Hi Sebastiaan, Windows Installer only supports BMP and JPG, and I remember the built- in reszing method looks horrible too. I also remember JPEGs are shown badly sometimes (like being compressed to 10% or so), so BMP is still the best option.
Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. http://www.instyler.com On 24.08.2009, at 14:56, Sebastiaan Deckers wrote: > Hi all, > While adding custom graphics using the WixUIBannerBmp and > WixUIDialogBmp > WixVariable's I noticed that this adds a lot of overhead to the MSI > package. > Some testing shows that the bitmaps are not compressed. I also found > that > both BMP and JPEG formats are supported, but not GIF or PNG. I did > not try > any other formats. > > - Is there any reason why we should not use JPEG? > - Why does WiX default to BMP files? > - Which other file types are supported? > > Thanks > > Sebastiaan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
