DRUDGE: Obama's Birth Certificate Composed of Layers??

[RideTheDirt]

Try the following: Save off a copy of the exact PDF file the White House has released as Obama's birth certificate this morning. Find yourself a copy of Adobe Illustrator (not Photoshop), and load up the PDF file in Illustrator. Then click on the center of the image of the birth certificate, then right-click on the center of the image, and click Release Clipping Mask

UUUUMMMM WTF

 

[RideTheDirt]

Anybody have adobe illustrator??

 

[Matthew Zak]

Anybody have adobe illustrator??

Anyone have the PDF?

 

[Jeremy]

Probably just something Illustrator does to it.

edit: And yes, I opened the .gov pdf in Illustrator and you can do exactly what the OP showed. But there's a lot more layers, including random pieces of the writing. That's why it's probably just something Illustrator detects and adds?

edit 2: Yeah, the video shows it.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

need comparisons of other similar documents to see if this is irregular.

 

[marc1888]

Anyone actually give a shit

 

[roho76]

I just checked it out under Illustrator and seems fishy. I actually edited a friends drug test one time to change the dates for his job and it seems like the same thing was done here. I singled out the black type and put them on separate layers so I could cut and paste numbers around. At first glance it seems as though this was the method they used.

Whats fishy is when you look at the Register boxes at the bottom and you hide certain layers only parts of the date are hidden. When I hide the layer fifth from the bottom the date in the bottom right corner hides the Aug-8 and the 6 from the year but the 19_1 still shows up.

I'm not an Adobe software aficionado but I think in order to do this you have to purposely mask this stuff and then separate it to another layer. I don't think Adobe can just automatically separate this stuff into layers, especially in this order. I do know when you copy a document on a scanner and turn it into a PDF it has one layer. If this has been edited why would they not flatten this image before exporting it so it looks like a scanned document with one layer?

Maybe someone with a little more knowledge can let us know.

It also looks like this was photocopied from a book due to the curved edge on the left.

 

[RideTheDirt]

need comparisons of other similar documents to see if this is irregular.

agreed

 

[speciallyblend]

grasping for straws, anyone got a milkshake?

 

[Zippyjuan]

What you are doing is seperating out the different colors of the image of the document. It really says nothing about how the original was produced.

 

[AuH20]

Dennninger is freaking out about the inconsistencies in the document.

http://market-ticker.org/

 

[RideTheDirt]

What you are doing is separating out the different colors of the image of the document. It really says nothing about how the original was produced.

Can you make a video showing this? I want this to be put to rest if it isn't true.

 

[Stary Hickory]

I kinda doubt that this is significant. I am glad the issue is resolved, at least he had to make the gesture. Despite all the hardships and doubt his refusal caused. It's not going to do much good to try and debunk it as a fake, if you were inclined to believe it were fake, you would also recognize there is no way that they would release something that could be debunked with Illustrator.

Not going to be worth the time, he released the long form, there it is. Check it for basics and move on. Next issue please. I am glad it dropped now and not later, all the racist name calling krap will be over and done with and Obama can stand on his broken ideology and broken promises for 2012 elections.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Can you make a video showing this? I want this to be put to rest if it isn't true.

No, I can't make a video. But try it with any document or even a photograph.

Try the following: Save off a copy of the exact PDF file the White House has released as Obama's birth certificate this morning. Find yourself a copy of Adobe Illustrator (not Photoshop), and load up the PDF file in Illustrator. Then click on the center of the image of the birth certificate, then right-click on the center of the image, and click Release Clipping Mask

What a "clipping mask" does:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-644aa.html

About clipping masks
A clipping mask is an object whose shape masks other artwork so that only areas that lie within the shape are visible—in effect, clipping the artwork to the shape of the mask. The clipping mask and the objects that are masked are called a clipping set. You can make a clipping set from a selection of two or more objects or from all objects in a group or layer.

Object-level clipping sets are combined as a group in the Layers panel. If you create layer-level clipping sets, the object on top of the layer clips all of the objects below it. All operations that you perform on an object-level clipping set, such as transformations and alignment, are based on the clipping mask’s boundary, not the unmasked boundary. Once you have created an object-level clipping mask, you can only select the clipped content by using the Layers panel, the Direct Selection tool, or by isolating the clipping set.

 

[roho76]

What you are doing is seperating out the different colors of the image of the document. It really says nothing about how the original was produced.

That's what I thought.

 

[Guitarzan]

LOL...yes, Illustrator will automatically separate a document into layers. Sorry but no silver bullet here.

 

[Stary Hickory]

Problem is its still not the real deal, no doctor or anything listed...I assumed he would have released the real deal. I thought this is what he had released. It's interesting but doesn't really ultimately solve much. Just another piece of paper that can be generated at a registrar easily in Hawaii. I was hoping he had released that form, I am gonna buy Corsi's book. Apparently Obama is trying to derail that. Got me curious now.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Plenty of vids on YouTube on the Illustrator Clipping Mask. Just one:

 

[AdamT]

I work with Illustrator and Photoshop daily. If something is photographed or scanned (like a document) there is only 1 layer, and there can only be 1 layer.

If more then one layer exists, like in this case the lettering, background texture, and the other elements making up the image, it means this image was created or pieced together using Photoshop or some other graphic design program. Unbelievably amateur mistake if they wanted people to think this was an actual photograph or scan of the "original" document.

 

[RideTheDirt]

I work with Illustrator and Photoshop daily. If something is photographed or scanned (like a document) there is only 1 layer, and there can only be 1 layer.

If more then one layer exists, like in this case the lettering, background texture, and the other elements making up the image, it means this image was created or pieced together using Photoshop or some other graphic design program. Unbelievably amateur mistake if they wanted people to think this was an actual photograph or scan of the "original" document.

That's what I thought...