Oh is right!
I was right, not my imagination...
No, I don't think they did. There were several font types available back then but they were fairly standardized as best I can remember. But I think it was unusual for individual machines to change fonts. I think the IBM Selectric was the first machine to do that...you could change out the imprinter ball. But that was sometime in the 70's.
LOL @ me thinking I'm a typewriter dork.
Because he folds when holding three aces...
I do have to admit, even after thinking the birther thing is probably the stupidest Obama side effect ever, this release does look pretty bogus. Which is really strange considering he endorsed it.
If it were released on like, CNN or Fox, or something I would laugh it off as a fake, hoax thing...but this is what whitehouse.gov and the pres himself are going with....lol...whoa.
I don't think some of these people have ever seen a real typewriter, let alone, ever used one.Typewriters don't use different fonts. Dude, you're not that young.
I have a lot of experience with IBM Selectrics.
How many of you asshats have your original birth certificate? I doubt any of does.
lol. I carry a certified copy in my wallet.
Don't ask me why. I think I got it when I was applying for my Tx Teaching Cert. bout a thousand years ago. But, I still got it.
I actually do, in a safe at my moms place.
I never knew there was a long form and a short form though.
There were different font types available for some typewrites, but you had to change a part in the typewriter. The IBM Selectric has a changeable ball for fonts like OCR, Courier, Times New Roman, and others. Pitches were 10, 12, and 15 characters to the inch. A locked, fixed spacing. Not proportional like computers do. I thing the line feeds were a standard 6 and 8 lines to the inch.
It's so obviously "altered", that I can only imagine that this was done just to with people.
I have mine.
I do, although it got wet while folded. But it's my original one issued more than 50 years ago.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...athan-goulding
We have received several e-mails today calling into question the validity of the PDF that the White House released, namely that there are embedded layers in the do ent. There are now several other people on the case. We looked into it and dismissed it.
The PDF is composed of multiple images. That’s correct. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc. 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.
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.
UPDATE: I’ve confirmed that scanning an image, converting it to a PDF, optimizing that PDF, and then opening it up in Illustrator, does in fact create layers similar to what is seen in the birth certificate PDF. You can try it yourself at home.
Well, that settles that.
Or does it?
Excuses, excuses.
My daughters knew better than to do that while growing up.
If an accurate assessment, the question remains, why not a photo of the original rather than taking the time to make a layered do ent?
Good. I didn't like being squeezed into a position I ridiculed on page one.
I absolutely addressed the white borders.
Doh! Should have finished reading the thread before responding....... The whole deal is already settled.
Last edited by Drachen; 04-27-2011 at 04:07 PM.
you're such a ing clown
LOL at WC getting clowned by Obama again. Obviously he isn't a citizen... he's not even a ing human! He's just messing with you doofuses for sheer entertainment... and you took the bait! CROFL
The afterbirther movement is growing daily -
Political move. News agencies will run with this as if it is news that the President of the US was born in the US. It doesn't really chance anything, people that Hate President Obama will still hate him and those that love him will still love.
I will continue to be completely indifferent to who is in the White House as it hasn't changed a day of my life through the last 8 presidencies.
I agree. It's a preprinted form and then a typewriter is used to type in the variables. It's entirely possible the preprinted portion was done in a different font.
You've got enough pie on your face. Why don't you let this one go and start obsessing over his Occidental college transcript like Trump?
I was referring to this link:
Your assumption is simply wrong.
your birth certificate must have gotten soaked from your mothers tears.
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