Obama's Birth Certificate Was Apparently Manipulated

http://www.whitehouse.gov ^ | 5/3/2011 | Self

[Smedley]

A friend of mine who is a graphic artist opened up the official PDF of Obama's birth certificate with Adobe Illustrator. According to him, and I quote:

"Okay, I finally got my Trial version of Illustrator up and running. I downloaded the wh.gov version of the birth cert. It comes in with (9) "groups" with clipping paths. One clipping path (the one I enclosed) draws a box around the "Non" of "None". The next clipping path surrounds "AUG-8 196" ... and so on. I'm not a kook or anything, but this looks pretty sh***y. I would think a birth cert from 1961 would be a simple xerox of micro-fiche without layers...

[moehoward]

"Take any printed image. Say the certification of mental derangement. Scan it with any desktop scanner and save it as a Tiff file. Then download your trail version of Adobe Acrobat creator. Import the Tiff file into the program, and save it as a .pdf file. Then, download your trial version of Illustrator. Your buddy can give you the web address. Wait three days for it to download through the 28 baud modem. Then install it and import the pdf file. Voila, the certificate of mental derangement is a fraud because it now has layers. This is not a conspiracy. It is a group of folks who do not know how to manage documents in the digital age."

Just a couple of points.
First. Man, talk about taking the long way around.
Second. That scenario would never, never, never, reproduce the anomalies present with the WH version.