What is Padded?
Padded is a feature-filled but user-friendly PAD file editor. It helps you build publicity and increase downloads of your software, by creating PAD files software distribution sites can load into their product databases.
The PAD specification is an initiative of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
Padded's main features:
• Software descriptions for all PAD spec languages. Unicode and UTF-8 supported.• 18 PAD extensions: Affiliates, Article, ASP, Delphi, ESC, MSN, Newsfeed, OISV, Online Shops, PAD Ring, PADmap, Press Release, RoboSoft, RSS Feed, Runtime, Simtel, TPA and ZDNet.
• Import/export using PADGen Company Info (CML), PADGen Program Info (PML) files and PAD file components.
• Templates to automatically handle CML/PML/PAD file component imports when starting a new file.
• Tooltip help for each field and content length conformance in text fields.
Features also included:
• Digital signing of your PAD files, via integration with third party tools.• PAD file transfer: send your PAD file over FTP or HTTP/S, to and from your web site.
• Available for Windows, Mac OS X and X11, with platform appropriate user interfaces for each.
• Regularly updated and maintained.
Try the software for free, register it for the low price of USD $25.00 if you use it for more than 30 days.
Registration allows you to use the same license on all supported platforms.
Download
| Platform | Download | Screenshot | System Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac OS X | v2.16 (4.8M) | View | Mac OS X 10.2 and up4. PowerPC G4 and up or Intel. |
| Windows | v2.16 (2.8M) | View | Microsoft Windows (98-Seven), or Wine 0.9.25 and up1, or ReactOS 0.3.4 and up2. |
| Linux (x86) | v2.16 (3.3M) | View | Linux kernel 2.2.16 and up. Pentium CPU and up. X11. LibSSL 0.9.8 recommended but not essential3. |
The download links above will redirect you to a download from the round-robin pool. Your file download will start immediately.
Note1: Padded also runs on a wide range of other operating systems (including FreeBSD, PC-BSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux and BeOS) using Wine. It runs well in Wine and needs only the base install. Note2: While Padded (generally) works on ReactOS, ReactOS is itself in alpha-level development and not considered stable. Note3: Where LibSSL is not available or found on Linux, Padded will disable the features that depend on it. Note4: Padded 2.16 will be the last to support Mac OS X 10.2-10.4 (Jaguar, Panther and Tiger). |
Useful links: change log, installation. You can find more documentation on how to use Padded by clicking 'Help⇒Padded Help' from the app's main menu.



