Reply #20: NOT forged with Word and I could testify in court about it. [View All]

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

First, let me say this: I am speaking for myself and not my employer.

From 1996-1999, I worked at Microsoft in the Microsoft Office group, although not on Microsoft Word. I am a computer programmer.

The documents do not look like Word-produced forgeries to me, at all.

Your points above, taken in order:

> 1. The font is exactly the same.

Of course they both look like Times. Times New Roman was designed to look exactly like Times. In fact, it was sumply called Times until Microsoft had to settle a lawsuit with Linotype over the intellectual property surrounding this typeface.

> 2. All line breaks fall on exactly the same words.

12pt proportionally-spaced Times would break the same on standard margins and paper. Remember, Microsoft invested a ton of money in making Word act like the tools it was replacing back then.

> 3. The superscript automatically appears.

That doesn't really demonstrate anything. As long as we are on the topic, the superscript "th" of the Killian document looks like a ligature to me. Word does not create a ligature there.

> 4. It lines up amazingly accurately.

Not for me. The 1st and 4th lines don't align with the 2nd and 3rd the same. If you overlap the two documents, it appears that they do because you make all the characters' edges hang out as if they were double-struck.

I tried all kinds of whacky tricks to make it line up, and couldn't get it to do so.

> 5. The idea of keeping a CYA file is weird.

Apparently, Killian kept this file someplace safe and presumably not in his office. I keep files like that. Of course not about my current employer!

> 6. Rove is behind it!

Nothing to be behind, in this case.

Here are some other points against it being a forgery:

7. The baseline of lines of text do not appear even.

In particular, some of the last characters on the lines are moved down a tiny bit. This is what happens when you hit return and the typewriter is waiting until it is "safe" to actually move the platten while the last character of the line is still in motion.

8. The character shapes are not exactly the same.

The Times New Roman "G" and the Times "G" from the Killian document look to be weighted differently at the bottom of the curve. The MS typeface narrows there, but the typewritten face does not appear to.

If you overlap the two letters, they look the same because what you are seeing is the overlap, which appears heavier than each individual character.