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One other possibility: The HI officials say it was a photocopy of a page from a book on safety paper. What if the photocopier was a black and white one? That could explain the lack of chromatic aberration.

Yes, that was also my assumption.

I’m pinging cartan in case he (she?) has anything else to add on this.

He :-) I don’t think examining this PDF any further is going to get us anywhere. People have been analyzing it for days now, and as far as I can see, the issues that have been found have perfectly innocuous explanations. There is certainly nothing in this PDF that makes it an obvious forgery, unlike the Dan Rather / Mary Mapes memos. Even if anybody is going to uncover something that cannot be explained at all except through photo-shopping, it is going to be so subtle that hardly anybody is going to be convinced by it. Do you remember how hard it was even with the Killian memos? Those were obvious forgeries; obvious to everybody with the slightest knowledge of typesetting at least, or anybody who ever used a typewriter, and it was still hard to convince those who didn’t want to be convinced. (Liberals seriously suggested some guy in an army office 40 years ago wrote memos to himself on special typesetting equipment that was hideously expensive, was absolutely unknown at the time, and could write in a proportional font typeface identical to that of Microsoft Word. Nuts!) I think Dan Rather and Mary Mapes still believe the documents were real. So, I think this isn’t going to get anywhere.

piytar: Ping to Post 205.

I don’t think examining this PDF any further is going to get us anywhere.

I'm pretty much to that point also, unless some new information on their process comes out.

If the "natural born citizen" aspect has solid merit legally (some say yes, some say no), that's a content issue. Debunking Obama's phony campaign biography and revealing his true story has use. Running against Obama on what he has done and will do in office has the most value.