[not_apathetic_anymore]

Author is an expert in digital typesetting and has many enlarged examples

[RJL]

Thanks for the link, very good info at the site.

[Ides of March]

This article is impressive, as is his resume.

Note the most compelling item that everybody else missed is the "fr" example, if you make it that far in the article, quoted below.

"Examine carefully the “fr” in the word “from” in the 18-August-1973 memo. The “r” is tucked under the “f” in the same way a Microsoft font does it. In 1972, technology available in the office, including proportional typewriters, could not do this.

[FredZarguna]

If these memos were produced in 1972 and 1973, it would be easier to believe that a time traveller [sic] did it than to believe that it is sheer coincidence.

Juan Williams on Special Report tomorrow night: "I can't believe what I'm hearing! An independent expert has already proved that a time traveler typed these memos for Mr. Killian! Back off, Fred! Back off, Mort! I'm sick of the right wing propaganda!"

[stands2reason]

I've contacted the mod to add a note to the title that this is a nonpartisan expert's opinion.

[tophat9000]

Big (zot! CBS!) bump

[drwiii]

[tophat9000]

DoU!

[Mark]

[sweetliberty]

It just keeps getting deeper. We're gonna need hip waders diving suits pretty soon.

[cpurick]

"nonpartisan?"

Sorry, if you're after the truth, the other side will label you partisan indeed!

[VadeRetro]

The probability that any technology in existence in 1972 would be capable of producing a document that is nearly pixel-compatible with Microsoft’s Times New Roman font and the formatting of Microsoft Word, and that such technology was in casual use at the Texas Air National Guard, is so vanishingly small as to be indistinguishable from zero.

This should be considered the master refutation for typological issues. It needs to be linked, sent, passed on everywhere as needed.

[delacoert]

Microsoft Word by default does not kern text. The text of the memo is not kerned.

I hope this puts an end to the kerning discussion.

[vanburen]

Other facts here

[slimer]

Thank you sincerely Mr. Newcomer

[GaryL]

Incredible article! Who could possibly refute this man? I'd say this is "checkmate!"

[js1138]

Some have argued that the documents are forgeries because the characters are “kerned”. Kerning is an operation which tucks characters together to compact space. However, Microsoft Word by default does not kern text. The text of the memo is not kerned. Kerning is a pairwise operation between characters, and each character pair that can be kerned has a specified kerning value. Microsoft fonts and many others come with accompanying kerning data. But kerning is complex, and computationally expensive, and therefore would have slowed down redisplay in a WYSIWYG editor. However, Times New Roman uses a characteristic of Microsoft TrueType fonts called the ABC dimensions, where the C dimension is the offset from the right edge of the bounding box of the character to the next character. If this offset is negative, the character with the negative C offset will overlap the character which follows (in some technologies, the distance from the start of one character to the start of another is called the “escapement”, so a negative C offset gives an escapement which is less than the character width). This gives the illusion of kerning, or what I sometimes call “pseudo-kerning”.

OK guys. This explains a lot. FReepers have been arguing for days that the CBS documents are kerned. I have been biting my tongue because I saw what I thought were obvious instances where the CBS documents were not kerned. Yet FReepers and others wer able to point out instances where something more sophisticated than proportional spacing occurred.

Now hold on. This is a bumpy ride. The forged documents and the MSWord documents are "pseudo-kerned". This is an automatic feature of True-Type. Another thread has a former Apple programmer discussing the invention of True-Type. The ultimate point is that The forged documents are typeset using a letter spacing technology that was not invented until 1989. Not only was it not invented until 1989, but it is patented. No one but a True-Type licencee (read Microsoft) can produce the CBS documents.

End of discussion.

[FreedomPoster]

Worthwhile addition to the already massive weight of evidence on this one.

[js1138]

This is highly technical, but it is the most important thread yet in this series. I recommend you go back and find the people who were interested in the technical discussion in earlier threads and ping them.

[SkyPilot]

Boy--that was thorough. What an education.

Time for FOX News and CNN to stop saying "alleged" forgeries and say FORGERIES.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hock, line, and sucker!

Have you invited the author to review our collection of threads?