But one thing I'll throw out there. I can't look at the layers, but saw a video where you turn off and on the layer with the terminal 1 in the certificate number; some say it's a different font. But that you only have 10 digits to play with.
What I notice about that is that artifacts or bleedthrough are mentioned, some have been discussed. I wonder if the one wasn't on the main document for whatever reason, and the opacity slider was not set at 100% for that layer which caused the bleedthrough, easy to show visually if I could. People who know Photoshop will know what I''m talking about. And there could be some other explanation. An OCR scanner could drop the 1 and mess up other things but don't know what it would do with the handwriting. They're designed to scan text.
Obviously the BC number on factcheck COLB and the number on what was released have to match.
FWIW, it looks like the doctor part is on a separate layer as someone showed on YT.
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'll reserve final judgment until later. Much later. When you're not an expert, someone can convince you of a lot of things one way or another.
Denninger makes some good points. Primarily his "absence of chromatic aberration" argument and the question of where the AP got their version.
Adobe Acrobat (most likely used to reduce file size) can either distill text to imbedded fonts or optimize text to an image. Clearly the later option was chosen. Thing is those chromatic aberrations would remain on the background layer just as they did in the test sample from the National Review.
He sums it up nicely here....
Could I scan an image in color and then make this (chromatic aberration) "go away" in an image program? Probably. Why would you? The intent of the release, remember, is to produce an actual image of a physical document and the claim made was that this was a copy of a physical piece of paper.
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.