Hi Albert,

I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist at present, and I guess it would require 
substantial changes to make it work - You'd need to make sure that chimera 
couldn't write out anything after reading that session, and given that Chimera 
is open source and has many different ways of writing data out that might be tricky.

However, that said, I think having a read-only packaged session format would be
a very valuable addition (particularly if it incorporated support for maps), because 
it would solve a long standing issue in peer review of structural biology 
results - how to provide raw data for inspection to reviewers without providing maps 
and models with no strings attached, which many PIs are disinclined to do.

Cheers,
Oliver.

>Hello:
>
>I've made a Chimera section which I would like to share with somebody 
>else. However, I don't want the PDB within Chimera section to be 
>exported by others. Is it possible for us to export some special file 
>format so that other users can only visualize my file, but they cannot 
>edit or export file into PDB coordinate?
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>Albert