Then I believe he is wrong. The odd effects around the letters appear to be characteristic of jpgs and pdfs of scanned printed documents, rather than documents created in soft copy by a graphics program.
If I had the ability to create screenshots I’d post samples, but if you take a graphics program, fill in a textured background, then type on it, zooming in gives jaggy letters with background colors infiltrating the letter.
Zooming in on a scanned document gives the fuzzy letter edges seen in the blow ups of the web version of the certificate.
Try it yourself. I zoomed in on a scanned jpg version of a university transcript, and observed the same halo of greyish and whitish pixels surrounded the letters once one zoomed in enough, distorting the textured background just as in the Obama certificate. They were also in evidence upon zooming on in a scanned pdf version of a medical form with a plain white background. On the other hand, I couldn’t get anything like them to appear by typing on a texture background in a graphics program, then zooming in. Instead, the letters were infiltrated by the background colors, an effect not seen in the details of the Obama certificate.
Perhaps our FReeper with a Hawaiian grandson can check the border to see whether the pattern on the corner of a genuine certificate has the patched together look that the Obama certificate exhibits.
Well, considering the lower border intersections are not aligned on this doc, but they are on the version from Fightthesmears (Obama’s site), I’m pretty confident this is a fraud.