[Roses0508]

Tab stops? I've done hundreds of forms, and unless I did the same form over and over (can't remember a single incidence offhand), I didn't bother to set the tabs. Just spaced over, released the carriage lock and rolled it up or down to position the data in the right spaces or boxes of the various forms.

I actually typed a good bit of my life and you are correct....unless I did the same form over and over.....but this would have been a form that the clerks typed over and over. You will note that the other BCs viewable on the web all show tab stops. It could be that Obama's BC was typed by someone who only used this form occasionally. Could be.

[Aliska]

I remember there was a lever I pulled forward at the back of the carriage on the rh side. That way I could control the horizontal movement of the carriage from section to section manually in conjunction with the manual vertical rolling, for some models, maybe not all. Every typist I knew did it their own way. Few could be perfect, erasing, correction paper. My how things have changed. Started as a kid on my mom's Smith Corona manual, many at different jobs with different manual models, finally went to electric. I loved the IBM Selectric typewriters the best. But there never was a perfect way to correct typos until computers came along. Much of what I did could have no typos whatsoever which often caused several retypes. So much for that.

I've never put a document together in Adobe .pdf, don't know how yet, and am not familiar with all the different scanning techniques.

Somebody pulled a number on me and had papers of mine they shouldn't. It was in .tiff format and showed up as a single document on the thumbnail but was a large file. I opened it in Photoshop CS2 and it looked strange, very long and narrow, zoomed it up and the aspect ratio was all wrong. What to do? Tried my old Paint Shop Pro, and when I opened, there were 8 or so layered documents underneath flying open on my screen. I know who had it done, but I don't know what scanner or method would have done that. So that's how I found out .tiff can be in layers, too. So much for that.

It's true about the chromatic aberration in color documents, never worked on it or zoomed in with my scanned files because there was no point for my purposes. It was the noise that I could only do so much with; scanners are much better now with that. There are various techniques to get rid of CA, at normal viewing size it isn't noticeable if done well but you can detect the grayscale halos or gradations when zoomed; cleaning further an arduous task unless there is some software than can do it. I saw the Denninger video on that.

So back to the main point, I have no idea what kind of scanner was used on the BC, probably scanned when Hawaii went to the new archival system. The article at the Hawaii paper mentioned that they were printed on the green security paper. Why not just crop it to the margins?

I like puzzling things out, So all the rest of it aside, why put two different documents out there of essentially the same thing? I agree AP only scanned what they got but can't imagine what they started with, maybe layers merged without the security paper layers. I knew something like this would happen if he released it but sure didn't expect layers, assume it's true.