pdfaPilot Kicks Off

PRESS RELEASE

Berlin, December 20th, 2006. Precisely in time for the new year, callas soft­ware is ship­ping its com­plete­ly new kind of tool for the long-term archiv­ing of lega­cy PDF files to its retail­ers: the pdfaPilot. The inno­v­a­tive soft­ware pro­gram allows users work­ing in archives, pub­lic author­i­ties and com­pa­nies to quick­ly and secure­ly check exist­ing PDF files and con­vert them to PDF/A files that con­form to the standard.

The pdfaPilot, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional (ver­sion 6, 7 and 8), is spe­cial­ly designed for users who need to quick­ly check whether exist­ing PDF doc­u­ments can be archived as PDF/ A. When start­ing the plug-in in Acrobat, pdfaPilot auto­mat­i­cal­ly ana­lyzes if the doc­u­ment that has been opened in Acrobat con­forms to the PDF/A stan­dard or whether it is a PDF/A file already. PDF files that do not con­form to the stan­dard can be checked for PDF/A stan­dard com­pli­ance at the touch of a but­ton. Readily under­stand­able ver­i­fi­ca­tion reports inform the user at every step of the ver­i­fi­ca­tion process whether and how the exist­ing PDF file can be cor­rect­ed and con­vert­ed to a PDF/A file. The cutting-edge tool is there­fore able to solve giv­en con­ver­sion and archiv­ing prob­lems on many occas­sions, e.g. by re-embedding miss­ing fonts. This allows for a smooth con­ver­sion to a valid PDF/A file.

While design­ing the new pdfaPilot, callas soft­ware could apply its expe­ri­ence in the devel­op­ment of high-quality PDF ver­i­fi­ca­tion, opti­miza­tion and cor­rec­tion tools gained over many years. Berlin- based callas soft­ware has been man­u­fac­tur­ing its lead­ing, spe­cial­ized PDF soft­ware and tech­nol­o­gy for more than 10 years and is licens­ing its prod­ucts to com­pa­nies such as Adobe, Hewlett Packard, Mitsubishi or Xerox. The com­pa­ny invent­ed the pre­flight plug-in of Adobe Acrobat Professional and set the de fac­to stan­dard for the ver­i­fi­ca­tion of PDF files. Furthermore, callas soft­ware, as a mem­ber of the ISO stan­dard com­mit­tees (ISO, International Organization for Standardization), was heav­i­ly involved in the stan­dard­iza­tion of PDF/ X for the print­ing indus­try as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving.

A single-user license of pdfaPilot costs EUR 379 excl. VAT.

(Volume dis­counts are avail­able on request.)

The Acrobat plug-in demo ver­sion for Windows 98/NT/ME/2K/XP can be used with­out restric­tions for a peri­od of 30 days.

Click here to get the pdfaPilot demo version:

http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​a​P​i​l​o​t​_​w​in.zip

The demo ver­sion can be used with­out restric­tions for a peri­od of 30 days. pdfaPilot runs under Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional in the 6, 7 or 8 ver­sion on Windows 98/NT/ME/2K/XP/Vista.

For more infor­ma­tion about pdfaPilot and PDF/A, see the Software Guide and the Product Brochure at:

http://​www​.callas​soft​ware​.com/​p​d​f​a​/​d​o​k​u​.​p​h​p​/​e​n​:​d​o​wnload

About callas software:
callas soft­ware GmbH, Berlin, was found­ed by Olaf Drümmer in 1995 and spe­cial­izes in devel­op­ing PDF tech­nol­o­gy. Acrobat plug-ins, command- line tools and pro­gram­ming libraries of callas soft­ware check, cor­rect, color-convert, and opti­mize PDF files for print­ing and online pub­lish­ing, doc­u­ment man­age­ment, and archiv­ing. callas soft­ware tech­nolo­gies have been licensed by renowned man­u­fac­tur­ers such as Adobe, Helios, Hewlett Packard, Mitsubishi Paper Mills, and Xerox. callas soft­ware has been work­ing on devel­op­ing indus­tri­al stan­dards for more than five years and is active­ly involved in DIN, ISO, CIP4, the European Color Initiative, and the Ghent PDF Workgroup. Furthermore, callas soft­ware is a found­ing mem­ber of the PDF/A Competence Center, as well as a per­ma­nent mem­ber of the VOI – Verband Organisations- und Informationssysteme e.V. and the AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management.