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REPORT BARACK OBAMA: LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE Page 10 of 12Figure 23:Figure 24:Figure 25a:Double-click to openLink Information dialog boxScale Information:24% scale, Rotated -90°Link Information for Onaka stamp objectBackground Link Information dialog boxScale Information:48% scale, Rotated -90°Link Information background pattern objectDocument Font Propertiesof original PDF fileFont Properties of PDF fileFigure 25b:Similar to the Layers panel, the Links panel should only displayone link (if this was a normally scanned image). Multiple links arealso indicators of image manipulation since they reference objectsadded to the document (not part of the original document).Double-click any of the link items seen in the Links panel to displaya Link Information dialog box (for additional information).Figure 23 shows the Link Information for the Onaka stamp object.The important focus has to do with the scale information whichshows the object was scaled 24% and rotated -90°. Most of thelinks show similar scale information except for the backgroundpattern. Figure 24 shows the Link Information dialog box whichindicates the background pattern object has been scaled at 48%(instead of 24%). Again, this inconsistency is another indicator ofimage manipulation that refutes the OCR naysayer argument. Ifthe document is scanned, regardless of whether OCR softwarewas used or not, there is still a consistency in the scanning process(which is not present in this document). Items will not scale atdifferent sizes during a scan.The OCR Argument Explored FurtherOCR—which again stands for Optical Character Recognition—willscan a document for text and convert any images of text to livetext which can be edited. The text responds as if you were in aWord document. The text can be selected, changed, copied andpasted. If the PDF had been scanned using OCR software (as manyclaim); the document would also be able to search for keywords.In other words, when opening the PDF file, you would be able totype in a keyword in the find dialog box and the document wouldrecognize the word. This does not happen when opening Obama’sPDF file.Additionally, the properties dialog box would reflect which fontswere used in the document. Figure 25a reflects the Font Propertiesdialog box in Obama’s PDF certificate file. This can be viewed bygoing to the File menu > Properties, then click on the Font tab inthe Document Properties dialog box. As you can see, this dialog boxis empty indicating that the PDF file does not recognize any text.In contrast, fonts can be seen after the file was then processedthrough the OCR Text Recognition option in Acrobat (foundon the Document menu). Foranyone playing along, go to theDocument menu and select OCR TextRecognition, and then click RecognizeText Using OCR. Acrobat will thenperform a scan on the document andDocument Font Propertiesafter OCR Text RecognitionFont Properties dialog after OCR Text Recognitionconvert any text found in the image toeditable text.The Acrobat Find box is then ableto locate and recognize words in thedocument, but more importantly,Figure 25b shows that all the fontsrecognized during the process are nowlisted in the Font Properties dialog box.Interestingly enough, the file no longershows multiple layers in Illustrator,which also contradicts the claims madeby the naysayers.
REPORT BARACK OBAMA: LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE Page 11 of 12Figure 26:Figure 27:Excel capture with layers saved as a PSD fileDefault settings in Illustrator preserves PSD layersSaving the PSD (Photoshop) Layered FileAs stated earlier in this report, it is my theory that the file wascompiled and created in Photoshop, but some work might havebeen done in Illustrator as well. A Photoshop file (known as a PSDfile) will preserve all the layers created (as long as the image hasn’tbeen flattened). The Excel capture used previously in the report(and seen in Figure 26) will be used again for the purposes of thisnext demonstration.When the PSD file is opened in Illustrator a Photoshop ImportOptions dialog box displays as seen in Figure 27. The defaultsettings will preserve the layers and convert them to an objectwhich merely means that each pixel-based object will have theouter path to distinguish the boundaries of that object.Figure 28a shows the opened PSD file in Illustrator. Notice theLinks panel displays the layer objects as links (similar to Obama’sfile), and the Layers panel displays the layers in the same orderas the Photoshop counterpart seen in Figure 26. The process offlattening the document in Illustrator is also a similar processcompared to Photoshop. The user would click on the Layers panelmenu icon (see icon callout in Figure 28a) and click on the FlattenArtwork option. In Photoshop the menu option would be FlattenImage.While the process may be similar the results are not. When thedocument is flattened in Photoshop, it becomes one flattenedlayer in the traditional sense (as previously discussed). However,as Figure 28b shows, the Layers panel in Illustrator flattens the 7layers by placing all the objects into a separate sub-layer containedwithin one main layer. Recall that vector programs can contain sublayers.In addition, if the user were to select the entire documentand then go to the Object menu to choose Clipping Mask >Make, the result is the opposite of the procedure used to releasethe clipping mask group. This will cause all the sub-layers to beconverted to the groups also seen in Figure 28b.When saving the file as a PDF from Illustrator, the default settingwill Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities—which means itwill retain all the object (sub-layer) information within the PDF file.Thus when the PDF file is opened, the layer and sub-layer groupsare still available. There’s a very strong possibility that the creator ofObama’s certificate file followed a similar process.Sub-layer groups7 Layers before flattening 1 Layer after flatteningClick the Layers panel menuand choose Flatten ArtworkFigure 28a:The Links panel and Layers panel after openingFigure 28b:The Layers panel before and after Flatten Artwork
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