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by Spooky23 3777 days ago
People who worry about these things professionally generally would veer towards TIFF if PDF was insufficient. PDF/A does stuff like embed fonts and avoid proprietary compression & encryption, to avoid likely long term failure scenarios.

In the US, permanently retained documents like court records are kept in PDF. It will be around.

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TIFF. Often expanded as "Thousands of Incompatible File Formats".