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To: mills044
Check post #78 - it illustrates the problem with looking at close ups of computer images - depending on how they are saved (most particularly the colour depth and compression algorithm used) colours when you zoom in will change - that is easily enough to explain why text may look the way you describe.)

If you want to check it out for yourself, print a document, scan it, fold it or even crumple it, spread it out, scan it and then save the image in a variety of formats (especially GIF and JPG) then zoom in on the same locations on the documents. You'll see pretty rapidly that you don't get the same results on different type of scans. Unless a great deal of care is taken, any scanned image is just an approximation of the original image - good enough when viewed normally, but when you zoom in, you'll see a lot of odd artifacts.

85 posted on 09/15/2009 5:04:18 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

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129 posted on 09/15/2009 7:02:48 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: naturalman1975
Check post #78 - it illustrates the problem with looking at close ups of computer images - depending on how they are saved (most particularly the colour depth and compression algorithm used) colours when you zoom in will change - that is easily enough to explain why text may look the way you describe.)

It's not the same issue. The writing, including both printed and handwritten, on the Bomford certificate does not follow the wrinkles in the paper. That can be seen at no or moderate "zoom" levels in the full sized document. It's easier to see if you reverse the colors on the image, but it's there in the original as well.

Also there were issues with the handwritten material being overwritten by the printed, rather than the other way around.

Another thing that bothered people about the Bomford image was that it was put up not long before the "red couch" "Kenyan" image, and then taken down as soon as the match with the "Kenyan" one was "discovered". This lead some to believe that it was questionable. One theory was that both were fake, as the "Kenyan" surely is, and the whole thing was a trap, which many fell into.

217 posted on 09/15/2009 3:14:24 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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