Using dropdmg command-line from a script, we’ve recently noticed that some disk images open a window that is larger than the background image in our layout. It seems to be intermittent (although there are several images produced in different parts of our script).
When we see the problem (on several Macs that have downloaded the .dmg), the top-left offset in the layout is also not respected. We recently started using a 144 ppi PNG for the image (for Retina), so this could be related.
We’ve seen this in DropDMG 3.2.3 and 3.2.4. Our build server and target Macs are running 10.9.2.
Here’s the script log section:
+ unzip -q -o /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/QuickBooks_0.9.QBOWeb.Release.24-signed.zip
+ dropdmg --format=bzip2 --custom-icon --sanitize-for-servers --append-version-number --layout-folder=/Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/qbcloud_mac/tools/dmg/S1 /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks.app
/Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks_0.9.dmg
++ ls /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks_0.9.dmg
+ FULL_DMG_NAME=/Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks_0.9.dmg
++ basename /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks_0.9.dmg
+ DMG_NAME=QuickBooks_0.9.dmg
+ cp /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/promote/signed/QuickBooks_0.9.dmg /Users/intuitadmin/build/workspace/CI-QBCS-Mac-SV1Beta/archive/QuickBooks_0.9.QBOWeb.Release.24-signed.dmg
Any suggestions? Try a different image format? (see attached)