callas software and Appligent Document Solutions have announce several Server-based product bundles for PDF/A workflows.

Many PDF/A workflows require essential PDF conversion steps that are closely tied to, but not part of, the conversion to PDF/A. The bundles combine Appligent's offerings for PDF security, variable forms, and stamping, for example; with callas' ability to convert files to be PDF/A compliant.

As a result, enterprise, government and publishing sites enjoy efficient, automated "best practice" processing of numerous steps, such as date-stamping and insuring security with signatures; for ISO-standard, PDF/A archiving.

The PDF/A file format for archiving insures that documents created today can reliably be opened, displayed and used in the future.

The newest version of callas pdfaPilot, the award-winning solution first released with the publication of the PDF/A format in 2006, converts documents, spreadsheets and presentations created with Microsoft Office to compliant PDF/A files.

In conjunction with Appligent server applications StampPDF Batch, FDFMerge, SecurSign, AppendPDF and APCrypt, frequently required standards are met with the PDF/A workflows.

The performance of the bundles are as follows:
- When converting PDF files into PDF/A, the bundle comprising pdfaPilot server and server application StampPDF batch makes it possible to simultaneously capture any text or image stamps; which show, for example, when the PDF was converted and archived.
- FDFMerge is a command line tool for dynamic import of variable data and the storage of typical PDF forms or templates, such as requests, orders or print jobs (WebToPrint). Now these merged forms can be made compliant with PDF/A.
- If a PDF/A document needs to be protected against future changes, it must be signed - therefore the combination of pdfaPilot and SecurSign was developed.
- AppendPDF ensures that different documents are combined into one PDF/A - including bookmarks and a table of contents.
- PDF/A does not allow encrypted content. Therefore, before you convert to PDF/A format, you must first remove any encrypted content from the PDF files. APCrypt allows you to store a key once and to automatically decrypt any PDF in order to convert it to PDF/A.