Go learn something about document forgery and how photoshop works before you make such an illogical statement. Look at the content of the layers. If nothing else, look at all the Arpaio press conference video handouts and those videos and analyses published elsewhere.
Yes, it is idiotic to parse a PDF which breaks a document scan into layers. 30 minutes of research, or a simple download of Adobe acrobat would explain all these issue. Plus it ignores the other image released the same day that wasn't layered. It is trailer park analysis of a computer document - embarrassing for conservatives, and helping Obama.
It would be wiser to learn something about pdf's, Adobe, and Photoshop before making such a statement. If it was EVER published in layers, you should know that correcting that FUBAR by subsequently flattening it simply proves it is a forgery.
It doesn't even pass the common sense test. What forger would put together a document using this bizarre cut and paste, layering method...and then forget to merge the layers or flatten the image? The answer...NONE!!!
A dumb liberal staffer or lawyer with more skill than sense! Who says some liberal lawyer or legal aid that is smart enough to know how to fiddle with photoshop isn't dumb enough to know to flatten the resulting document before publishing it. There are a lot of people out here that are smart enough to photoshop it ...but... which are not forensic document examiners to know what NOT to do!
If you want a real-world display of the incompetence and hubris of the Obama administration and staff, the idiotic nature of the forgery simply confirms it in spades!!!!
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." Harlan Ellison
Clue: mid-’80s document processing involved, thanks to extreme limits on storage space, multi-layer document deconstruction involving multiple resolutions, varying compression, and auto-replacement of common components.
I knew then it would cause exactly the kind of consternation we’re seeing today. Ignorant of the past, you are setting yourself a trap and walking into it.