tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893698629458358623.post6347916954296248169..comments2024-02-26T19:19:32.362+00:00Comments on Not a sheep: More on the Barack Obama birth-certificateNot a sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893698629458358623.post-13001797899601814852012-08-31T18:48:45.524+01:002012-08-31T18:48:45.524+01:00Open *any* PDF in illustrator and it will appear t...Open *any* PDF in illustrator and it will appear to contain layers. All this says is that Ms. Zebest doesn't know what she is talking about. <br /><br />Even the National Review Online, hardly a pro-Obama cheerleader has said this is a nonsense.<br /><br />" But these layers, as they’re being called, aren’t layers in the traditional photo-editing sense of the word. They are, quite literally, pieces of image data that have been positioned in a PDF container. They appear as text but also contain glyphs, dots, lines, boxes, squiggles, and random garbage. They’re not combined or merged in any way. Quite simply, they look like they were created programmatically, not by a human.<br /><br />What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner. Let’s leave it at that."<br /><br /><br />http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/265767/pdf-layers-obamas-birth-certificate-nathan-gouldingjaznoreply@blogger.com