PDF/A Quick Master creates high-quality PDF/A documents directly from your application automatically using very small simple steps for most important PDF settings.

Pros: PDF/A is the long-term archive format that sort of defines things so that later in time when the document is to be retrieved everything that is necessary to recover the document is self contained. So that even if other technology, such as any font dependency, has changed the document can still be read. This is now adopted as an international standard ISO 19005. This application helps create these PDF/A documents easily.

PDF/A Quick Master creates automatically high-quality PDF/A documents directly from your application using very small simple steps for most important PDF settings. You can set or select description (general document properties), security settings, optimization, font embedding and image quality.

Like most such third party PDF creators PDF/A Quick Master also installs as a virtual printer named "soft Xpansion PDF-A Quick Master" on your computer, which guides the creation of the PDF/A document.

Once a conversion is requested there are several settings that can be made. First set of parameters are document properties; author, subject etc. Then it is the security settings which include couple of encryption modes. Several file options are available too. Then there’s a dingle click conversion command. Cons: One big problem with the standard itself is all these embedding requirements. That makes even the small file quite heavy. A problem with the application itself is that it allows encryption to be done whereas the standard specifically disallows encryption.

Overall the application installs easily, is easy to use too and so is rated at a very good 3 stars level.