macOS DMG: branded window and hdiutil create, so the app passes codesign --strict (#169)

* macOS: build the DMG with hdiutil create so the app passes codesign --strict

hdiutil makehybrid -hfs put a com.apple.FinderInfo on every file in the
image, so the signed app inside the DMG (and any ditto copy of it) failed
codesign --verify --deep --strict. That is why verify.sh had dropped
--strict. Build the image with hdiutil create -srcfolder (retried, since
create can hit "Resource busy" on CI), clear build-time xattrs before
signing, and make verify.sh check the app in the finished DMG and a ditto
copy of it with --strict again.

Ported from storytold/pdfcraft#823 and storytold/lightcraft#959.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* macOS DMG: branded window background and icon layout

The launcher's DMG opened as a plain Finder window, unlike every other
Craft app. Add packaging/macos/dmg/ the same way WordCraft and PhotoCraft
did: a background (the ArtCraft mark whole on its blue, title, Ink and
Paper), a .DS_Store with the window size and icon positions, and the
generate.py that writes both reproducibly. The volume is now named
"ArtCraft Launcher" without the version, which the background alias needs;
the DMG file name keeps the version.

Fixes #20

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Fabio Lussi <198260595+itrycodinganditsbad@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Path | Title | Author | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `assets/app-icon/` (all files) | ArtCraft Launcher app icon: the ArtCraft "A" mark in blue (getartcraft.com's favicon) | ArtCraft Team | Rendered unmodified from `docs/brand/artcraft-mark.svg` by `packaging/icons.sh`, see [`assets/app-icon/README.md`](assets/app-icon/README.md) | **Not open source; not MIT or Apache-2.0.** ArtCraft trademark, [`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`](docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt) |
| `packaging/macos/dmg/` (all files) | macOS DMG window background and layout | ArtCraft Launcher contributors, with the ArtCraft mark | Original work, see [`packaging/macos/dmg/README.md`](packaging/macos/dmg/README.md); the mark is `docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.svg`, linked from `background.svg` and rendered unmodified into `background.tiff` | MIT OR Apache-2.0, like the code; the ArtCraft mark in it stays an ArtCraft trademark ([`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`](docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt)). The TIFF carries LittleCMS's built-in sRGB profile ("No copyright, use freely") |
| `assets/social/linkedin.svg` | LinkedIn logo, linking to ArtCraft's company page | Fonticons, Inc. ([Font Awesome Free](https://fontawesome.com) 6.7.2) | Font Awesome Free `svgs/brands/linkedin.svg`; white fill and a square view box, see [`assets/social/README.md`](assets/social/README.md) | CC BY 4.0. The logo is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. |
| `assets/social/x.svg`, `youtube.svg`, `tiktok.svg`, `instagram.svg` | X, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram logos, linking to ArtCraft's accounts | [Simple Icons](https://simpleicons.org/) contributors | Simple Icons, `fill` set to white for tinting; see [`assets/social/README.md`](assets/social/README.md) | CC0 1.0. The logos are trademarks of X Corp., Google LLC, TikTok / ByteDance and Meta Platforms, Inc. |
| `docs/screenshots/artcraft-launcher-grid.png`, `artcraft-launcher-table.png` | Screenshots of ArtCraft Launcher (macOS: grid view in dark theme, table view in light theme), used in the README | ArtCraft Launcher contributors | Captured from the app | MIT OR Apache-2.0 for the screenshot itself; the ArtCraft logo in it stays an ArtCraft trademark ([`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`](docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt)) and the app icons in it keep their own licenses (above) |

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# macOS DMG window
What Finder shows when the DMG opens: a 660 × 400 pt background with the app icon and the
`Applications` link side by side, laid out like the other Craft apps' DMGs. `package.sh` copies
these files into the image; nothing here is generated at build time, so the DMG builds with a plain
`hdiutil create -srcfolder` (no Finder scripting on CI, nothing extra installed in the signing job).
| File | What |
|---|---|
| `background.svg` | Source of the background: the ArtCraft mark in black (`docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.svg`, linked, not copied) whole on the mark's blue (`#4e7bfb`), Ink and Paper. The mark is a trademark: it stays exactly as supplied, never cropped or recoloured (`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`), unlike the cropped icons on the other apps' DMGs. Its text (Inter, Geist Mono from `assets/fonts`) is outlined, so rendering it needs no fonts. No paper grain: noise doesn't compress, and this keeps `background.tiff` small. |
| `background.tiff` | The background at 1x (660 × 400 px, 72 dpi) and 2x (1320 × 800 px, 144 dpi) in one HiDPI TIFF (16-colour palette, Deflate, sRGB). Goes to `.background/background.tiff`. |
| `dmg-layout.DS_Store` | Finder's view settings for the volume: window size, icon size 128, ArtCraft Launcher.app at (326, 205), `Applications` at (574, 205), and the background. Goes to `.DS_Store` in the image; named so it isn't mistaken for (or ignored like) a Finder-generated `.DS_Store`. |
| `generate.py` | Writes `background.tiff` and `dmg-layout.DS_Store` from the SVG and the layout above. |
## The volume name has no version
The mounted volume is called `ArtCraft Launcher`, not `ArtCraft Launcher <version>`. The layout
points at the background through an alias that includes the volume name, and Finder resolves it by
that name: with a versioned name the window keeps its size and icon positions but shows no
background. The DMG file name (`artcraft-launcher-<version>-macos-<arch>.dmg`) still carries the
version.
## Rules
- **Finder draws the icon labels in black in light and dark mode** when a window has a background,
so the area under both icons stays light (Paper).
- **Nothing goes inside the icon boxes:** artwork keeps 10 pt clear of each 128 pt icon box and of
the label strip under it.
## Regenerate
Edit `background.svg` (or the layout constants in `generate.py`), then run, on any OS:
```sh
pip install 'pillow>=12' ds_store==1.3.3 mac_alias==2.2.3
python3 packaging/macos/dmg/generate.py # needs resvg on PATH
```
Both outputs are byte-for-byte reproducible and carry nothing from the machine that ran it: the
SVG renders without any fonts, and `dmg-layout.DS_Store` is written from scratch, its background
alias holding only the volume name and `/.background/background.tiff`. If you add text to the SVG,
outline it (`usvg --skip-system-fonts --use-font-file assets/fonts/Inter-Variable.ttf
--use-font-file assets/fonts/GeistMono-Variable.ttf` converts text to paths). The window is
660 × 432 with Finder's 32 pt title bar; the content area is 660 × 400.
This follows the other Craft apps' `packaging/macos/dmg/` (storytold/wordcraft#21,
storytold/photocraft#1201, first in storytold/vectorcraft#493).

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Regenerate background.tiff and dmg-layout.DS_Store for the macOS DMG window (see README.md here).
Needs resvg on PATH and:
pip install 'pillow>=12' ds_store==1.3.3 mac_alias==2.2.3
Runs on any OS, no Mac needed. Both outputs come from this script alone, so they carry nothing
from the machine that made them: no local paths, user or disk names, dates or volume UUIDs.
python3 packaging/macos/dmg/generate.py
"""
import datetime
import os
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
from ds_store import DSStore
from mac_alias import Alias, TargetInfo, VolumeInfo
from PIL import Image, ImageCms
HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
# Keep in sync with package.sh (volume name) and README.md (layout).
VOLUME = "ArtCraft Launcher"
WIDTH, HEIGHT = 660, 400 # window content, pt; the background's 1x size
TITLE_BAR = 32
ICON_SIZE = 128
PALETTE = 16 # colours in background.tiff
ICONS = {"ArtCraft Launcher.app": (326, 205), "Applications": (574, 205)}
# A fixed date for the alias and the colour profile. Finder never matches it against the image
# (each build is a new volume): it finds the background by volume name and path.
FIXED_DATE = datetime.datetime(2026, 10, 11, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
def render(svg, width, out):
# The SVG's text is already outlined and no fonts are loaded, so every machine draws the
# same pixels.
subprocess.run(
["resvg", "--skip-system-fonts", "-w", str(width), svg, out],
check=True,
)
with Image.open(out) as im:
return im.convert("RGB")
def quantize(im):
# No dithering: dither noise compresses badly and the artwork has flat fills.
return im.quantize(PALETTE, method=Image.Quantize.FASTOCTREE, dither=Image.Dither.NONE)
def srgb_profile():
# LittleCMS's built-in sRGB ("No copyright, use freely"), with its creation date fixed.
icc = bytearray(ImageCms.ImageCmsProfile(ImageCms.createProfile("sRGB")).tobytes())
d = FIXED_DATE
icc[24:36] = b"".join(v.to_bytes(2, "big") for v in (d.year, d.month, d.day, 0, 0, 0))
if icc[84:100] != bytes(16):
sys.exit("error: the sRGB profile has an ID; recompute it after fixing the date")
return bytes(icc)
def write_tiff(svg, out):
"""1x (72 dpi) and 2x (144 dpi) in one TIFF, as `tiffutil -cathidpicheck` writes them."""
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
one, two = (
quantize(render(svg, WIDTH * s, os.path.join(tmp, f"{s}x.png"))) for s in (1, 2)
)
two.encoderinfo = {"dpi": (144, 144)} # the rest as the first page
# Opaque 16-colour palette, Deflate: the artwork is three inks plus antialiasing, and a palette
# keeps the file under ~100 KB (repository assets must stay small). As PhotoCraft's.
one.save(
out,
"TIFF",
save_all=True,
append_images=[two],
compression="tiff_adobe_deflate", # brand-ok: Pillow's name for TIFF compression 8 (Deflate)
dpi=(72, 72),
icc_profile=srgb_profile(),
)
with Image.open(out) as im:
im.seek(1)
if im.info.get("dpi") != (144, 144):
sys.exit("error: the 2x page isn't 144 dpi (needs Pillow 12 or later)")
strips = []
for page in (0, 1):
im.seek(page)
strips += zip(im.tag_v2[273], im.tag_v2[279]) # StripOffsets, StripByteCounts
# TIFF keeps directories and tag data on even offsets. When a strip ends on an odd one, libtiff
# leaves the padding byte after it uninitialised, so the file changed from run to run with
# identical pixels. Zero it: nothing refers to that byte.
starts = {o for o, _ in strips}
with open(out, "r+b") as f:
for o, n in strips:
if (o + n) % 2 and o + n not in starts:
f.seek(o + n)
f.write(bytes(1))
def background_alias():
# What Finder stores for /.background/background.tiff on the volume, minus anything about the
# machine (dmgbuild writes the same kind of alias from a mounted image). Disk type 5 (ejectable),
# the volume flags and the folder/file ids (25, 26) are what Finder wrote on a test image; the ids
# are only hints, as the volume's creation date.
volume = VolumeInfo(VOLUME, FIXED_DATE, b"H+", 5, 0x0D02, b"\0\0")
volume.posix_path = f"/Volumes/{VOLUME}"
target = TargetInfo(0, "background.tiff", 25, 26, FIXED_DATE, b"\0\0\0\0", b"\0\0\0\0")
target.folder_name = ".background"
target.cnid_path = [25]
target.carbon_path = f"{VOLUME}:.background:\0background.tiff"
target.posix_path = "/.background/background.tiff"
return Alias(volume=volume, target=target).to_bytes()
def write_ds_store(out):
if os.path.exists(out):
os.remove(out)
with DSStore.open(out, "w+") as d:
d["."]["bwsp"] = {
"ShowStatusBar": False,
"ShowToolbar": False,
"ShowTabView": False,
"ContainerShowSidebar": False,
"ShowSidebar": False,
"WindowBounds": f"{{{{200, 528}}, {{{WIDTH}, {HEIGHT + TITLE_BAR}}}}}",
}
d["."]["icvp"] = {
"viewOptionsVersion": 1,
"backgroundType": 2,
"backgroundImageAlias": background_alias(),
"backgroundColorRed": 1.0,
"backgroundColorGreen": 1.0,
"backgroundColorBlue": 1.0,
"gridOffsetX": 0.0,
"gridOffsetY": 0.0,
"gridSpacing": 100.0,
"arrangeBy": "none",
"showIconPreview": True,
"showItemInfo": False,
"labelOnBottom": True,
"textSize": 16.0,
"iconSize": float(ICON_SIZE),
}
d["."]["vSrn"] = ("long", 1)
for name, pos in ICONS.items():
d[name]["Iloc"] = pos
def main():
if not shutil.which("resvg"):
sys.exit("error: resvg not found (brew install resvg / cargo install resvg --locked)")
write_tiff(os.path.join(HERE, "background.svg"), os.path.join(HERE, "background.tiff"))
write_ds_store(os.path.join(HERE, "dmg-layout.DS_Store"))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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fi
printf 'APPL????' >"$APP/Contents/PkgInfo"
# Drop extended attributes picked up during the build (quarantine, FinderInfo) before signing:
# `codesign --verify --strict` rejects them, and nothing after signing may touch the bundle.
xattr -cr "$APP"
# Sign inside-out: nested code first, then the bundle itself (no --deep on the final signature).
# Today the only nested code is the main executable; frameworks/helpers would be signed here too.
sign --options runtime --entitlements "$HERE/entitlements.plist" "$APP/Contents/MacOS/$APP_NAME"
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mkdir -p "$STAGE"
ditto "$APP" "$STAGE/$APP_NAME.app"
ln -s /Applications "$STAGE/Applications"
rm -f "$DMG" "$WORK/raw.dmg"
# makehybrid + convert builds the image without attaching a device, unlike `create -srcfolder`,
# which is flaky on CI runners ("Resource busy") and hangs in sandboxed sessions.
hdiutil makehybrid -hfs -hfs-volume-name "$APP_NAME $VERSION" -hfs-openfolder "$STAGE" -o "$WORK/raw.dmg" "$STAGE"
hdiutil convert "$WORK/raw.dmg" -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=9 -o "$DMG"
rm -f "$WORK/raw.dmg"
# Finder window layout: background, icon size and positions (packaging/macos/dmg/README.md).
mkdir -p "$STAGE/.background"
cp "$HERE/dmg/background.tiff" "$STAGE/.background/background.tiff"
cp "$HERE/dmg/dmg-layout.DS_Store" "$STAGE/.DS_Store"
rm -f "$DMG"
# `hdiutil create -srcfolder` writes the files as they are. `makehybrid -hfs` gave every file a
# com.apple.FinderInfo, which `codesign --verify --strict` rejects as "Finder information, or
# similar detritus" on the app in the image and on a copy installed from it. `create` attaches a
# device while it copies, which fails now and then on CI runners ("Resource busy"), so it gets a
# few tries. verify.sh checks the app inside the finished image with --strict. The volume name has
# no version: .DS_Store finds the background through an alias that includes it.
# Usage: hdiutil_retry <what> <hdiutil args…>; tries five times with growing pauses.
hdiutil_retry() {
local what="$1" attempt
shift
for attempt in 1 2 3 4 5; do
if hdiutil "$@"; then
return 0
fi
[ "$attempt" = 5 ] && { echo "hdiutil $what failed 5 times" >&2; return 1; }
warn "hdiutil $what failed (attempt $attempt of 5); retrying in $((attempt * 10))s"
sleep $((attempt * 10))
done
}
hdiutil_retry create create -srcfolder "$STAGE" -volname "$APP_NAME" -fs HFS+ -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=9 -ov "$DMG"
sign "$DMG"
codesign --verify --strict --verbose=2 "$DMG"
if [ "$NOTARIZE" = 1 ]; then

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exit 1
fi
# Integrity first: this must hold even for ad-hoc builds. Not --strict here: files read back from
# the DMG's HFS volume (hdiutil makehybrid) report a com.apple.FinderInfo attribute, which strict
# mode calls "detritus". package.sh already ran the strict check on the bundle before imaging it.
codesign --verify --deep --verbose=2 "$APP"
# Integrity first: this must hold even for ad-hoc builds, and with --strict, on the app in the
# image and on a copy installed from it with ditto. A valid DMG signature says nothing about the
# bundle inside: the old makehybrid image gave every file a com.apple.FinderInfo, which strict
# mode rejects as "detritus".
codesign --verify --strict --deep --verbose=2 "$APP"
ditto "$APP" "$WORK/copy/$APP_NAME.app"
codesign --verify --strict --deep --verbose=2 "$WORK/copy/$APP_NAME.app"
details="$(codesign -d --verbose=2 "$APP" 2>&1)"
printf '%s\n' "$details" | grep -E '^(Identifier|Format|CodeDirectory|Authority|Timestamp|TeamIdentifier)[= ]' || true