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PowerArchiver Format (PAF)

Lets develop new PowerArchiver Format (PAF) together! Tell us what YOU want from your next generation format! Please also vote and wish on next format for PowerArchiver. Do not send us wishes about what other things you want improved with PA or some other formats in PA like rar or zip. You can use our regular site for that! Thank you!

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1015
votes

PDF, DOCX, ODT and PNG compression

Create better compression for PDF, DOCX, ODT and PNG files

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:35

3 comments

in process

826
votes

JPEG compression

Create better JPEG compression for PAF format!

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:36

3 comments

scheduled

604
votes

MP3 compression

Compress MP3 music a lot better!

spwolf, 19.01.2011, 18:36

0 comments

551
votes

Better video file compression

.exe Support / SFX

Support building SFX files and make it possible to extract

guido, 21.01.2011, 09:23

2 comments

524
votes

Ability to mount archives and play videos (open documents) inside without decompressing the whole file

A format that allows to open/edit files inside without decompressing whole archive. It should be suitable for playing huge videos inside archives without waiting to extract whole file.

alextorex, 22.01.2011, 19:31

0 comments

447
votes

Multiplatform support (Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, Apple iOS, etc)

If it cannot be used to transfer between operating systems, the format will most likely fail.

mheyman, 23.01.2011, 14:07

0 comments

392
votes

Internal and external data recovery records

Internal and external data recovery records for PAF format.

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:47

0 comments

376
votes

Digitally signed archives

Digitally signed archives (PKI x.509), both verification and encryption

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:48

0 comments

358
votes

Continue to support old Windows OSes

aleksej, 22.01.2011, 19:35

2 comments

308
votes

256 Bit AES encryption with FIPS 140 certification.

256 Bit AES encryption with filename encryption and master key recovery for business users. FIPS 140 certification by the government.

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:50

2 comments

291
votes

smart compression of virtual machine images

Virtual machine disk images typically contain many unused virtual disk sectors. Currently, to get good compression, I have to first 'shrink' the virtual machine disk image then compress the shrunken image. The University of Utah has a BSD licensed...

mheyman, 23.01.2011, 14:15

1 comment

289
votes

Better PSD, RAW compression(cr2, nef, dng)

Ben, 21.01.2011, 21:06

0 comments

240
votes

Versioning support with byte level differentials

Versioning support with byte level differentials for storing only changed parts of newer versions.

spwolf, 18.01.2011, 01:52

0 comments

23
votes

PAR2 Support

PAR2 is the best recovery format for broken files. The integration of a par2 system for checking and repairing archives secured with par2 and creating par2 files for created archives would be great.

Torsten, 23.01.2011, 22:41

0 comments