PAD is the Portable Application Description helping authors provide product descriptions and features to online sources in a standard way. PADGen uses a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings saving time for both authors and webmasters.

It just takes three simple steps to get to your PAD file: fill in your company and product information then verify your input and finally generate your PAD file.


Here are some key features of "PADGen":

· Address (Address_1, Address_2, City_Town
, Country): Single apostrophe character (0x27) allowed.
· Country (Country): Special characters between 0xBC and 0xFF and the dash sign allowed.
· Currencies (Program_Cost_Other_Code): Updated currency list according to ISO 4217.
· Languages (Program_Language and Program_Descriptions): Updated list of language identifiers according to ISO 639.
· Operating Systems (Program_OS_Support): Added current OS identifiers to list.
· Ordering URL (Application_Order_URL): Field made optional.
· Icon URL (Application_Icon_URL): Preferred size is 32x32 pixels.
· Download Extensions (Primary_Download_URL, Secondary_Download_URL, Additional_Download_URL_1, Additional_Download_URL_2): Added common download extensions.
· Distribution permissions and EULA (Distribution_Permissions, EULA): Allowed tab character.
· 2000 Chars Description (Char_Desc_2000): Allowed tab character and line breaks.
· Remove Deprecated Fields (Filename_Versioned, Filename_Previous, Filename_Generic, Filename_Long, Program_Categories, Includes_JAVA_VM, Includes_VB_Runtime, Includes_DirectX): Deprecated fields removed from the spec.






Date: 09.08.08


Size: 3.35 MB


License: Freeware


Developer: Association of Shareware Profe