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President Obama's Birth Certificate PDF has "Layers"
Wire Update ^ | April 27, 2011 | Wire Update

Posted on 04/27/2011 1:18:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters

When the PDF file given from WhiteHouse.gov is opened in Adobe Illustrator it shows up in different layers.

Our analysis of the latest controversy: The original birth certificate was probably in a ‘negative’ form, and someone at the White House took it upon themselves to doctor it up so the form can be readable.

Previously from BNO News: Obama releases long form birth certificate to end debate

National Review:

The PDF is composed of multiple images. That’s correct. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc. But these layers, as they’re being called, aren’t layers in the traditional photo-editing sense of the word. They are, quite literally, pieces of image data that have been positioned in a PDF container. They appear as text but also contain glyphs, dots, lines, boxes, squiggles, and random garbage. They’re not combined or merged in any way. Quite simply, they look like they were created programmatically, not by a human.

What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner. Let’s leave it at that.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; naturalborncitizen; obamasfault; obamateur
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Well, good luck getting anything other than more stupidity out of that.


21 posted on 04/27/2011 1:32:55 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: RobinMasters
Here is some info on how/why .pdf scanned docs will have layers. There are two reasons, OCR- Optical Character Recognition and MRC- Mixed Raster Content. The former explains the text layers, the latter explains the image itself broken into layers as well as what some call the “white out” look. There are even image samples in the second link that are almost exact mirror images of that “white out” effect.

http://blog.nitropdf.com/index.php/2008/09/10/text-works-ocrd-scanned-pdf-files/
http://image.unb.br/queiroz/papers/icip08mrc.pdf

I suggest studying these before continuing this line of ‘proof’ regarding the layers.

22 posted on 04/27/2011 1:32:57 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: RobinMasters
woops here it IS! span>http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4346/picture34dc.png




OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE SOROS BARACK OBUMMER and the rest of the "progressive" COMMUNIST movement perhaps MILLIONS of us have ALREADY downloaded the FRAUDULEN certificat of Jive Fabircation and WE DARE YOU to remove the original form the site upon which its been hosted ITS ON!
23 posted on 04/27/2011 1:34:40 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: RobinMasters

NO WATERMARK??

like on this one..

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/this-is-a-hawaii-birth-certificate/


24 posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:32 PM PDT by VU4G10
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To: Revolting cat!

The admin has put out that the COLB was scanned from a book held in the HI dept of health. That explains the dark edge that is an obvious curling down of the page. Some stupid staffer could be used to explain the faked boarder. The layers then can not be explained.


25 posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:39 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: RobinMasters
This explains why it looks fake. It is fake!
26 posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: BenLurkin
It is a tar baby.

That it is. A tempting tar baby.

27 posted on 04/27/2011 1:37:33 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Sophia777

Unfortunately the Nordyke twins also have that same Hospital name listed on their birth certificates. So, we’ll have to let that one go!


28 posted on 04/27/2011 1:37:40 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: RobinMasters
Our analysis of the latest controversy: The original birth certificate was probably in a ‘negative’ form, and someone at the White House took it upon themselves to doctor it up so the form can be readable.

This makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL!

According to their letter, the WH requested two copies of the document; and then Hawaii supplied something. If the thing they supplied was a negative image, and printed on safety paper, then the color of the safety paper would no longer have been green.

The fact is that the WH image looks a lot like the Booth BC image recently circulated. This was also a natural image printed on safety paper. I doubt the Booth BC image was manipulated from a negative.

ML/NJ

29 posted on 04/27/2011 1:40:36 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: TruthHound
“This is going to get very interesting.”

No, it's not.

It's going to be more retardation and blind emotion from Birthers who simply will never be satisfied with anything that doesn't fit their personal narratives.

Narratives that they cannot even agree on.

30 posted on 04/27/2011 1:41:03 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: chainsaw
Something like this:

he PDF is composed of multiple images. That’s correct. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc. But these layers, as they’re being called, aren’t layers in the traditional photo-editing sense of the word. They are, quite literally, pieces of image data that have been positioned in a PDF container. They appear as text but also contain glyphs, dots, lines, boxes, squiggles, and random garbage. They’re not combined or merged in any way. Quite simply, they look like they were created programmatically, not by a human. What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner. Let’s leave it at that.

31 posted on 04/27/2011 1:43:01 PM PDT by yoe
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To: Sophia777
"Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital didn't change the name until Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital merged with Kapi‘olani Maternity Home in 1978."

I strongly suggest someone get sceeen shots of these sites before they are cleansed.

I can't - my computer keeps hanging on the sites.

32 posted on 04/27/2011 1:43:43 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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To: El Sordo

Well. El Sordo, please explain the TXE instead of THE in onaka’s “stamp.”


33 posted on 04/27/2011 1:44:15 PM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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To: RobinMasters
Repeating a question I asked on a similar thread...

What if it is deliberate?

I'm no expert on the issues brought up by others regarding "layers' and other inconsistencies in the document. But if true, they are too "amateurish" for someone with the resources of the White House behind them.

So, my question is what if these artifacts are deliberate? The White House has to know the document is going to get intense scrutiny and these things will be revealed.

Perhaps this was done intentionally to keep the controversy alive, the media continuing to ridicule the "birthers" and elements of the Republican party divided.

34 posted on 04/27/2011 1:45:01 PM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Fake like boobs on a Hooters girl !


35 posted on 04/27/2011 1:45:56 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: RobinMasters

RAISED SEAL: Has any reporter passed his fingers over the long form birth certificate and felt a RAISED seal? Thanks.


36 posted on 04/27/2011 1:46:02 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: El Sordo
"Birther stupidity has no end, does it?"

Yep, it took 2 & 1/2 years to produce a document that could and should have been made public long, long ago. No suspicion here, don't you know it takes everybody over 2 years to produce their birth certificate? Have you ever asked the question why it took Mr. Hussein Obama so long to get this document out in the open, or why, for unknown 'personal' reasons this tightwad, cheap bastard would spend millions of his own dollars trying to keep it secret?

IN any case, "Birther" is an invented word, concocted by liberal character assassins and applied by their goons in the media the way terrorists apply IEDs.

But hey, what does it really matter if a constitutionally unqualified man sits in the White House and destroys our nation day-by-day; why worry about the lies and coverups that helped gain him the Oval Office? We can remove him two more years anyway, long after he's destroyed the American economy and made slaves of us all to government tyranny and eternal debt. What, me worry Constitutional qualifications?? Nah, I'm like you, I relate to Alfred E. Newman.

37 posted on 04/27/2011 1:50:04 PM PDT by jiminycricket000
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To: MestaMachine
Dunno.

One possible explanation: Maybe, just maybe, Birthers haven't learned a damned thing about the utter futility in drawing conclusions from electronic images?

38 posted on 04/27/2011 1:51:52 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: Sophia777

Does that mean the released “official” birth certificate has the name the hospital did not have until years later?


39 posted on 04/27/2011 1:52:46 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“We can now call him Obama al-Parfait. He’s complicated because he has layers that are deeply hidden.”

Naw, he’s more like an onion. He’s got lots of layers and he brings a tear to your eye for the things he has done (and is doing) to our once great country.


40 posted on 04/27/2011 1:53:20 PM PDT by RickB444 (Worry about and distrust anyone who fears a lawful person owning a gun.)
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