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For installers media file types, you can configure the following properties:
- Volume name
When the user double-clicks on the DMG in the Finder, it is mounted and displayed in a new window.
Other Finder windows will show the volume name of the DMG in their side bars and a link to the mounted
DMG will be shown on the desktop. This name should be shorter than the installer name, so by default it
is set to the short name of the project.
- Installer name
The name of the installer in the DMG is what the user sees when the DMG is mounted. Note that this is not the
file name of the DMG, that name is is defined by the
general media file settings and possibly by the
overridden media file name for the current media file.
Since the installer is an application bundle, the name of the installer is localizable, just like the names of
launchers and installer applications.
To use the localization feature, specify an i18n variable for the installer file name.
The actual file name is evaluated in the context of the principal language, and for each additional language
a localized version is written to the corresponding localization files in the installer application bundle.
If the locale of the user matches one of the additional languages, that name will be displayed in the Finder
instead of the real file name.
- Compression
While DMGs for archive media file types are compressed by default, most files that are part of the installer
are already compressed and the benefit of an additional compression of the entire DMG is small. On the flip-side,
a compressed DMG takes longer to open. That is why DMGs for installer media file types are not compressed
by default. If you add large uncompressed files on the
custom code and resources step, you
may want to enable compression.
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