Wow, Jeff, you've obviously been drinking the Konservative Kool-Aid and
are quick to embrace any of their wacko fringe theories. First global
warming, now this.

Just out of curiosity, I also downloaded the PDF file of the long form
birth certificate from the White House website. I've been using
Illustrator for 20 years and Acrobat since it was introduced in 1993.
After examining the document, I see absolutely NO EVIDENCE of any
tampering.

It's true that the document consists of multiple layers, some of them
associated only with the date stamps. But this is just how Acrobat builds
its files. Items of slightly different color/shades of gray are often
placed on separate layers. The date stamps are on a different layer
because the stamps apparently used a different color ink than the
handwritten parts of the document (possibly blue or red ink, which appears
lighter gray when scanned). The handwritten dates (in black ink) appear on
the same layer as the other handwritten information. If someone was trying
to forge the date, they would have to alter both the handwritten dates and
the rubber date stamps. Most importantly, the relevant parts of the
document - that Obama was born in Hawaii - ARE ALL ON THE SAME LAYER. If
someone was trying to forge this document, they would have pasted Obama's
name onto someone else's Hawaii birth certificate. There is nothing in the
document to suggest that.

Jim



On 9/1/11 11:53 AM, "Jeff Swanson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi-
>
>This is definitely about graphics, but I am marking it as a TAN for
>obvious reasons.
>I downloaded the "birth certificate" from the whitehouse site, and can
>prove that the document has been rather clumsily altered.
>PDF is the native, working format not only for Acrobat, but for Adobe
>Illustrator, as well - and Illustrator treats PDF differently than any
>other program.
>Anyone can, after downloading the document he claims to be authentic,
>open it in Illustrator (Important: do NOT import the document - it must
>be opened as an Illustrator document) and look in the Layers palette.
>Several layers of Altered information become immediately obvious -
>specifically date alterations. A VERY clumsy job, to boot.
>The same document when opened in Acrobat, Photoshop, or imported into
>Illustrator (rather than opened) appears as a flattened, if somewhat
>suspicious looking, low resolution scan.
>
>Enjoy!
>Jeff
>.......................
>Jeff K. Swanson
>Swanson Creative
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