PAD - Provided by the Association of Software Professionals

PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings. PAD saves time for both shareware authors and webmasters.

What is PAD?

PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps
authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online
sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will
allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings.
PAD saves time for both authors and webmasters. For more, see the
PAD FAQ.

Resources

Author Resources
You are a shareware author wishing to create, edit, validate and upload PAD files.
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Webmaster Resources
You are a download site webmaster wishing to implement PAD support on your
web site.
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Specification Resources
You are interested in the technical definition of PAD.
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PAD News

PADGen 3.1.1.47 follows 301 redirects (June 12, 2010)
PAD Spec 3.11 and PADGen 3.1.1.46 with larger domain name fields (June 7, 2010)
PADGen 3.1.1.45 (May 25, 2010)
PAD Spec 3.10 revamped Program_OS_Support and minor Download_URL additions (Jun, 2009 posted Oct. 14, 2009)
PADGen 3.0.1.38 (Aug 04, 2008)
PAD Signing Tools 3.0.1.8 (Apr 11, 2008)