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PAD Validator
PAD Validator Tool
Validate your PAD file (Windows software only):
This tool checks the validity of PAD Files in accordance with the PAD Specifications 3.01. It also includes Avangate suggestions, made from our own experience with manual software submission. They are designed in order for your software to better meet the requirements that download portals impose.
Useful information:
1. Why validate?
The first step to increase your software sales is submitting your product to download sites and directories.
The way this works is by submitting validated PAD files to these websites. If the PAD file is not
valid your software is not going to be listed, or is going to be listed with errors, and that will not
help in any desired conversion.
2. What is a PAD file?
If you're a software author, you're probably familiar with those never ending requests and the need of updating the info on your programs, over and over again.
The Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) also thought of this and decided to do something about it. That's how the Portable Application Description (PAD) came about.
3. PAD Specifications 3.01
They define a PAD file as a well-formed, UTF-8 encoded XML 1.0 file containing the data fields listed here.
4. How this validator differs from others?
Useful links:
We included in these PAD validator suggestions made from our own experience with manual software
submissions. Even though PAD file is already set as a standard, there are many download portals that come
with their own guidelines that are not against the PAD Specifications 3.01. Therefore even if your file
respects the standard will still be rejected by the download portal. So we created suggestions that will
help you pass most, if not all, the download portals standards.
