What is Padded?
Padded is a multi-platform, user-friendly PAD (Portable Application Description) editor,
which enables you to create PAD files for software archives to use to publicise your software.PAD files are an industry standard XML format used for describing software in a simple, standard format, to software archives. The specification is an initiative of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
Padded supports:
• All PAD spec languages in your PAD at once. 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 from and export to PADGen Company Info (CML) and Program Info (PML) files.
• Import data from Company, Software, Descriptions and Extensions sections of PAD files.
Added features:
• Templates to automatically handle CML/PML/PAD file component imports when starting a new file.• Digital signing of PAD files through integration with third party tools.
• Transfer your PAD, over FTP or HTTP/S, to and from your web site.
• Available for Windows, Mac OS X and X11, with platform appropriate user interface.
• Regularly updated and maintained.
Please register this Shareware if you use it for more than 30 days. Registration costs USD $25.00 and covers Padded on all supported platforms.
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| 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. |
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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 to function. Note2: ReactOS is itself in alpha-level development. While Padded generally works there, we can't guarantee it'll work with each release as the underlying ReactOS subsystems are rather fluid and changeable. Note3: Where LibSSL is not available 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.
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