Others insist that the certificate is forged. They claim that by using photo-editing software to examine the PDF file the White House released, it becomes clear that the document consists of several separate layers, indicating that it has somehow been manipulated. "Others insist . . . they claim . . . somehow . . . manipulated."
Well, stupid, if you doubt it, how about trying it yourself. Download the .pdf file from the White House website and have a look at it with photo-editing software.
Now, then. Are they lying about it?
This claims to be a picture of a paper birth certificate. But there are, indeed, layers. Furthermore, parts of it are made with color copying, and parts with black and white copying, so there's no way in hell it wasn't manipulated.
Don't believe it? Try it yourself, you stupid reporter.
There have been dozens upon dozens of threads on this topic. I haven't followed any of them post by post, who could, but i have followed them enough to know that there have been posts by folks who were able to reproduce this weird and crazy behaviour of software, and explain it as much as software behaviour can be explained. (And I've used and written such programs myself.) It's over, I'm afraid, and we're starting to look like kooks on this forum.
It was photocopied onto the green patterned paper (by the government to prevent tampering) and then scanned.
Not that this will convince you, of course.