Expert: Obama doc is 'proof' – of fraud

World Net Daily ^ | June 7, 2011 | Jerome R. Corsi

[conservativegramma]

Typeface analysis shows images come from different machines

The online image of a Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" was trumpeted by the White House when it was released on April 27 as "proof positive" that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

Now an expert in typefaces and typography says it sure was "proof," but not of what the White House would have wanted.

Paul Irey, a retired professional typographer with 50 years experience in his business, has says an analysis of the typefaces used in the Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate that the White House released on April 27 reveals it absolutely to be a forgery.

"My analysis proves beyond a doubt that it would be impossible for the different letters that appear in the Obama birth certificate to have been typed by one typewriter," Irey told WND.

"Typewriters in 1961 could not change the size and shape of a letter on the fly like that," he said. "This document is definitely a forgery."

Irey acknowledges that an IBM Selectric typewriter could have produced different typefaces in a given document, but only if the Selectric ball was changed every time a different typeface letter was struck which would be unlikely to have been done to produce the word "Student," for example, that had two different styles of the lower case "t."

[LucyT]

So either Guthrie is lying about the seal ( and if she is, why would she lie and who told her to do so ), or there is a seal on the copy Guthrie saw. If this is the case, it CANNOT be a seal from Hawaii since that document would have had to have been created from the PDF document back at the White House-

Check out graphics, and comment at # 731 for further analysis.

Thanks, TheCipher. Good work.

[Freeper]

IBM Selectric typewriters DID NOT EXIST in 1961.

[Freeper]

Maybe I am wrong but didn’t those typewriters that used the “ball” come out in the late 70’s or 80’s?

Actually 1964. The IBM Selectric II 'was almost' out of production in the 1980's.

[RobinOfKingston]

So what is the difference between kerning and proportional spacing?

Proportional spacing is merely assigning as much space as a letter needs to place it in a given area a "W" needs more space than an "i."

In a computer font, kerning is accomplished by making a "kerned pair." "Wi" as a kerned pair would be drawn by the font maker as one entity. When "With" is typed, the word processor program substitutes the kerned "Wi" for the separate "W" and "i." This tucks the "i" in closer and under the rightmost diagonal component of the "W." Makes the word and document more appealing to the eye.

This process was common in typesetting prior to computer word processors, but was simply beyond anything a typewriter could handle.

I am not an expert in any of this, but some years ago had a very intense interest in fonts and different appearing alphabets. I even made several fonts, which I use in my own computer to this day. Spent lots of time reading about how alphabets were made over the centuries, and how fonts have been made since the computer came on the scene.

[Aliska]

I thought this thread was deader than the dodo ;-).

Thank you for answering my question. I spent time on a fonts list, and they talked about kerning all the time, but I thought it had to do with the design of the individual characters, the extra feet, I think there is a word for that, too. Guess it's serifs and sans serifs.

So essentially, kerning is about aesthetics and fitting some letters together more closely than others to please the eye. I'll think of it that way.

I'm interested in fonts for their artistic merit; everyone's tastes are different, but knowledgeable people would id fonts for me (and others), and I'd see if I could find a free version. That was for my pc, and now I don't bother collecting them so far with the Mac. I can't think of the name of an all caps font I liked to use, Typographer's something. Then I found a really nice calligraphy font I used a lot.

I picked up a book about design and making them but haven't tried to make any of my own, can't do everything. I still get a newsletter from the Scriptorium where there are lots of fonts designed from old type faces but haven't bought any for a long time.

You may not be an expert, but you're far more knowledgeable than I.

[RobinOfKingston]

I spent a lot of time poking around the Scriptorium looking for inspiration. They do very good work, and have some amazing old source documents they use as patterns to make fonts from.

If you are interested in making fonts, I suggest you take a look at this site http://www.high-logic.com/. A program called Font Creator is available there. I bought it years ago and used it lots. As I remember, it was a pretty economical program.

Another site to look to for inspiration and free fonts is http://www.aimwell.org/index.html. This fellow is a Buddhist monk who makes fonts and provides them free to folks like us. Not for commercial use.

God bless!

[Aliska]

I spent a lot of time there, too, once upon a time. That one font name is bugging me. It's on a passport backup.

Thanks for the links, just poking around and found my Mac fonts folder, like the way they display samples with the font name.

Just when I think I have no need to create a font, maybe I will, my handwriting, my chicken scratch printing, you think like every font worth using has already been designed and distributed.

My son just sent me a new vid to watch ALL THE WAY THROUGH. He's really into the economy, deflating the dollar, TARP, QE1, QE2, the whole nine yards, so I suppose I'd better prepare for more gloom and doom.

I sent him a heads up from two threads today, and he sent it to his inner circle. Scary S***. God Bless you, too!

P.S. I'll watch that video tomorrow, getting sleepy.

[Aliska]

I found that font, tons of them here, really cool graphics FX, calligraphy, really fun to look at, too tired to code the link right.

http://www.google.com/search?q=typographers+font&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xggITv79NJKqsAKN1vznDQ&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1323&bih=968

The font I liked so well and have used in graphics projects is called TypographersCaps, found it on about page 3 of above link. If that's too much, just google typographers font and look at the first page of results, several images in a row.

The typocaps one is here:

http://www.graffwriter.com/free_graffiti_fonts/onefont.php?fontname=TypographerCaps

Said royalty free, guess I've got it installed on my Mac now. Tomorrow I'll look for the calligraphy font.