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

I just examined the PDF in Illustrator and there are a least a dozen clipping paths (which have been grouped into at least 9 groups), reminiscent of having used a layered Photoshop file to create the paths to begin with (was likely exported from PS to the PDF file we all have). The very fact there is even a single clipping path screams tampering so loudly it's pretty much laughable, nevermind there are a lot of them which are then grouped haha...and will surely add fuel to the whole Birther controversy.

When you take a photograph or make a scan there is not a single clipping path. Someone took time to create the paths, whether as a result of a layered Photoshop document while building the fake document, or having separating an original flattened photo/scan into a layer/pathed PDF based on the various elements. Very odd.

Whatever CIA image manipulator created this work of art should be fired lol.

Hmmm I don't know this sounds crazy. Are you sure this would not naturally just be like that?
 
Just talked to a few friends who know about these things better than I, who happen to have voted for Obama, they now think the documents are faked or altered.
 
does anyone have original whitehouse PDF? I downloaded one opened in photoshop and I only see one layer. Did they fix the file or something? By the way there is a photo of the real piece of paper out there too. It looks legit. I think that there was just some kind of weird scanning technique used. I was gonna open it up here at home to see but the link I got from whitehouse.org now seems to be fixed in that there is only one layer. I'd like to take a look for myself.
 
does anyone have original whitehouse PDF? I downloaded one opened in photoshop and I only see one layer. Did they fix the file or something? By the way there is a photo of the real piece of paper out there too. It looks legit. I think that there was just some kind of weird scanning technique used. I was gonna open it up here at home to see but the link I got from whitehouse.org now seems to be fixed in that there is only one layer. I'd like to take a look for myself.
Apparently you need Adobe Illustrator, not Photoshop.
 
Doesn't Adobe acrobat automatically create layers as a result of its text recognition capabilities? It has to separate out the text from graphics somehow. And I know it does that ---- That lib may be on to something --- Just a thought.
TMike
 
Doesn't Adobe acrobat automatically create layers as a result of its text recognition capabilities? It has to separate out the text from graphics somehow. And I know it does that ---- That lib may be on to something --- Just a thought.
TMike

I think something like this happened. I am no expert with illustrator nor do I copy stuff or scan a lot. But for sure it has to be the case here, it automatically divides it.
 
From a Smoking Gun piece:

"I just checked the official web site for Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital and according to the information there, the name of the hospital at the time of his birth should have been Kauikeolani Children's Hospital. According to the web site the name didn't change to Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until Kauikeolani Children's Hospital merged with Kapi‘olani Maternity Home in 1978. So how could his official long form birth certificate that was generated in 1961 have the name of the hospital that wasn't created until 1978?"

Anybody else want to look into this? I gotta go soon.
 
BTW I never used Drudge but if he really linked to this thing he is nothing but tabloid journalism.
 
Plenty of vids on YouTube on the Illustrator Clipping Mask. Just one:



Ummm....I'm no Adobe Illustrator but...that video is obviously of two separate objects. It does not at ALL help answer the question of whether a single scanned image will be automatically broken up into layers by color.
 
I just grabbed the first vid I found on layer masks. People are still basically trying to do chemical (digital) analysis on the copy of something to prove or disprove the original which is not going to work anyways.
 
Yeah. Based on the "OCR" theory. But why would you do OCR on a 1 page birth certificate?

Not sure, this is what I am wondering. I have scanned papers before, they look great NOT doing all this crazy stuff to it. Obviously releasing something where the text can be removed layer by layer is going to raise eyebrows. If this were proof of ownership of say official stocks, treasuries or anything else, and you got this kind of scan from the seller showing you he has the certificate you would run the other way.

Just plain dumb.
 
GUYS

I just opened the file in AI.. and am VERY surprised to what I'm seeing... this think is DOCTORED to all hell! Let me see if I can do a few screen caps to show...
 
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