Suppose you edit a picture in Preview and added new elements such as text. In what format should you save the file if you want to resume editing the added elements, like changing the font of the text for example?
Proper save format for preview for editable pictures
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You can force Preview to prompt for save on quit with the following Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.Preview ApplePersistenceIgnoreState -bool true
Quit and re-open Preview once and you will be prompted in future closes
On Yosemite (Preview 8.0), hit shift-command-A or select "Show Markup Toolbar" from the "View" menu:
Find font options by clicking on the italic A:
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Best Answer
I dont think such a portable editable document can be made in preview. It will export in these formats.
I don't know about HEIC and OpenEXR, but none of the others would allow such modifications AFAIK, if done from Preview.