callas software presents: The pdfaPilot

The new, high-tech PDF tool – especially for PDF/A users! – Save existing PDF files as PDF/A-compliant files at the touch of a button – This powerful tool will be available from December 2006.

Berlin, September 19th, 2006 The high-tech specialist in quality PDF verification and conversion tools callas software has enhanced its product portfolio with a new PDF/A tool. In contrast with callas software's existing specialized prepress PDF tools – the pdfToolbox for Adobe Acrobat and the CLI automation tools – the pdfaPilot is aimed at users working in archives, public authorities, and enterprises.

The pdfaPilot, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, is specially designed for users who need to quickly check whether existing PDF documents can be archived as PDF/A. It allows users to save existing PDF files as PDF/A-compliant files at the touch of a button. In order to facilitate this, callas software has developed an extremely user-friendly interface that enables the quick and easy analysis of existing PDF files and the simple creation of ISO-compliant PDF/A files. This powerful tool will be available from specialist callas software dealers from December.

In addition to the plug-in for the Windows versions of Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional (from Version 6.0 in both cases), callas software will also be offering a fully automatic pdfaPilot CLI command-line module. The pdfaPilot CLI version can be quickly and easily integrated into all modern, server-based digital workflow systems as a high-performance tool to verifying, optimizing, and converting PDF/A files. The pdfaPilot CLI will be available as a command-line module for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun.

Background: For a long time, users and decision makers in public institutions and enterprises have been searching for a uniform standard for electronic documents that need to be stored for many years for legal reasons or because of their historical value. The recently prepared ISO 19005-1 standard defines PDF/A as the standard for long-term archiving. PDF/A files are therefore a safe way of ensuring the survival of the form and content of important documents regardless of the platform used. callas software has been involved in the formulation of the PDF/A standard from the start. callas software developed the first tool for PDF/A verification in the form of the preflight plug-in for Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional (which enables PDF/A validation from Version 7.0.7). The experience gained by callas software in this area is now being applied to the creation of documents and the conversion of existing PDF files to PDF/A.


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