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Originally Posted by ocularist
Baraka,
i must respectfully say that either you are ignorant of typesetting, or you are intentionally misleading people: which is it?
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First of all, calm down. I'm not a typesetter, it's true, but neither am I a government agent. I know this is Titled Paranoia, but c'mon! (But you get points from me for your ironic use of the word
respectfully. Well played. Whenever I'm always afraid that irony is dead, people like you come along to prove me wrong.)
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PROPORTIONAL typesetting has nothing to do with KERNING.
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It should be pointed out that I didn't even say that this is the case. But you're the pro, not me. Can you can kern a monospace font?
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In your link to the IBM example of a typewriter with PROPORTIONAL capabilities, IBM created a typewriter that was cognizant of the actual widths of letters of the typeface they designed. each letter was struck, and spaced out to the next letter only the width of that letter. this did not reqiire that the typewriter be cognizant of LETTER PAIRS. AT NO TIME do the descenders of a following letter actually encroach upon the vertical space of a prior letter, as is done in KERNING.
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Do you have actual information about this?
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KERNING needs the intelligence of LETTER PAIRS, which when typeset by a book printer, was done in lead by the knowledge of the person putting the letters in the rack (HE would be the person understanding letter pairs like -ly, or -ty, etc) or by a computer that is able to look ahead in the letter stream.
NO TYPEWRITER OF THE 60's or any other time possessed this knowledege; nor is it possible because the typewriter cannot strike until it knows the next letter following to decide to HOW MUCH TO SPACE.
LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE PAGE on at that IBM link: you WILL NOT SEE any example of descender encroachment!!!
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I see it. Maybe you didn't look closely enough.
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SO, we're back to the original poster's question-- the answer is that kerning is present in Mr. Obama's "original long form birth certificate", something that is not physically possible with ANY TYPEWRITER -- this forces the issue that it MUST NECESSARILY BE A FORGERY, and unfortunately, a simple-minded one at that...
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So...this
is Tilted Paranoia. You'd think the mythmakers of the most powerful government office in the world would be able to find some geek(s) who knew how to make a circa-1961 birth certificate from a domestic jurisdiction that would raise little doubts. I mean, we live in the computer and Internet age.
Jurassic Park looked like they used
real dinosaurs.
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I say simple-minded, because I have been digitizing and OCR'ing documents for some 15 years--I even have friends at Adobe, and have been involved with their beta testing programs, so I'm fully aware of the "tricks" that can be used to simulate a forgery.
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Are you a rarity? Don't you think the federal government could find people like you to make a believable forgery?
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[Some prime Tilted Paranoia content.]
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Thanks for this. This is the good stuff.
So why didn't they find someone like you?
Maybe they
want conspiracy theories based on a "flawed document." It provides a continued distraction from all the important shit they're pulling off while the wool* is pulled over everyone's eyes.
*Or forged birth certificate, as it were.