Free pad files software for windows

Quickly generate PAD files with the PAD-ID server-side plugin PAD-ID is a free set of scripts that allows you to generate custom PAD files for each download site you submit to.
PAD (Portable Application Description) is a new standard of passing program information that make easier the registration of programs for the authors, but it also should enable the archive administrators to update the programs automatically.

The PolySoft E-Pad is a free tool tht allows you to create a rich text file (rtf). This version comes with built in clipboard which can hold several pieces of information.

PlusPAD is an advanced PAD file generator, editor and validator. Includes a solid project based management of the PAD files, embedded validation, multiple languages, fast file processing and esthetic GUI.
PlusPAD is able to generate 1 or multiple PAD files, save the formatted html version of the PAD file or even view the PAD file as raw XML inside the embedded browser. Multiple views can be changed by a click of the mouse.

If you find yourself using a text editor such as Notepad for touching up your HTML files, HTML Pad is a handy utility. Copies such things as hexadecimal color values, special characters, fonts, and headings to the clipboard for easy pasting into HTML documents. Minimize it while you work and you wont have to keep digging out those HTML reference books.Requires the VB 4.0 Runtimes.

PadSubmit is a simple and small automated pad submitting program. PadSubmit is an automated pad submitting program that will easily and quickly submit your pad files to 71 freeware/shareware websites. You can view the submitting results afterwards. It is mainly used by programmers that want to distribute their programs around using a simple system.
You open the program, specify your connection method and then enter your pad file url for example http://www.willemssoft.be/pad/padsubmit.xml. Once you have done this all you have to do is press the submit button and the program will start the submitting proces.
After the program has finished submitting you can view the results by selecting a site and pressing the "view selected result" button. (or you check out the html files in the "results" folder)
The program will detect if a submission was succesfull, meaning that the ubmitted program from the pad file is either updated or listed as a new program, or if it has failed, that there wasnt a catergory found in the pad file that matches the ones on the pad site, there was a connection problem, or the submission timed out.
Theres also an option to start from a certain site number in case you want to resume from a certain point. Timeout is used to specify how many seconds the application waits before it submits another program, this is only used to speed up the submission of pad urls that no longer work.
Threads is used to specify how many pad files you want to submit in one time. Please note that depending on the websites download speed and internet connection you might have to increase the timeout value.
A Pad file is basically an xml file that describes your program and using the pad file you can then submit this information to multiple freeware shareware software sites. Its used so that you only have to enter your program details once and for ease of updating your programs information on websites.