I also have many years of experience in EDMS and could testify the same. I still have the abomination of a document on a computer here somewhere.
I noticed it first because of the ‘layers’
I was doing imaging software at the time so when I opened an image file my default program was Photoshop. (not just the ‘viewer’- the actual image editing software)
I immediately saw layers, which seemed odd. And I could see that the layers turned on/off different sections of the text, and UNDERNEATH you could see the security paper. Not possible if the document is scanned, only possible if the security papers is scanned first, then the text added later.
If they had ‘compressed’ the final product into one layer then a lot of this could be argued about. It would still be obvious to someone who worked with images, but harder to explain to the general public.
And the next day a dumb guy lied that it was ‘OCR’ and the media and everyone glommed onto that as an excuse for the layers.
Later, Zullo’s ‘posse’ (yes, an actual legal entity in AZ) found the source documents (the documents they copied FROM), from a document 3 days different from this forgery.
A statistical impossibility for it not to be a forgery at that point. It’s almost like finding a set of fingerprints that match yours, from someone living 3 houses down.
SIDE NOTE: They claim Obama could not be Malcolm X’s son because the birthdate does not match the dates within 9 months of when his mom was with Malcom X. But I don’t think we know his real birth date.
I once put together a montage of Obama and Malcolm X’s photos and asked people to pick out which ones were Obama and which were Malcolm X.
Nearly everyone claimed some of them were Obama.
The kicker- they were ALL Malcolm X.