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Originally posted by micpsi
The name of the hospital where Obama was supposed to be born didn’t change to Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital merged with Kapi‘olani Maternity Home in 1978. So how could his official long form birth certificate that was generated in 1961 have the name of the hospital that wasn’t created until 1978?
From WIKI:
The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapiʻolani as the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862–1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiʻolani Maternity Home to become Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
Originally posted by Bonified Ween
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by White2098
You can easily split up a random document in Illustrator...it's a feature
For someone who claims to have worked with those programs you know surprisingly little
You don't CREATE the layers when it imports. They are already there. Clueless one. How much are you being paid, just curious?
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by Bonified Ween
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by White2098
You can easily split up a random document in Illustrator...it's a feature
For someone who claims to have worked with those programs you know surprisingly little
You don't CREATE the layers when it imports. They are already there. Clueless one. How much are you being paid, just curious?
Now you're just clueless
PDFs DON'T HAVE NATURAL LAYERS!! If they did, you couldn't use it cross platform...which is the main advantage of PDFs.
Not being paid either for spreading truth...I don't even like Obama much. I just want to help end the stupidity and make people realize how ridiculous and uninformed the birthers' claims are
Originally posted by Rising Against
So people continually ask for the Obama Birth certificate and then when It's produced, It's still rejected.
Sigh.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by MisterSpaghetti
Like I said, you can save layers...but you have to do it on purpose. Also, programs like Illustrator can split up a documents into parts without natural layers being present.
The fact remains, opening a PDF in Illustrator isn't proof of forgery. Open a random PDF in Illustrator, try it yourself. Depending on the scanning software used, it can also create layers automatically when creating a PDF by separating the background (or what it considers to be the background) from the text or pics. It's a pretty cool feature that can make it a lot easier to work on files after you scanned them
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by micpsi
The document has layers. Therefore, it is a fake. Proof here:
wireupdate.com...
Wow, thats new...nobody brought that up in this thread.
...
(yes, that was sarcasm...read back a bit, there is explanations...this entire thread is focused on just that...check about halfway through the thread to see the explanations if your interested)
What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner. Let’s leave it at that.
Originally posted by BlackOps719
Call me paranoid but I have a theory as to why such a poor attempt at forgery has been released by the Obama camp.
They knew it would be easily found as a fake by people who no doubt would pick it apart piece by piece.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by MisterSpaghetti
Like I said, you can save layers...but you have to do it on purpose. Also, programs like Illustrator can split up a documents into parts without natural layers being present.
The fact remains, opening a PDF in Illustrator isn't proof of forgery. Open a random PDF in Illustrator, try it yourself. Depending on the scanning software used, it can also create layers automatically when creating a PDF by separating the background (or what it considers to be the background) from the text or pics. It's a pretty cool feature that can make it a lot easier to work on files after you scanned them
Originally posted by ACTS 2:38
Blacks were classified as Negro in the 60's people not African.
HMMMP
Originally posted by crudos
Originally posted by BlackOps719
Call me paranoid but I have a theory as to why such a poor attempt at forgery has been released by the Obama camp.
They knew it would be easily found as a fake by people who no doubt would pick it apart piece by piece.
You know why? Because it is NOT a forgery to begin with. Adobe, who created and have pushed the PDF format as a universal file solution have debunked the idea it is a forgery as have several people in this thread.
Originally posted by Matteroni
As a graphic artist (yes I do this for a living, refer to my avatar for some art I digitally altered of myself for this site) I can tell you that this was indeed an edited scan just as the OP is trying to point out. Whether or not it's Obama was born in USA or not nobody knows, this is only a piece of paper. If agencies wanted to, they could post a REAL birth certificate and then edit it, so that the 'hardcore' people will find out and cry foul and then the mainstream news and the world can paint them as extremist nuts and be successfully placed into the peripheral.
Whatever is going on, nobody knows. The only thing that is for certain is that this scan was very much edited, and anyone who simply says "you are a nut" without ANY evidence or supporting arguments is completely and obviously fighting for and clinging on to a bias. Ego and pride has a way of preventing us from admitting our mistakes.