[moehoward]

"This PDF did not get where it is by any automatic mechanism. It was pieced together by human hands much the same way that we used to do with X-Acto knives and tape back in the old days."

I spent a few days trying to reproduce anything near the anomalies present on that doc. You are quite correct that it cannot be done by any automatic mechanism.

There is one thing that absolutely proves intentional manipulation though, and that is the presence of cloned characters found in the doc.

BTW 30+ years prepress graphics pro.

[Kleon]

There is one thing that absolutely proves intentional manipulation though, and that is the presence of cloned characters found in the doc.

You don't know what you're talking about. This is a result of the enhanced scan. I've provided examples in the past of the exact same "cloned characters" in other PDFs that were certainly not stitched together, and I can show you more if you'd like.