Posted on 04/27/2011 10:24:09 AM PDT by piytar
The question for me is:
If I scan something ELSE in as a PDF, does it create layers? If so, this could be a non-issue.
Software sometimes does funny stuff.
Oh the tangled web we weave
When we practice to deceive . . .
The more that is released, the more it stinks
The pdf I downloaded from your WH link has a create time of 7:09:24 a.m. today, a PDF PRoducer: MAX OS X 10.6.7 Quartz PDF Context
The question is: what scanning software was used? Does that scanning software have some sort of built in OCR capabilities that looks for layers of text and tries to separate them before combining as a PDF?
The answer is in the software. If that scanning software can’t produce layers, then it is fake. If it can, oh well. That’s just the way the scanning software works.
It’s nothing. The software used to create the PDF (Mac OSX 10.6.7 Quartz PDFContext) has been known to create layers during automatic processing, especially if someone tried to turn OCR on.
ML/NJ
It wouldn't show malfeasance.
If this is the real BC then why was there such a problem in releasing it years ago? If the document is in fact layered then it is without question doctored.
Believe me, many of us “birthers” are tired, but of the shenanigans and lies. We will not tire until this phony is exposed.
This might be the answer right here.
Very nice find.
Anti-aliasing around only one “1”?
I don’t think so.
I downloaded the file from the White House site. I opened it in two different non-adobe graphics programs on windows and it had no extra layers.
Adobe products are complicated and weird (and good.) But they handle files in their own way and probably themselves are responsible for any extraneous layers introduced into the file.
My $.02.
I don’t know if the layering is significant.
However I think the (apparently) digitally inserted ‘1’ that many FReepers have spotted is very suspicious.
It would be a very odd scanning artefact that turned the last character of a line of type (only) into a perfectly word-processed character. Need to see if its possible with the scanning software used, but it looks very wrong.
It’s nothing. The software used to create the PDF (Mac OSX 10.6.7 Quartz PDFContext) has been known to create layers during automatic processing, especially if someone tried to turn OCR on.
That said though... there are a few layers that don’t make sense in that regard.
The second group down looks to be where the “seal” might be.
At the bottom of the list, the last clipping path removes grit from the sides of the page.
Also... some of the handwriting is layered, and some not.
BTW... I’m relieved by your post. I really want to see a legitimate reason for a layered file.
That said, it would have been nice if the person scanning it in had bothered to flatten it before posting.
A question: The letter “I” in “Hussein”, section 1B, and the second “I” in section 1C, “II” are the same, yet the first “I” in section 1C, “II” is radically different. Is this a common phenomenon in typeset circa 1961?
If it does turn out to be the Buckhead-style clue that destroys the Obama presidency, Hootowl gets the credit :0)
(Though I’m sure many FReepers have spotted it by now. It really is extremely obvious)
Question.
Why wouldn’t OCR save the recognized text as text? Isn’t that the point of OCR? The layers we see are images with clipping paths.
Or does it see it as text but only in Acrobat Pro Reader?
Really? Please elaborate??
Anyone think Zero is enjoying this?
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