The date on the bottom of that document is 4/25/2011. The copy was made before the press gaggle (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/27/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-4272011 ) ; the copies were stapled together (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html ) Strange that there aren’t any staple marks on the photo. The PDF wasn’t made until 12:11:23PM on 4-27 - almost exactly 2 minutes after the long-form PDF was made. It has the same properties as the long-form (Mac OS x 10.6.7 and PDF Version 1.3)
They created that page on the computer in order to print it out with the headers. But the PDF was not created on the Mac until after the gaggle.
The whitehouse.gov site doesn’t have a copy of the long-form printout they made for the press. And for good reason. That can’t be a scan in black and white, because the cross-hatches at the far left got picked up in the scan. But just on the top part of the page. There is a clear line where the BC portion stops and the certification portion - with no cross-hatches - begins. That can’t be explained by a photocopier/scanner, even if the copier/scanner was set to black/white. And especially it can’t be explained if the scan was set to be so sensitive that it picked up print from a page behind the page being scanned but didn’t pick up any of the cross-hatches in the certification portion of the copy.
That “white copy” of the long-form is a dead giveaway of funny business because it has a distinct line where the cross-hatches end.
I did some experimenting with contrast and brightness on what I know to be a scan of a genuine HDOH vital record, as well as on the White House image. When it is set to black-and-white there are NO cross-hatches that show up on either one. Anywhere. No matter what contrast I use.
When it’s not in black and white, I can use constrast and brightness to get the cross-hatches to turn a light yellow, but some of the print also disappears when I do that. Of course, that’s especially difficult with the White House image because I can’t get most of the print to show up in Word anyway. Most of the letters are white. This is the only document I have EVER had that happen with.
On that Hawaii short form that someone sent you. Is the seal debossed or embossed? From the image you posted the writing in the seal is in the correct orientation on the side where the registrar stamp is and that appears to be on the back of the document.