Layers of Deception

The original White House document is here as a PDF.

The PDF is made up of 9 layers (a 9-layer dip I suppose).  Each layer is an RGB image (red, green, blue color space). The PDFs below were constructed by turning "off" all but one PDF image resource in turn and saving the resulting file as a numbered PDF.

Layer 1 (topmost) as PDF.  Main background with white ghosting for some text.  Other text present on this layer.  Text is mostly an RGB grey.

Layer 2 as PDF.  Main text/signature layer.  Mostly RGB grey in color.


Layer 3 as PDF.  Hawaii registrars stamp.

Layer 4 as PDF.  "April 25, 2011" - registrar date.

Layer 5 as PDF. "Aug 8..." (green)

Layer 6 as PDF. "Aug 8 19.." (green)

Layer 7 as PDF. "Non"

Layer 8 as PDF. (Appears to be blank.)

Layer 9 (bottom most) as PDF. (Also appears blank.)

No one believes that this is a real document of any sort.  Its just an amateurish mish-mash of some sort of pieces and parts.

Layer #2 looks like an image of a real page - you can see that there is a curve to the text at the top as if it were photographed from a book of some sort.  This is most likely the basis for the original material.

My guess is that this (#2) layer was grabbed somehow in a graphics program from an actual image. The remaining layers were manufactured to provide a background and to "fix up" whatever the grab for layer #2 did not pick up.

Layer #1 looks like a partially flattened mash up of the white ghosting from layer #2 and some of the original content.  Most likely this was pasted onto some kind of "safety paper" background or pulled apart from the background in PhotoShop.

Why anyone would go through this much PhotoShop hackery to create a PDF like this is really beyond me.  Particularly when an original photographic image or scan would do.

This document was clearly created to cause controversy, not to eliminate it.

What I would expect to see is something like this instead (picture at top of blog) or this (a single image in the PDF).

States and governments had reasonable means to capture documents in 1961 - clearly the document at the top was accurately captured in 1946.

Really - why is this necessary?