Another deficiency of the Xerox 7535 / Preview PDF. I am continuing to compare the PDF file "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.

pdf" with the archived copy of the WH LFCOLB downloaded from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110427171111/http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_v iewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf In this posting I will show that the Xerox 7535 scan to PDF image contains no information in the White border region of the page which lies outside of the outermost rectangular clipping mask. The outermost clipping path was purported to be added by Preview. This clipping mask is present in the Preview print to PDF file "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf but is not present in the Xerox 7535 scan to PDF file "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wc.pdf. This finding differs from my earlier finding from examinations of the Obama LFCOLB PDF image. These examinations revealed pencil marks and near-White speckles in this page border region. These objects were found to be present in the PDF file "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf". This posting will focus on four Clipping path objects (four within each PDF). As a point of reference, I have summarized the W and H dimensions of four rectangular objects from the WH LFCOLB PDF. These four objects will then be compared with four rectangular objects from the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf". Except for the Artboard object, the rectangular boundaries of each rectangle also define a clipping path in Adobe Illustrator. The rectangles are listed from the largest to the smallest within each table. Object Background Artboard Clipping Path Mostly Text W(px) 1276 612 1200 1819 H(px) 1652 792 1590 1454 W(in.) 8.506666 8.5 8.0 6.063333 H (in.) 11.013333 11.0 10.6 4.846666 Pixels/in. 150 72 150 300

As defined within the PDF file, each image object is assumed have a pixel resolution of 72 PPI. This is the default pixel resolution for PDF. The corresponding image layer sizes for each image object are larger than the final sizes. Consequently I have replaced the common 72 PPI with the final resolution appropriate for each images final dimensions. Thus the object dimensions given in the tables are the final object dimensions as measured in Illustrator. The corresponding four rectangular objects from the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535wcpreview.pdf"are as follows: Object W(px) H(px) W(in.) H(in.) Pixels/in.

Background Artboard Clipping Path Mostly Text

1280 612 1225 1749

1664 792 1600 1403

8.533333 8.5 8.166666 5.83

11.093333 11.0 10.666667 4.676666

150 72 150 300

First, comparing the sizes of the corresponding rectangles we find that the Background rectangle from the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf" is larger than the Background rectangle of the PDF "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf". However, to the contrary, the mostly text rectangle of the Xerox / Preview PDF is considerably smaller than the mostly text rectangle of the WH LFCOLB PDF. I suspect that this difference was caused by the Mixed Raster Compression. Of course this effect would not be present in the WH LFCOLB PDF image because MRC was not applied to this image. Instead, a human forger manually set all of the rectangular object boundaries. Also the Clipping Path Rectangle from the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf" is larger than the Clipping Path Rectangle from the PDF " "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf". The Clipping Path from the Xerox / Preview PDF lies between the border of the Green basketweave background and the Artboard boundary. The Clipping Path from the WH LFCOLB PDF coincides with the outer boundary of the Green basket-weave background. The Clipping Path is purported to be added by Preview. The Rectangle dimensions (W = 1225 px; H = 1600 px) are not found by search within the PDF file. These dimensions are appropriate for a pixel resolution of 300 PPI x 300 PPI. The corresponding dimension in points for a resolution of 72 PPI x 72 PPI are W = 588 pts x 768 pts. The numbers 588 and 768 are also not found by searching within the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf" The Clipping Path is also not included in the object list within the PDF file. However we found a clipping path object with exact dimensions 588 pts x 768 pts by means of Adobe Acrobat Preflight. Prefight also showed the Background Rectangle dimensions after application of the Clipping Path. The Background Rectangle dimensions in Acrobat Preflight were also 588 pts x 768 pts. It is important to emphasize that the Clipping Paths do not remove the clipped portion of the background image from the PDF files. This was easily verified by removing the Clipping Path in Adobe illustrator. When the Clipping Path was turned off in the PDF "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf" two pencil marks near the right side of the background were revealed. Also revealed were additional White-speckle anomalies belonging to the Whitespeckle object at the top of the page.

The pencil markings were not present when the Clipping Path object was turned off in the PDF "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf". There are no White-speckle artifacts anywhere within the Xerox / Preview image. So we have proved that information is present in the White border region outside of the four edges of the Green basket-weave background in the PDF file "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf". To the contrary no information is present in this border region of the Xerox PDF image "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf". In fact there is a complete lack of information in the region of the white border of the Xerox scanned page when the clipping path is turned off in Adobe Illustrator. Importantly, the absence of information in the image "wh-lfbc-scanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf" (outside the outermost rectangular clipping path) was not caused by the addition of the Clipping Path. This is the same Clipping Mask that was purportedly added to the PDF by Preview. We have also proved that the sharp border of the Green basket weave background in the PDF image "birth-certificate-long-form WayBack Machine 04-27-2011_17-11-11.pdf" was created with a Clipping Path object. The rectangular Clipping Path is congruent with the outer rectangular boundary of the Green basket-weave background. To the contrary, the border of the Green basket-weave background in the PDF file "wh-lfbcscanned-xerox-7535-wcpreview.pdf" was not created by a clipping path. Moreover, the edges of the Green basket-weave background are not sharp. In fact the edge along the right side of the page is noticeably ragged. Moreover, the methodology used to set the dimensions of the Clipping Path object purported to be added by Preview is unknown. Presumably the dimensions of the rectangular clipping path would be set by a human.