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There already exist formats as you describe, but regardless, a change of format wouldn't fix anything. The same problem would just surface there, as Preview and

by ruined 6y ago

There already exist formats as you describe, but regardless, a change of format wouldn't fix anything. The same problem would just surface there, as Preview and whatever add support for those formats, and include editing features. If you don't want to break something, just don't try to edit it. That can't be enforced anywhere but at the individual user level. Even proprietary formats in first-party software have this problem. Hell, plain-text editors have this problem.

pm215 6y ago
It would help if Preview wasn't really keen on editing the document, though. I find it tries to modify PDFs quite often -- I think it happens if I accidentally click on a table as I scroll through the document. I have resorted to 'chmod 0444 *.pdf' on my folder of datasheets and manuals so it can't mess with what I want to be a read-only file. Preview is the only pdf viewer I've ever needed to do that for. I've never wanted to edit a PDF, so personally I'd rather the feature was gated behind a menu option or something so you had to deliberately ask for it.