears. Instead of having text wrap, it is only allowed to be a fixed size which looks just a little wider than the icon itself. So my Applications alias can show up as "App...ns". To get around this, I made the icons bigger, and the text smaller. It still doesn't look as good, and I am still getting around to trying the other suggested packaging tools. So far, I only really got to try out the FreeDMG alternative suggested from kelleycomputing.net. I didn't like this one, I didn't see a way to add a background image. I started trying the iDMG tool from nscoding.co.uk, but I was slightly confused when it came up and so I have only gotten partway through reading the manual. Can you point out any of the web discussions you referenced? I would like to see those too, because I think you and I are trying to do similar things. My software is also built on Snow Leopard only because some of our developers only have Snow Leopard. Was DMG Canvas one of the commercial disk image builders you tried? Which ones have you tried that have not worked? I'm planning to try the following if time allows: * FileStorm (haven't tried yet) * DMG Packager ( www.skoobysoft.com/utilities/dmgp.html - haven't tried yet ) * FreeDMG ( www.kelleycomputing.net/freedmg - I tried this one, it was just drag and drop your folder and it packaged it. Doesn't look like it does much in the way of allowing configurable presentation of the disk image folder ) * iDMG ( www.nscoding.co.uk - I downloaded this, but I didn't get through reading the manual yet. )