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- To: thesearethetimes...; All

I’m looking to have this debunked too. Please if someone can come up with a legitimate reason for the PDF to be a layered file, I want to know it.

860 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:13:37 AM by PowerPro

- To: mike182d; All

A SCANNED PDF DOES NOT HAVE CLIPPING MASKS. PERIOD.

Clipping mask information is only generated by a program like Illustrator or Photoshop and is often retained as part of the file when rendered in PDF.

886 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:24:04 AM by mike182d

- To: mike182d; All

That’s been my experience as well... and yet the file I downloaded has clipping masks and layers.

This must be opened in Illustrator though. It won’t work if you try in Photoshop.

BTW... I anticipate they’ll figure this out quickly and update the PDF to compress it as a single layer.

I’ve downloaded the file though and have the PDF on my system.

887 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:24:59 AM by PowerPro

Thanks for the ping, thouworm.

CORRECTION to my original post. Post #849 below was the initial post on this thread regarding the layering.

To: All

Whoa. I was listening to Rush just now...and he was talking about an email he received from someone who said that this document is an obvious fraud...and here’s how you can check.

Download the PDF from above and open it in Adobe Illustrator, and you can see all the layers showing how the document was pieced together.

So... I did. I downloaded the file...and opened it in Illustrator...and indeed... this document has been pieced together. It’s a layered file. You can click and hide various layers until the screen is blank.

Now... look. I’m tired of this stupid argument. I really am. But as a graphic artist, I can tell you that if someone scanned in an image and saved it as a PDF, it would have been a solid, single layer. The only way that I know of for it to be broken down into layers is if it had been manipulated and created digitally.

Feel free to call me a whatever...but see for yourself if what that person Rush mentioned said is right.

849 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:08:58 PM by PowerPro (Conservative Revolution Reborn! Palin/West 2012)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2711155/posts?page=849#849
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See new aphid post #984 on this thread
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and related thread on layering I previously cross-posted by RED SOUTH

Obama’s Birth Certificate, Dissected
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2711307/posts