[Claud]

Trusting your gut is fine for the initial hypothesis, but at some point the evidence takes over.

This guy applied the Optimize PDF feature to a scan and got a document that looks an awful like the released BC—layers, clipped text, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdtQ2FU4Ww

The BC is obviously not a simple scan and of course has been manipulated. But is that manipulation due to human forgery, or a software process breaking it up?

If you think “verification doesn’t matter” to me, you don’t know me very well. I’ve spent my adult life digging into data, and I have almost 20 years experience with Photoshop. I’ll go where the evidence leads me.

It’s very simple. Show me why the BC could not have come out of an Optimize PDF function.

[ILS21R]

If you think “verification doesn’t matter” to me, you don’t know me very well. I’ve spent my adult life digging into data, and I have almost 20 years experience with Photoshop. I’ll go where the evidence leads me.

No you won't.

It’s very simple. Show me why the BC could not have come out of an Optimize PDF function.

The Optimize PDF function does not break up a document in such a piecemeal fashion as in Obama's PDF. But keep embarrassing yourself. I'm enjoying it.