It's not that "no forger would have made such a bad mistake," it's that no forger would have made the layered PDF at all.
You tell me.
You have in your possession a high-quality document that says exactly what you want it to say.
Why do you now go and hand construct a LOWER quality document, piece by piece, that says the exact same thing as the HIGH quality document you already have and can use?
Please explain that to me.
Criminals make mistakes all the time.
The fact that we see them is proof of their existence.
The AP LFCOLB, which I think was a print-out of the WH LFCOLB that was then scanned, says nothing as to the authenticity of the WH LFCOLB pdf. The WH LFCOLB has layers that are not OCR or compression/optimization related. I don’t know who put them there or why - but they are indications of human editing.
Unless you can demonstrated a compression process that produces similar results - which I asked you to do in support of your position, but you refuse to - pointing absurdly to the AP LFCOLB as your “proof.”
I think the AP LFCOLB is a print-washed scan of the WH LFCOLB (or a version of it). That is the third time I have said that to you.
Further - the absence of issues in the AP pdf does not explain away those issues in the WH pdf.
Is that clear enough for you?