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PAD Links and 3rd Party Tools

Notice: The links below reference articles, tools and services offered by 3rd party vendors. The ASP does not verify these for PAD Specification compliance and therefore does not explicitly recommend any of them.

Articles:

• PAD Usage Guidelines (by SharewarePromotions)
• Dynamic PAD for Site Tracking (by D. Reinhardt, ASPects 06/2005 p. 6) ASP MEMBERS ONLY!

Free Tools:

• DynamicPAD (PHP Scripts for Dynamic PAD Generation)
• PAD-Publisher (Windows Submission Utility)
• Apimac PAD Editor (Mac OS X PAD Editor)
• Trialware Submit (Submission Utility - TPA membership required for full use.)
• PAD Maker (Mac OS X PAD Editor)
• EdPAD (Mac OS X PAD Editor)
• DeuPAD (Windows PAD Editor, German)
• PADManager (Windows PAD Editor)
• PADCheck (Version Checker)
• MacPADEdit (Mac OS X PAD Editor)
• WordPress xmlPad Plugin (Blog system enhancement)

Free Services:

• PAD Validator (by SharewarePromotions)

Commercial Tools:

• GSA Auto SoftSubmit (Submission Utility)
• PromoSoft (Submission Utility)
• PADexpress (Submission Utility)
• Advanced PAD Submitter (Submission Utility)
• Shareware Tracker (Submission Utility)
• RoboSoft (Submission Utility)

Commercial Services:

• Downloads Site PHP Scripts (PADKit based set of download site scripts)
• PAD Database (PAD Repository)
• PadDb (PAD Hosting and PAD Repository)

Other Links:

• PADKit Modifications Forum (by Brian Gillingham)
• Categorized list of PAD supporting archives (by Adrian Nelson)

Resources:

• PAD Enabled Button, small (for webmasters to let authors know that PAD files are accepted)
• PAD Enabled Button, medium (for webmasters to let authors know that PAD files are accepted)
• PADGen Banner (for webmasters to link to PADGen)