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But a leading software expert says there’s no doubt about its authenticity, and he dismisses claims of fraud as flat-out wrong.
The doubters have latched onto the idea that Adobe Illustrator — the premier program for computer graphic artists — “reveals” evidence of document manipulation in the Obama birth certificate. They note Illustrator reveals nine separate layers of the document, and claim it’s “proof” the file has been altered.
But that’s not so, says Jean-Claude Tremblay, a leading software trainer and Adobe-certified expert, who has years of experience working with and teaching Adobe Illustrator.
“You should not be so suspicious about this,” Tremblay told FoxNews.com, dismissing the allegations.
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He said the layers cited by doubters are evidence of the use of common, off-the-shelf scanning software — not evidence of a forgery. “I have seen a lot of illustrator documents that come from photos and contain those kind of clippings—and it looks exactly like this,” he said.
Tremblay explained that the scanner optical character recognition (OCR) software attempts to translate characters or words in a photograph into text. He said the layers cited by the doubters shows that software at work – and nothing more.
“When you open it in Illustrator it looks like layers, but it doesn’t look like someone built it from scratch. If someone made a fake it wouldn’t look like this,” he said.“Some scanning software is trying to separate the background and the text and splitting element into layers and parts of layers.”
Tremblay also said that during the scanning process, instances where the software was unable to separate text fully from background led to the creation of a separate layer within the document. This could be places where a signature runs over the line of background, or typed characters touch the internal border of the document.
“I know that you can scan a document from a scanner most of the time it will appear as one piece, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no software that’s doing this kind of stuff,” he said, adding that it’s really quite common.
“I’d be more afraid it’d be fake if it was one in piece. It would be harder to check if it’s a good one if it’s a fake,” Tremblay said.
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But a leading software expert says there’s no doubt about its authenticity, and he dismisses claims of fraud as flat-out wrong.
The doubters have latched onto the idea that Adobe Illustrator — the premier program for computer graphic artists — “reveals” evidence of document manipulation in the Obama birth certificate. They note Illustrator reveals nine separate layers of the document, and claim it’s “proof” the file has been altered.
But that’s not so, says Jean-Claude Tremblay, a leading software trainer and Adobe-certified expert, who has years of experience working with and teaching Adobe Illustrator.
“You should not be so suspicious about this,” Tremblay told FoxNews.com, dismissing the allegations.
Originally posted by Tyrson
Obama was proven to be a fake during the campaign yet he was still elected by a bunch of liberals and colleg students who thought it would be so cool to have a black president, regardless of the fact that he was a racist, a fake and a virtual nobody up until he ran for office.
So you’d be in jail if someone had accused of you murder, but didn’t have a murder weapon or a body?
Originally posted by xyankee
Are you serious? If someone accused me of murder and had as much circumstantial evidence as there is against him, I would be in jail already! There have been many many people who have gone to jail with less.
Originally posted by xyankee
reply to post by grahag
Are you serious? If someone accused me of murder and had as much circumstantial evidence as there is against him, I would be in jail already! There have been many many people who have gone to jail with less.
Originally posted by MasterAndrew
He is not American, his name tells me that. I don't need a birth certificate. But it would be good to see him explain this one.
Originally posted by Sinnthia
Originally posted by xyankee
reply to post by grahag
Are you serious? If someone accused me of murder and had as much circumstantial evidence as there is against him, I would be in jail already! There have been many many people who have gone to jail with less.
Circumstantial evidence that will hold up in court?
What is it? Can you list it all?
Originally posted by billybob
happy birther day to you, too, obvious spammer for obammer.
the pdf posted on the whitehouse website proves that the whitehouse could not release a normal image file, but instead, one with extra information which allows you to separate text from background.
your dancing and prancing around the issue is hilarious at best, totally evil at worst.
Originally posted by Elbereth
Unless I am badly misreading commenter's positions on this thread, it seems to be fairly unanimous that some type of change has been made to the new Obama BC since the certified copies were taken into possession in Hawaii by Obama's personal counsel. The dispute argued here concerns the nature of the change: Did it modify the content or did it just enhance the readability of the document?
I see an important corollary issue, however, if we are going to stipulate that some sort of change has in fact been made to the certified new Obama BC. On the previously released, computer-generated short-form Obama BC, it clearly states in the bottom border "Any Alterations Invalidate This Certificate".
If the short-form BC can be invalidated by "Any Alterations", why would the recently released certified copy of the original long-form Obama BC be held to a lower standard? I don't believe that it would be, and that the White House, by making even the most innocent alterations has in fact rendered the newly released original long-form Obama BC invalid, except as a propaganda exercise.edit on 4-5-2011 by Elbereth because: change bolding etc.
Originally posted by happykat39
You simply do not get a list of edits by a simple scan. Layers, maybe - edits, no way Jose'.
Originally posted by Elbereth
I wouldn't believe it if someone told me BHO jaywalked or double-parked. The funny business with his BC is happening further down the food chain.
Originally posted by Elbereth
reply to post by Sinnthia
It was more a response to the characterization, not yours to be sure, of BHO as some type of super-villain.
Originally posted by MasterAndrew
He is not American, his name tells me that. I don't need a birth certificate. But it would be good to see him explain this one.