AFP to PDF/A Print Conversion and Transformation - PRO AFP to PDF/A: converts documents from AFP to PDF/A files for long-term archiving.

PRO AFP to PDF/A
PRO AFP to PDF/A dynamically converts production print streams from AFO to PDF/A-1b archive-ready format, promoted by the PDF/A Competence Center (www.pdfa.org).

When the output generated by the PRO AFP to PDF/A is archived in the PDF/A-1b format, the rendered visual appearance of the document will be reproducible over the long-term, irrespective of any hardware or software changes, exactly as the law demands.

PRO Products provide conversion of print-steams including Xerox Metacode/LCDS, ImageDS, PCL, PostScript, PDF, Flat File, Line Print, ASCII, EBCDIC, XML and HTML into formats such as Postscript, Image, Metacode, XML, HTML, PDF and RTF

PRO AFP to PDF/A

Is your production operation creating customer-focused documents using AFP? Are you under regulatory fiat on how they need to be archived and retrieved? If so, you’re facing technological, legal and regulatory challenges dealing with how to store and retrieve these documents long term. Crawford Technologies’ PRO AFP to PDF/A provides a solution to your problems.

Crawford Technologies offers PRO AFP to PDF/A, a cost-effective, platform-independent product that takes your production AFP print streams and produces PDF/A-1b output ready to archive. PRO AFP to PDF/A:

Converts your production AFP print streams to archive-ready PDF/A
Creates PDF/A-1b output
Works on a wide variety of platforms, including Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and z/OS
Indexes the PDF/A files and creates an external index for archive load

PRO AFP to PDF/A:

Provides superior font management: it maps bitmap fonts to PDF Type 1 fonts. Automatically converts and embeds AFP Contour fonts. Custom fonts are automatically converted to PDF Type 3 fonts.
Uses PDF/A overlays to emulate pre-printed form stock. This makes the creation of watermarks easy, allowing the full power of PDF/A to be utilized within legacy applications. This approach can be used to add full color graphics and Terms and Conditions pages.
Uses object-to-object AFP to PDF/A transformation rather than object-to-bitmap transforms. This approach produces PDF/A files optimized for archiving.
Bookmarks any data in the print file which automatically organizes it into multiple levels for easy navigation within the document.
Lets you set up index rules to create external indices on multiple criteria
Supports advanced AFP capabilities including BCOCA, color IOCA (FS42/FS45), contour fonts and TLE indexing.

The PRO AFP to PDF/A transform has all the capabilities of the PRO AFP to PDF transform (PDF v. 1.4) allowed under the PDF/A-1b standard.

PRO AFP to PDF/A runs on the following platforms, which allows you to install your software where you need it:

z/OS
Windows
AIX
Solaris
Linux
HP-UX

PRO AFP to PDF/A is Generally Available for immediate use. For more information on how you can use PRO AFP to PDF/A to solve your long-term archive problems, Contact Us today.

AFP to PDF/A Print Conversion Software: PRO AFP to PDF/A

PDF/A is an international standard (ISO 19005-1). When documents are archived in the PDF/A format, the rendered visual appearance of the document will be reproducible over the long-term, irrespective of any hardware or software changes, exactly as the law demands.

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