[TexasCajun]

I saw this post on The Smoking Gun:

Try the following: Save off a copy of the exact PDF file the White House has released as Obama's birth certificate this morning. Find yourself a copy of Adobe Illustrator (not Photoshop), and load up the PDF file in Illustrator. Then click on the center of the image of the birth certificate, then right-click on the center of the image, and click Release Clipping Mask. Have fun...

Maybe some freeper can tell us what this means?

[Fractal Trader]

In Adobe Illustrator click Release Clipping Mask. Have fun...

Will this show the masked white spaces???

[mike182d]

"Try the following: Save off a copy of the exact PDF file the White House has released as Obama's birth certificate this morning. Find yourself a copy of Adobe Illustrator (not Photoshop), and load up the PDF file in Illustrator. Then click on the center of the image of the birth certificate, then right-click on the center of the image, and click Release Clipping Mask. Have fun...

Maybe some freeper can tell us what this means?"

Certainly.

When you open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator and release the clipping mask, several items are separate from the rest of the form, almost like a layer on top of the document. The items are:

1. Date Accepted by Local Reg.
2. Date Accepted by Reg. General
3. The date "APR 25 2011"
4. A "placeholder" for a square graphic above "Apr. 25, 2011"
5> The entire statement of certification and signature in the bottom right hand corner.

In fact, I can isolate those elements and move them anywhere on the document.

PDF conversion of a scanned document usually does not do this...or at least this with specific blocks of important items on a document.