This is the final step of creating the installation.
Package location — specify the location of the installation package here. If you have already saved the project, this field contains the default value which is made of the project name and location.
The Compression combobox is displayed below. Use it to select the desired strength of the compression algorithm, which affects the size of the resulting archive. Note that the compression process will take a while, if you want to get the archive of the smallest size.
Create! button — click it after specifying the package location. If your project is not saved yet, you are asked to save it.
Then a progress window is displayed and, in a while, your package creation is completed. You now have a package ready for installation or CD burn!
You are recommended to test your newly created package by installing it to several machines with different operation systems, hardware configurations, etc. before starting distribution.
Save as updatable button — click to create an image of your package project. This image may be reused later to create update packages (minor version updates or hot-fixes of your product).
When you decide to create an update, just open the project saved as updatable and modify its contents. Packager helps you to track differences between the original and modified packages, so that the resulting update package includes only added and modified files. After the successful creation of an update package, you can save the modified project as updatable, thus building a chain of updates.
To start creating an update package, go to Step 1 and click the Update button.