Association of Shareware Professionals

The World's #1 Trade Organization for Independent Software Developers and Vendors

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. More...

Webmaster Resources
You are a download site webmaster wishing to implement PAD support on your web site. More...

Specification Details
You are interested in the technical definition of PAD. More...

PAD News

PADGen 3.0.1.37 (Apr 11, 2008)
PAD Signing Tools 3.0.1.8 (Apr 11, 2008)
Affiliates Extension updated (Oct 17, 2007)
PAD Specification 3.01 introducing PAD Signing (Jan 9, 2007)
PAD SDK 1.5 (Jan 9, 2007)

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