[CobaltBlue]

I don't have a problem waiting a day or two for all the professional document examiners to weigh in.

Am on the phone with a man who teaches printing for a living. He says the IBM Composer did not kern. The Varitype machine did kern. Linotype did kern but nobody would use a Linotype for this.

So unless Killian was a professional typesetter using a Varitype, I just don't know.

[js1138]

:>)

[GOPcapitalist]

The document examiners have weighed in -

http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/596astgo.asp

They say that each and every one of these discrepancies in its own right makes the thing improbable.

Now it's time for the statisticians to weigh in and consider them all jointly, and what we know of the law of probability tells us it simply didn't happen. The thing was forged from a word processor.

[lavrenti]

Unless Killian had an obession with typography there was no reason for him to typeset these documents, which if he was using a Varitype, he would be.

Whoever processed this document used the default MSWord margin, character and letter spacing settings and--this really had me cracking up--point/pica paragraph spacing instead of hard "carriage" returns.

I also have a theory on the aging process. I suggest typing the document, printing, then scanning it in, saving as a .pdf document. Then print it out and see what you have. If you're scanner is a little dirty, the document will look like it's been dragged through the mud.

You'll also see some interesting character degradation. I'll leave it at that.