DMG Designs
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| Size: | 3.0 MB |
| Last Update: | 2008-02-04 22:30:21 |
| Version: | 1.1.5 (DMG Designs Latest Version) |
| OS Support: | Mac OS X/Mac Universal Binary |
| License/Program Type: | Shareware; $16.00 |
| Publisher: | Kingdom Era, LLC |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
DMG Designs is an application that creates or converts disk
images.
This application is similar to DMG Packager, another tool that can
give to your distribution packages the professional look. It can do
the same tasks as DMG Packager, and it can do some things that are
unsupported by this one: it can use a custom icon for the mounted
volumes, and it has built in a disk convertor. Unlike DMG Packager,
DMG Designs also supports the encryption of the disk images and the
image conversion.
On the other hand, DMG Packager supports archive creation, a
feature that you won't find in DMG Designs. Most of the archive
formats supported by DMG Packager, are also supported by a free
tool, CleanArchiver. CleanArchiver also supports the creation of
DMG images, but it has just a few features. Those features are
enough for regular users though.
Since I started talking about alternatives, and programs that can
do almost the same thing, there is another free alternative to this
product, CreaDMG. This one is also appropriate for smaller
projects.
The interface of this product has an interesting design. Is both
eye candy and ergonomic at the same time. There is a side menu that
lets you pick your desired operation. Unlike other applications,
this menu has graphical buttons. They don't have any text on them,
but they look pretty intuitive.
The creation engine supports various customization options of your
output disk image. The most interesting part is the possibility to
customize very well the layout of the window that would appear in
Finder when you mount the image.
The supported image types are Read+Write or Sparse. You can't find
in this application the support for read-only disk images. You can
pick a file system that can be either HFS, HFS+, HFS+J, or UFS.
The conversion engine supports some features that in a weird way
are not available to the creation engine. You can find here new
features such as the type of the compression, the support for the
segmentation of the resulted image, the possibility to build
Internet Enabled images, and the support for adding a SLA (Software
License Agreement). I still wonder why these features aren't
available directly from the creation engine.
The last button from the side menu gives you access to the log of
the program. The log window can give you precious information such
as the error reporting in case of failure, or it can give you
information such as the MD5 hash of the resulted image. If you lose
this hash, you can calculate it again with a dedicated tool,
MD5.
Pluses: it gives you various features that can customize the
layout of your distribution package, it reunites some useful tools
that usually are available in multiple equivalent applications, it
has a built in conversion engine. Another good thing is the support
for dual core processing. This is one of the few applications that
uses the whole processing power of your CPU.
Drawbacks / flaws: some features that are available in the
conversion engine are not available into the creation engine. This
makes the applications a little inconsistent. The support for
splitting the disk image in multiple volumes is implemented but I
couldn't make not even a single split image with this program. No
matter if there is a large file into the image, or a lot of small
files, it does the same thing: it splits the output image in many
small volumes. When it reaches the number of 250 volumes, the
process fails with the error: "convert failed - Too many open
files". The side menu is useful, but even though the icons are
quite intuitive, the applications doesn't give you any option to
enable some text labels for these buttons.
In conclusion: the inconsistency of the interface can make
you lose useful time if you would like to include into your image
some elements that are available only in the conversion mode. I
didn't see any beta sign near this application, so there's no
excuse for the dumb behavior when trying to split an image. Chop
DMG can do a better job in splitting images into multiple
volumes.
version reviewed: 1.1.1
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