[palmer]

Because they didn't forge the original. The scanned the paper doc mailed to them from Hawaii and then messed around a bit before turning it into the WH PDF. There are plenty of good reasons to do this, but the main one is that it wastes more time on the fringes and makes the goofy look even goofier.

It's not hard at all to figure out that it is pointless to forge a document with wierd layers (e.g. part of a signature in one layer and part in another), but you can easily create the layers from a clean scan with some partial OCR processing.

[Diamond]

The scanned the paper doc mailed to them from Hawaii and then messed around a bit before turning it into the WH PDF.

Whatever the propriety of opening a pdf with Photoshop, the image on the White House website is NOT a simple color scan of a paper document. You are right that they did mess around with it in some way - I think with that green background.
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Cordially,

[ml/nj]

It's not hard at all to figure out that it is pointless to forge a document with wierd layers (e.g. part of a signature in one layer and part in another), but you can easily create the layers from a clean scan with some partial OCR processing.

Since it's so easy, maybe you could give us a demo of your "partial OCR processing." I'd especially like to see how this "partial OCR processing" renders signatures in different resolutions. Sort of like this:

Note: this is an unretouched image. You can duplicate this simply on your own machine by going to http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf. Once the document opens in your browser, specify that you want to view the document at 1000% (10x) magnification in the little dialog box in the toolbar above the document. Then scroll down about 60% and right about 60% to to get to where you can view the Dunham and Sinclair signatures at the same time.

The different size pixels that make up the two different signatures could not occur in a single scan of an original document. This is prima facie evidence of fraud.

ML/NJ

[nikos1121]

Ok, I see where you answered me.

You think someone deliberately altered the document before posting it to get the birther to says it’s forged.

Then why aren’t the so called experts out there saying what you are saying? They say the layering shows the process of constructing the birth certificate.

This is the simplest explanation. Your opinion implies a conpiracy of sorts concocted by the WH.