Perhaps someone can post a “negative” of the Aussie BC for all to see what I’m talking about.Took me minute to see what you were seeing... but I understand now.. also notice the (too) straight lines on the rest of it!
NEGATIVE VERSION:
We’ve been looking at the lettering and folds. Some people had a problem with the lettering and folds, but I didn’t see a problem, although I was focusing on the “typed” text.
Something kept drawing my eyes toward the paragraph at the bottom of both documents. The part that states, “I, XXX, Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths”, etc. They do NOT match between the Kenyan and Aussie docs. The wording is the same except for the location but the justification does not match. I’m not sure if that matters, but that’s what I kept looking at for some reason.
Then I remembered that making a negative of an image can sometimes reveal a lot more detail. Think “Shroud of Turin”. So, I downloaded the Aussie BC to my desktop, opened the image in Paint (of all things), reversed the image, and looked at that bottom paragraph.
There it became glaringly obvious to me that the text is simply superimposed over an image of a folded piece of paper.
I highly recommend you try the same. Look at the entire image “reversed”, especially the bottom paragraph and how the entire text just goes right across the creases without any alteration. It’s almost comical.
Perhaps someone can post a “negative” of the Aussie BC for all to see what I’m talking about.
Perhaps someone can post a “negative” of the Aussie BC for all to see what I’m talking about.Took me minute to see what you were seeing... but I understand now.. also notice the (too) straight lines on the rest of it!
NEGATIVE VERSION:
Yes, I noticed this as well. The letters don't undulate with the folds, the way they do in the Kenyan document. It's as if the type is just hovering over the paper--or as if, as you said, the text were simply (computer) pasted onto a picture of the folded paper.
Of course, one reason for the flatness of the type could be that the paper seems to have been smoothed out and flattened, probably by the glass plate of a scanner. The Kenyan BC, on the other hand, is simply lying there on the table with no pressure on it to flatten out the folds.
