I'm looking at this PDF.
1. It's obviously a composite of two separate images . . . the stuff from the book, and a background that was made to match the background from the book. So right off the bat it's weird.
2. The text in caps looks like it was cut & pasted into this doc, not added in as vector fonts, because there's a whitish shroud around each letter. If this was the actual text typed into the paper, you'd see it in stark contrast to the background.
3. If this was copied out of a book, as the image would have you believe, I think there'd be more of a "wave" across the breadth of the page, like when you make a scan or a copy of a page from a book.
Granted, I'm looking at this on the web and not looking at an actual physical copy of it, but this sucker looks a bit questionable to me.
2. The text in caps looks like it was cut & pasted into this doc, not added in as vector fonts, because there's a whitish shroud around each letter.Open the doc in a PDF editor (there are freeware versions out there).
That pattern is a water mark; the algorithm avoids 'printing through' the actual letters.
Have you ever gotten a copy of a long form birth certificate? I mean in the past 10 years or so? They photo copy (or perhaps print from a scanned image) the original record onto colored, tamper resistant, paper, not just white copier paper. There is nothing weird about it, it would be weird if they had done something else.
Or perhaps the paper used in the copier has the green hash already on it. Thats what it looks like to me.
The "real" document would be in Hawaii records and always subject to eventual discovery by someone else. If the "real" document either didn't exist, or said something different, there's no way the White House would ever risk photoshopping one. They'd simply have continued stonewalling rather than run the enormous, unnecessary risk of forging an official state document.
This is a different egg entirely from Rathergate, because that was a document produced by Rather from something other than an official source. This is the White House saying this is an exact, certified copy received officially from the state of Hawaii.
Who matched the “bamboo” background of the original document to the PDF’s background? And WHY??
“not added in as vector fonts, because there’s a whitish shroud around each letter.”
I just opened the PDF file and holy cr@p I think you are right.
That white ghosting is around all the letters.
Look at a letter “O” or “C” and you can’t see the security paper.
This looks like chunks of text pasted on the security paper. The text chunks cover the security paper.