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Dan Rather on Reddit: "No One Ever Established the Documents Were Forged"

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Charles2/08/2013 5:50:29 pm PST

re: #221 ReamWorks SKG

Exactly! And the line breaks are enough to prove this is a fraud. There’s no way that a secretary pressing the carriage return button or dragging the carriage lever would EXACTLY MATCH how Microsoft word did it.

Even more telling, if you try to recreate that August 1973 document with some other word processing program, using the same fonts, it’s nearly impossible to get a close match. I speak from experience, because I tried to do exactly that: Another CBS Document Experiment.

Each word processing application has its own way of rendering documents. Even if you set all the margins and tab stops the same, and use the same fonts, you’ll see differences between the different apps. The exact appearance of a final printed document is like a fingerprint — unique to the program that created it.