I'd love to see the debunk conspiracy video where someone scans in a similar document, and achieves a similar result. I searched youtube and there are 50 videos just like this one, but couldn't find a debunk one. I would do it, but I only use photoshop, no illustrator or acrobat pro.
Another thing that bugs me is that the White House claimed the short form certificate of birth was the only birth certificate in existence, so they are definitely back tracking on that. Also, from what I understand, when
Neil Abercrombie was elected as governor of Hawaii, he said he was going to get and release the birth certificate, only to later say he couldn't find it.
Within a few seconds of searching YouTube I found:-
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWQw2AAIho]YouTube - Obama Birth Certificate - Explanation + reproduction of so-called "Tampering". (Layers, PDF)[/ame]
and
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADAkitLu_c&feature=related]YouTube - Debunking the "Layers Scandal" of Obama's Birth Certificate - NOT A FAKE![/ame]
So it's clearly normal when optimizing a scanned document to have layers show up in illustrator. Not sure who those so-called experts are but they have some major egg on their face.