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Originally posted by Annee
Authenticity of documents can not be determined on line. Period!
Originally posted by rogerstigers
I think most of the people in this thread are not commenting on the validity of the *original* document because we haven't seen the original document. This thread is about the digital copy publicly available from the whie house web site.
Originally posted by Bonified Ween
The big Deal for me is the fact that this is one layer, and within this layer you can see the three most important things were kept and at the bottom. The signatures of Local Registrar and Attending Doc and half of Obama's mothers sig.
So what I don't understand is why is Obama's mothers half signatures in two different layers of the image. Technically it should be in one.edit on 27-4-2011 by Bonified Ween because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Logical oneBut that's the point Annee and I are making, just because someone suspects that the document put online is a layered scanned copy.......doesn't and cannot be "proof" that it, or indeed the original document are faked in any way.
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 WildWorld
reply to post by Logical one
I agree, it being edited is in no way proof that the orig. doesn't exsist or that he was not born in Hawaii. What this document does prove though is that for whatever reason it has been edited. Why?
On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated ...
Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat not, and repeat yet once again not a general purpose PDF file editor. Opening any arbitrary PDF file in Adobe Illustrator other than PDF files saved in that version of later of Adobe Illustrator with the editability option (which saves the Illustrator document editing data as private data within the PDF file) may result in content loss or corruption.
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PDF layers are part of an overall feature known as optional content in PDF and are conceptually very different than Illustrator layers. Since PDF optional content features in general are very much a superset of Illustrator layers (PDFMaker for PowerPoint uses optional content to handle certain slide build features, for example), there would be no easy way for Illustrator to readily pick and choose what optional content features to support and translate. As such, don't expect this to be "rectified" in any way in future Illustrator releases.
(To make things even more interesting, both PDF and Illustrator layers are very different than Photoshop layers which allow for defined interactions between layers such as masking!)
Dov Isaacs
Originally posted by rogerstigers
This is what is leading me to believe it was some wonky artifact of the way it was scanned or generated. It's way to odd of an anomaly to be explained as a "blatant forgery". A blatant forgery would be a blank form with a layer of text.. that's not what we see here.
"I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue."
As for the actual document, Trump added, "We have to look at it, we have to see ... is it real? Is it proper? What's on it? But I hope it checks out beautifully."
Originally posted by Logical one
Originally posted by WildWorld
reply to post by Logical one
I agree, it being edited is in no way proof that the orig. doesn't exsist or that he was not born in Hawaii. What this document does prove though is that for whatever reason it has been edited. Why?
That's a valid question........but it depends what type of editing was done......."editing" does not simply mean changing of text which some here seemed to concluded already!( I'm not saying you have WildWorld)edit on 27-4-2011 by Logical one because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Annee
There is a Republican elected official - - who went to the actual health department in Hawaii - - saw the long form herself - - and has verified its existence. I can't remember her name. That works for me.