PRO PCL to PDF/A

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

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

• Converts your production PCL 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 and Linux
• Indexes the PDF/A files and creates an external index for archive load

PRO PCL to PDF/A:

• Provides superior font management: it maps bitmap fonts to PDF Type 1 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 PCL 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

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

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

• Windows
• AIX
• Solaris
• Linux
• HP-UX

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