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Member Area

Interoperability is good for business.

Most PDF Association members are companies or individual consultants who access industry resources to help drive development of PDF-centric products or services. We offer a range of membership options for other types of PDF technology stakeholders.

An Invited Expert program is available for domain experts who cannot pay for Full membership; email us to learn more.

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Full

Full membership is for companies with significant investments in PDF technology. This membership type includes marketing benefits.
2025 Member Fees €940 – €22,500

Individual

Typically held by consultants, Individual members may not share PDF Association resources with their employers or clients.
2025 Member Fees €375

Partner

Partner members are major supporters of the industry. They gain early access to sponsorship opportunities and are eligible for the Board of Directors.
2025 Member Fees €750 – €45,000

 

Division

Limited Full membership for PDF technology implementers working for a large-scale producer or consumer of PDF files.
2025 Member Fees $3,750

Institution

Institutional membership is for government agencies and academic institutions engaging the technical details of PDF technology.
2025 Member Fees €375 – €10,000

Liaison

Non-profit organizations use Liaison membership to engage with industry on understanding and enhancements to PDF technology.
Free (non-profits only)
Membership features and benefits Partner Full Division Institution Individual Liaison
Access ISO working groups via the PDF Association’s Category A Liaison status with ISO

  • Stay up to date on what’s coming
  • Comment on draft documents
  • Propose additions or corrections, request clarifications, or ask questions before ISO standards are finalized
  • Follow detailed discussions to understand the intention behind ISO-standardized language
  • Drive development of new and updated ISO standards
  • Network with ISO experts from around the world

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Access to Technical Working Groups (TWGs)

  • Participate in – and benefit from – collaborations in vendor-neutral meetings
  • Clarify understandings to ensure alignment with your implementations
  • Access to private GitHub repositories
  • Inspire and help to develop stakeholder guidance in alignment with your organization’s objectives
  • Champion and promote your engagement in developing working group publications (e.g., app notes, test suites, public GitHub repositories, proof-of-concept implementations, etc.)
  • Stay in front of the marketplace by pre-aligning your technologies and priorities to leverage new PDF features
  • Resolve issues raised in the pdf-issues repository
  • Follow members-only discussions to understand the context and background for PDF Association publications
  • Get to know PDF’s stakeholders, find potential partners
  • Stay informed of upcoming changes affecting PDF
  • Benefit from monitoring developments in areas outside of your own vertical focus

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Access to Liaison Working Groups (LWGs)

  • Participate in – and benefit from – collaborations in vendor-neutral meetings
  • Access private GitHub repositories
  • Inspire and help to develop stakeholder guidance in alignment with your organization’s objectives
  • Promote the working group’s activities and your participation
  • Meet new contacts, new stakeholders, and find potential partners
  • Benefit from monitoring developments in areas outside of your own vertical focus
  • Unlike TWGs, it’s possible for non-members to join LWGs, with limited benefits
  • Develop vendor-neutral publications (e.g. app notes, technical notes, guidelines, test suites, etc) aligned with your interest

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Access to Marketing Working Groups (MWGs)

  • A way for marketplace-minded employees of member companies to discuss issues of common interest
  • Participate in collaborations to develop end-user educational content
  • Highlight topics from TWG and LWG activities
  • Advance popular understanding of modern PDF’s value and features
  • Support awareness of PDF Association and ISO publications

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The opportunity to chair working groups

  • Define the group’s agenda
  • Promote your own vision
  • Be visible in a leadership capacity
  • Associate your name and company with specific advances in PDF

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The opportunity to co-chair working groups

  • Collaborate with other chairs to define the group’s agenda
  • Advance your perspective
  • Help drive PDF technology forward
  • Be associated with developments in PDF technology

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Vote on PDF Association publications

  • Advance notice of forthcoming publications provides opportunities for alignment
  • Opportunity to disclose intellectual property (IP) to help ensure awareness

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Access internal information from affiliated organizations

  • Monitor developments in related domains
  • Offer your perspective
  • Contribute to updating existing and new documents

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Participate in PDF Week technical conferences

  • Advance your technical perspective and agenda (remote attendance is possible)
  • Network with PDF experts, standards developers, invited experts, and ISO delegates
  • Define and drive the development of the next generation of PDF specifications and standards
  • In-person meetings twice a year in locations around the world

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Appear in the Members' list

  • Increase your visibility in the marketplace
  • Associate your logo with the standards development organization for the PDF format
  • Ensure that your company is represented where buyers look

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The right to use the PDF Association’s member logo

  • Highlight your involvement in PDF’s worldwide technical community
  • Deploy the logo on websites and marketing collateral
  • Available in regular and dark versions for both web and print

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Publish educational (non-commercial) articles on pdfa.org

  • Inform developers, users and other stakeholders
  • Expand awareness of your expertise
  • Demonstrate your engagement as a thought leader and innovator
  • Suggest consideration of your solutions by highlighting your areas of interest
  • Articles are featured on pdfa.org and in the monthly newsletter
  • Post content on the go-to site for PDF technology information

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Post news and updates from your company

  • Increase awareness of company news, white papers, and case studies
  • Promote your website with links from a trusted vendor-neutral site with high SEO value
  • Highlight your company’s affiliation with PDF’s standards-development organization
  • Posts appear on the pdfa.org news page and in our monthly newsletter

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Products can appear in the PDF product showcase

  • Increase awareness of your products
  • Improve your website’s SEO with in-links from pdfa.org
  • Ensure your products are visible alongside your competitors
  • Categorize products by feature and vertical marketplace

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Include your products in the PDF Association’s feature support lists

  • Promote your brand as supporting ISO-standardized PDF technology
  • Showcase products supporting PDF 2.0, PDF/UA, 3D PDF, forensic analysis and more
  • Ensure your products are visible alongside those of your competitors

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Attend PDF Association in-person events

  • Network with other professionals and stakeholders
  • Get leading-edge information and education
  • PDF Workshops provide in-depth technical education
  • PDF Days offer educational, non-commercial presentations of interest to PDF application developers, integrators, and institutional users

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Discount on attending PDF Association events

  • Reduced ticket cost for employees, partners and customers
  • Speakers attend PDF Days events at no cost!

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Promotional opportunities at events

  • Promote your company, products, and services
  • Offer educational and / or commercial presentations
  • Preferred speaking opportunities
  • Sponsor the event to raise your visibility

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Sponsor publically-available resources (e.g. ISO 32000-2)

  • Demonstrate technical engagement and leadership
  • Highlight your support for open standards development
  • Create strategic marketing opportunities

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First chance at sponsorship opportunities

  • Guarantee your preferred package for events, publications, sponsored ISO standards

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Promote availability for employment or consulting

  • Find new employment in the PDF technology space
  • Find consulting projects that suit your expertise
  • Showcase your membership in PDF’s worldwide technical community

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Receive Solution Agent requests from site visitors

  • Make new connections by answering questions and solving problems
  • Obtain leads based on requests for assistance

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Eligible to serve on the Board of Directors

  • Be visible in an executive leadership capacity
  • Guide the PDF’s standards development organization
  • Leverage the fact of Board membership as a sales and marketing tool

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