Posted on 09/11/2004 9:15:10 AM PDT by cpurick
Simple question. It seems obvious to me that the forgeries were not created on a typewriter. I have my doubts that a typewriter could have produced such perfect proportional spacing, and the MS Word workarounds (i.e. "9921 st") are blatant. Plus, of course, there's no accounting for why this small sample of documents would be the only ones produced by such an advanced process.
Anyway, can anyone explain why the "th" in "187th" (the 18 AUG 73 "Memo to file") is superscripted with a different alignment than Times New Roman 12-pt?
For example, Word aligns the top of the superscript w/ the top of the letters, while the memo has the top of the superscript above the letters. This is pretty obvious in animations. Any theories on how this was done?
This is not the case. The "th" is clearly above the top of the numerals both in the screen font and in my printed font (HP LaserJet 1200).
There are also military jargonistic problems with the 'memo'.
That is the difference between a "screen shot" and a "print out".
The rendering seems to be slightly different with the superscript.
There are animations and overlays out now that compare the original memos to the printed version, and they are perfect.
Also Staudt retired in '72 and the memo refering to him was dated '73....
That isn't a different alignment, it's standard font superscripted and thus 'shrunk' in size.
Looks really weird, agreed, but rather obvious.
Any typewriter I had that had a 'th' key had the 'th' stylised similar to italics.
(To use the 'th' key on that typewriter you had to hit the 'half shift' key.)
Besides the obvious problems with the lettering itself, the addresses are suspicious.
"P.O. box 34567"??
How much more obvious does it have to be for someone to notice it's faked?
That's liek a phony telephone number "1-800-123-4567"
WordPerfect 11 maybe..
< Democrat Idiocy>
So it took him a long time to finish the memo! You've never procrastinated????
< /Democrat Idiocy>
That address was lifted from an authentic document, released by Bush sometime before January of this year.
http://www.cis.net/~coldfeet/doc7.gif <-- See for yourself
The forger took this address (which was given as being for Bush's TexANG unit) and used it for the typed letterhead.
You have it backwards about where the th appears with Microsoft Word. Trying to muddy the waters a little??
Someome here thursday had a word program that matched the document exactly. I don't know what version or what options they used to do it.
It is possible to change the font size or face for a few characters in the middle of a document.
For example, say we are using 12 pt Times New Roman as used in the forgeries. We have a superscript character<s) that we want to alter its appearance, we could simply change the super scripted character(s) to 10 point type or any other size.
111th
Word 2000, Times New Roman 26pt.
On one thread, someone created the Word file, created a PDF file of it and the "th" matched up almost perfectly. So I believe the difference is that you are comparing a Word document to CBS's PDF file of a word document.
In order to have the superscripts align perfectly, you have to print out both docs.
Your average printer can't duplicate the DPI on your computer screen so the superscript is adjusted by the printer for 600 DPI.
The forgery was printed out and run through a copier a few times to "age" it....and then scanned to PDF so what you see in the CBS PDF is actually a picture of the printed version.
The "th" superscript (placed there automatically, by the way) was slightly above the number on the screen. The printed version, however, was higher, and identical to the forgery.
Anybody who's been around military officers know they would never express themselves in such informal language in a memo that concerned official business. They just don't write in that colloquial fashion. Military types are extremely laconic, knowing that words used loosely can be harmful to themselves or others. The very precise use of language is very important in the services and they wouldn't write like a junior clerk in a commercial enterprise.
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