PDF/A creation in Mac OS X. Is this impossible?

Hi everybody,
I need to generate PDF/A files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A) in 10.4 or 10.5 but I can't figure out how to do it!
The best way would be to have a virtual PDF printer able to create this kind of documents but I can't find anything on the web.
I hope to find a solution as in Windows is pretty easy as there are many ways to do this!
I need PDF/A so I can put digital signatures on them with Adobre Acrobat 9 Pro.
Thanks everybody in advance!

Thanks a lot everybody for your precious help.
I solved the problem adopting Acrobat Distiller which can be configured to check a folder every "x" seconds.
Distiller is able to convert any PostScript file in a PDF/A document and assuming that every application is able to create PostScript files I just had to teach the users to save the documents in a specific folder which is processed every 5 seconds.
I think we'll buy the server version very soon, anyway!!!
I also tried your suggestion, Kurt, but I don't understand why the printer queue is stopped evrytime I launch a PDF/A print...

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