PAD Fab is a free Mac utility that allows software authors to create and maintain PAD (Portable Application Description) files. PAD files provide a standard way for software authors to provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources.

This makes it easy for websites and program libraries to automate program listings. With a PAD file, authors can easily submit their software to many software listing sites and then maintain their listings by simply updating the PAD file. You can find out more about PAD at the ASP site.

PAD Fab generates XML compliant files that comply with the PAD 3.1 specification. PAD Fab automatically validates each field to the spec as you type. A built-in full PAD verification function is also available for you to check all your PAD entries at once.

PAD Fab is compatible with .cml and .pml (company and program xml files) generated by PAD Gen which is a Windows PAD generation utility provided free from the ASP. PAD Fab is able to use the .pml and .cml files generated by PAD Gen.

Requirements:

· Intel or PowerPC Mac.
· 800 KB of available hard drive space.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed problem when double-clicking on .pml or .cml file when PAD Fab not open. It was opening the last file opened instead of the file clicked on.
· Fixed misspelling - it used to misspell the word "Utilities" when it auto generated the "Program_Specific_Category" key for any of the "System Utilities" category classes.
· Updated to use PAD 3.11 Specification (was using 3.10).