Posted on 06/07/2011 6:45:09 PM PDT by conservativegramma
Typeface analysis shows images come from different machines
The online image of a Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" was trumpeted by the White House when it was released on April 27 as "proof positive" that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
Now an expert in typefaces and typography says it sure was "proof," but not of what the White House would have wanted.
Paul Irey, a retired professional typographer with 50 years experience in his business, has says an analysis of the typefaces used in the Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate that the White House released on April 27 reveals it absolutely to be a forgery.
"My analysis proves beyond a doubt that it would be impossible for the different letters that appear in the Obama birth certificate to have been typed by one typewriter," Irey told WND.
"Typewriters in 1961 could not change the size and shape of a letter on the fly like that," he said. "This document is definitely a forgery."
Irey acknowledges that an IBM Selectric typewriter could have produced different typefaces in a given document, but only if the Selectric ball was changed every time a different typeface letter was struck which would be unlikely to have been done to produce the word "Student," for example, that had two different styles of the lower case "t."
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That's what Irey claimed ~ not that there were DIFFERENT FONTS.
There is a clear average size difference ~ it's minute but it is apparent to anyone familiar with the world of manually typewritten records.
You get a worn out electric you can get similar variations, but they'll be more uniformly applied, and the row alignments will be crisper.
One Freeper above mentioned that if this document is actually drawn from a data source, in part, that existed as a microfiche image, the simple act of using that microfiche could have distorted the character images at the margins of visibility.
We have earlier threads that deal with the effect of fixed focal length lenses on documents like this. There's no reason to not go back and read them!
No one has claimed “different fonts” ~ just a very slight difference in apparent size.
I guess 0bama’s abstract is perfectly legit then. So many on the thread are defending every anomaly as normal and natural occurances.
Paul Irey, a retired professional typographer with 50 years experience in his business, has says an analysis of the typefaces used in the Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate that the White House released on April 27 reveals it absolutely to be a forgery.
Thanks for bringing it back to the point. Typefaces.
Though the ending caught me by surprise. I had myself figuring that it would end up being an audio book on his iPod.
There are other parts that are preprinted, or done with rubber stamps ~ I am really bothered that we have so many folks who appear to have no familiarity with the old fashioned sequential numbering machines and daters.
Were they ALL sales reps or what?
No, I would say the anomalies are definitely abnormal.
Based on typefaces not dirt.
There are other parts that are preprinted, or done with rubber stamps ~ I am really bothered that we have so many folks who appear to have no familiarity with the old fashioned sequential numbering machines and daters.
You're obviously bothered by a lot of things but Irey only addressed the typed parts of the document.
Funny thing, they can still be read by the human eye, too. Misshapen, deformed characters, anomalies and all. Doesn’t mean they’re forgeries.
I’m a non-tech person just trying to follow the discussion. Just from what I’ve read it looks fake to me.
Hes a hot lead type kind of guy. I doubt he had much experience with rubber stamps.
If we don’t see things their way we are ‘birthers’ and screwballs or idiots. That does not really matter really though because the muslim boy hussein lovin’ trolls are like that Tiger. They are doing the work of their Daily KOSack comrades or the DUmp’s RATS, or by the DNC itself, to disrupt FR and try to discourage FReepers who wish to see our Country’s Constitution upheld. They fool no one.
And if I don’t see things your way, am I an Obot? A muslim boy hussein lovin troll? A KOSack comrade? Or just a constitution-hating FR disrupter?
He didn’t say anything about rubber stamps. That’s your straw man argument again.
He was always good for a tale or two about the Library of Congress. He related that the major problem was in figuring out how to READ the old stuff so that digitized text in ancient fonts or lead type of all sorts could be read.
I am not an expert in this but the basic idea is that you "read" the text in a number of places to be able to identify the entire data set of all the characters that would be found in the document.
That data set is then matched up with standard OCR programming.
You call up the ancient book, the OCR process clicks in and reads the text in the native fonts just like it was all current and up to date modern standard fonts.
They then associate the full OCR'd text with the visible text, and that enables you to quickly find material in the book while thinking you are reading it in the native printing.
The LOC was then able to do a quick and dirty on a vast number of books where a complete "read" wouldn't be processed except for commonly accessed works. If someone wanted to look at an infrequently read document then the OCR software would do the job for you.
The idea was that eventually everything would be OCRd, but all in due course, and as cheap as possible within the framework of the LOC budget.
Indiana University was in the business of digitizing a vast number of pictures ~ they had one of the world's premiere collections. Yale is doing that with their unique sets. Presumably other universities are doing the same thing.
There the problem is you need a deck of super computers on hand to handle the data stream for compression.
Stick with that.
Maybe not, but a scanner and software to digitize and store it can--and does.
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