[butterdezillion]

I’m a computer moron so I don’t know if this means anything or not but I’m interested to see if it’s the same for other people. I right-clicked on the image at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf to select the whole thing and clicked “Copy”. Then I pasted it into Word.

All that shows up in black are the signatures, ledger lines, and pencil marks. Everything that is supposedly typed or stamped just shows as white. Oh - and the last digit of the BC# shows up as black.

Anybody know what’s up with that? Do you get the same results?

[Blogger]

Yes. I get the same results.

[NoGrayZone]

I zoomed the “BC” to 800. Look at the S in Stanley, box #13, then look at the S in Student, box #12a.

The S in Stanley is a different font (flat top/bottom and blurry)and the S in Student is curved, both top and bottom.

[Balding_Eagle]

That’s because a .pdf file is an Adobe document, and won’t open properly in Word.

[Yaelle]

I’m thinking this is just an abstract. The dept of health just printed, with today’s machinery, the form and details, and somehow copied the signatures over. That this is not any kind of photo copy of the original.

Would be interesting to see if this is truly all you get these days when you ask for a legal copy of your long form from HI.

[NJ_Tom]

I just took the JPEG image of the long form released in March of 2011 from WND's page. I pasted the image into Word, then used Word's "save as PDF" function to convert it to a PDF file. When I open it from Adobe Acrobat, copy and the paste into a new Word document, it looks just like the original image!

I think what you're seeing is a sign of an image that has been pasted together from multiple "levels."