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Julian D. A. Wiseman
Publication history: only at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemats_list.html. Usual disclaimer and copyright terms apply. Also see the main feature, the program that makes the placemats.
Contents: Far future; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2003–2006; ≤2002; Grace.
Most of the placemats in this list were made with earlier versions of the software, and some required expert use of the program’s features. Also see the main feature, the program that makes the placemats, and the discussion about this page.
Some of the placemats are shown as small bitmaps, typically at 50% scale. These bitmaps were not consistently generated. A black 0.24pt line appears in some as faint gray (“Apple Quartz PDF Importer”); in others as a black pixel (“dynapdf Importer”). For example, see the tasting of 21 July 2015. If it matters, inspect the PDF. If it really matters, inspect a printout of the relevant page of the PDF.
Some observations about my use of the software.
Functionality has changed over the versions. Mostly, that has been the addition of page types and of settings. Less often, functionality has been removed, either because it was unreliable, or was too difficult to maintain, or was thought that it somehow didn’t fit, or was ugly. Sometimes, it has been, within functionality, a change of constants such as line widths and shades of grey.
My style has shifted. In early placemats the Titles were very heavy and black, with the mistaken objective of them being readable through the liquid. Then the patterning become stronger and more varied. But the varied patterning made it more difficult to compare colours. More white behind the liquid makes the colour easier to perceive, done by by /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 1 def, since 2014 this look being frequent. Hence the modern preference for light consistency.
Indeed, this can be said more strongly. Some of the designs are so cluttered, so dominated by decorative gaudiness, that they are awful. Even though some designs are good, I’m not proud of all of them.
Despite which, some playfulness is still good. Do play.
The software and its user-written parameters are in PostScript, and the code has many places that enable, indeed encourage, code injection. The user has access to the code’s internal parameters, and to the full power of the PostScript programming language. It is likely that I use this more than other users of the software.
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23 Apr 2051 ◊ 2011 Horizontal, planned very far in advance |
PostScript source, in case I should become, ahem, permanently unavailable. |
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24 November 2020 ◊ Quinta de la Rosa |
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19 November 2020 ◊ Blandy’s Madeiras |
Blandy’s Madeiras, arranged by Vintage Wine and Port. To see seven glasses on an /A4 is rare (26 Apr 2017, 25 Nov 2015). Small error: Duke of Sussex, not of Clarence (happily, the fault not mine). ‘Spin’ a new feature, necessitating that DropletsCharges have length a multiple of 4. /GlassesOnSheetsMaxPerSheet 7 def /Droplets true def /DropletsCharges [ % Length a multiple of 4 /All 0 -1 0 % SheetNum Location Charge Spin. SheetNum can be /All; position can be circle number. /All {[PageWidth 2 div Radii SheetNum get MgnB add]} +1 {Radii SheetNum get 2 mul} ] def % DropletsCharges /OutputLogToPage false def
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28 September 2020 ◊ Not The (Much-Delayed) VE-Day Tasting |
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25 August 2020 ◊ Emergency at 67 Pall Mall |
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30 July 2020 ◊ Quevedo Whites |
Quevedo whites, arranged by Vintage Wine and Port.
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23 July 2020 ◊ Fortified Wines from Andalusia |
Arranged by The Big Fortified Tasting and by Extenda, The Trade Promotion Agency of Andalusia; presented by Sarah Jane Evans MW on YouTube. The sherries presented were from La Guita, Bodegas Barbadillo, Bodegas Alvear, Toro Albalá, Emilio Lustau, and Bodegas Williams & Humbert.
/Orientation /Landscape def /ExternalLinks [ % Eleven rows omitted. Links in PDF's Table of Contents. ] def % /ExternalLinks % If font sizes closer than this ratio, then collapsed to smaller. % Prevents aesthetic unpleasantness of slightly different font sizes. % Setting to large, say >=4, forces all to equal smallest. % Setting to <=1 deactivates this constraint. /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 999 def /OutputLogToPage false def |
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— Cancelled — 02 June 2020 ◊ Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal No placemats yet made |
Cancelled: a lesser casualty of the COVID19 lockdowns. The design of the placemats might echo the design used for the 1960 Horizontal at The Bowler in May 2010. |
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— Cancelled — 12 May 2020 ◊ Horizontal of 1992s |
Cancelled: a lesser casualty of the COVID19 lockdowns. Fonts = /DejaVuSerifCondensed, /GillSansMT-Condensed (as used, for example, on 22 Dec 2014), /DejaVuSerif-Bold, /DejaVuSerif.
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07–08 May 2020 ◊ Quevedo, Live at Home Quevedo Vintage Wine and Port ThePortForum TheBFT www.jdawiseman.com/2020/20200507_Quevedo.pdf |
Some ordinary PostScript fiddliness — but observe the interaction between HeadersRight and PageOrdering… — and then the messiness of including images. But it would be much easier to make the placemats without images, and then add them using Adobe Illustrator or another PDF editor, if you have such software. /PDF_title (#TasteAtHomeWithOscar) def % Appears as tab name in browser /HeadersRight [ 0 [(Thursday 7) {SuperscriptOn} (th) {SuperscriptOff} ( May 2020)] 1 [ (Friday 8) {SuperscriptOn} (th) {SuperscriptOff} ( May 2020)] 2 [ (7) {SuperscriptOn} (th) {SuperscriptOff} /endash {+0.12 Kern} (8) {SuperscriptOn} (th) {SuperscriptOff} ( May 2020) ] ] def % /HeadersRight /PageOrderingGlasses [ 0 1 ] def /PageOrderingTastingNotePages [ 2 ] def /VoteRecorders false def /CorkDisplayNumCopies 0 def /NeckTagsNumCopies 0 def /PrePourNumCopies 0 def /DecantingNotesNumCopies 0 def /AccountsNumCopies 0 def /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 2 ] [ 3 4 5 ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /GlassesOnTastingNotePages [ [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ] ] def % /GlassesOnTastingNotePages /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /PackingStyles [ [ /LeftSide /OnlyIfSheetNumMin 0 /OnlyIfSheetNumMax 0 ] [ /RightSide /OnlyIfSheetNumMin 1 /OnlyIfSheetNumMax 1 ] ] def % /PackingStyles /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinTitles 3 ge {2} {1} ifelse} def /WaterBoxes /None def % /Glasses /TastingNotes /Both, any other value being none /OutputLogToPage false def /PaintBackgroundCode { TypeOfPagesBeingRendered /Glasses eq { 1 { /BrandingText [(#T) {-0.08 Kern} (asteA) {-0.02 Kern} (tHome) {-0.03 Kern} (WithOscar)] def /Calibri dup 1 selectfont PageWidth MgnL MgnR add sub Radii SheetNum get 2 mul sub BrandingText StringPathBBox pop exch pop exch sub div selectfont MgnL MgnR sub PageWidth add 2 div Radii SheetNum get SheetNum 0 eq {add} {sub} ifelse GlassPositions SheetNum get 0 get 1 get 3 mul GlassPositions SheetNum get 1 get 1 get add 4 div moveto BrandingText StringPathBBox 3 -1 roll sub -2 div 3 1 roll sub 2 div exch rmoveto BrandingText ShowRecursive % Page 15 of http://www.acumentraining.com/Acumen_Journal/AcumenJournal_Dec2002.zip % Page 9 of http://www.acumentraining.com/Acumen_Journal/AcumenJournal_Jan2003.zip (+BFT logo) = matrix currentmatrix /DeviceRGB setcolorspace MgnL MgnR sub PageWidth add 2 div Radii SheetNum get SheetNum 0 eq {add} {sub} ifelse GlassPositions SheetNum get 1 get 1 get 3 mul GlassPositions SheetNum get 0 get 1 get add 4 div translate << /width 1091 /height 791 >> begin Radii SheetNum get 1.4 mul height dup mul width dup mul add sqrt div dup scale width -2 div height -2 div translate << /ImageType 1 /Width width /Height height /ImageMatrix [1 0 0 -1 0 height] LogoBFT_Data 0 setfileposition /DataSource LogoBFT_Data << >> /DCTDecode filter /BitsPerComponent 8 /Decode [0 1 0 1 0 1] >> image end setmatrix (-BFT logo\n) = % [ Omitting other two logos ] } repeat % 1 } if % ... /Glasses } bind def % /PaintForegroundCode (+BFT logo data) = /LogoBFT_Data currentfile << /Filter /ASCIIHexDecode /Intent 0 >> /ReusableStreamDecode filter FFD8FFE000104A46494600010100004800480000FFE100404578696600004D % [ Many lines omitted ] 65F073FE49C691FF006F1FFA3E4AF4DAF8DC47F125EACD0FFFD9 > % End-of-data marker for ASCIIHexDecode data def % /LogoBFT_Data (-BFT logo data\n) = |
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30 Apr 2020 ◊ Virtual tasting #4 |
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07 Apr 2020 ◊ Virtual tasting |
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17 Mar 2020 ◊ Vintage 2000 Port in the Time of Coronavirus |
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08 Feb 2020 ◊ 1970s in Leverkusen arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
/CircletextFont /Palatino-Roman def % 02 Oct 2018 was previous use /TitlesFont /GilliusADFNo2-BoldCond def % 08 Oct 2013 was only previous use /BelowtitlesFont /GilliusADFNo2-Bold def % 20 Sep 2016 was previous use /OvertitlesFont BelowtitlesFont def /NamesFont /Palatino-Italic def % 02 Oct 2018 was previous use /HeaderFont NamesFont def
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28 Jan 2020 ◊ A Trio
www.planetmeehan.com/dlfiles/200128/20200127_Trio.pdf |
Made by Mike Meehan. Two bugs: one his; one mine.
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11 Jan 2020 ◊ Port at the Glendora Country Club |
Made for Andy Velebil. Page sizes: /USLegal = 14″×8½″; and /USL = 8½″×11″. Not known who was to attend: /Names [ 15 {()} repeat ] def
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09 Jan 2020 ◊ Blinded bottle of fortified wine |
/VoteRecorderTopTexts [ [ (Wine Of The Night?) /questiondown ] [ (What is it?) ] ] def /VoteRecorderShowTotalRow [ false true ] def % Same length as VoteRecorderTopTexts /VoteRecorderCrossedBox { VoteRecorderShowTotalRow VoteRecorderSheetNum GetEU dup { pop Titles WithinTitles get ASCIIfy ThisName ASCIIfy eq ThisName length 0 gt and ThisName ASCIIfy (BK) ne and ThisName ASCIIfy (OJW) ne and } if % VoteRecorderShowTotalRow ... } bind def % /VoteRecorderCrossedBox /CircletextFont /TrebuchetMS def % Non-bold TrebuchetMS most recently used 18 Sep 2012 /TitlesFont /DukeThinBold def % DukeThinBold most recently used 09 Mar 2010 /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def % /MidGrey /Black /ColourSchemeBelowtitles ColourSchemeTitles def % /MidGrey /Black /BelowtitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.5 def /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def % In effect disables this /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 16 def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def % At least one of: /Flower /Star /Heart /ShapesAverageSeparation 12.5 def /ShapesEnclosingCircleRadiusMin 5 def /ShapesEnclosingCircleRadiusMax 6 def /ShapesAverageMaxTweakPlusMinus 4 def /InlineTitles false def |
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19 Dec 2019 ◊ Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends |
Sticky labels, not glasses sheets. /GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
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18 Dec 2019 ◊ 1934s and 1935s at Otto’s
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17 Dec 2019 ◊ A port that cost you less than £25 |
Fonts: /GillSans-Light, /GillSans-CondensedBold, /Harrington, /GillSans-Italic.
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09 Dec 2019 ◊ 1991s |
There are tastings to which everybody brings something, and sometimes some people bring more than one thing. For such tastings it’s natural to extract the Names from Circlearrays. However, there’s sometimes a blank or spare circle, for which the element of Circlearrays resembles [ /dagger ]. This code assumes that the last item of each sub-array of Circlearrays is a name; it gets the last item of each sub-array, removes those of which the type is /nametype, and removes duplicates. This is not perfect, but its imperfection is avoidable. In PostScript (Julian) (Julian) eq returns true, but [(Julian)] [(Julian)] eq returns false. So names that are compound strings, so all those with kerning or accents, should be assigned to a variable and that variable used. E.g., /Joao [(J) {-0.02 Kern} (o) /atilde (o)] def (= “João”). /Names [ % Non-duplicate non-nametypes from last items of Circlearrays' sub-arrays Circlearrays {dup length 1 sub get dup type /nametype ne {counttomark 1 sub -1 1 {index 1 index eq {pop exit} if} for} {pop} ifelse} forall () ] def % /Names /PDF_title (1991s on 2019Dec09) def % Appears as tab name in browser /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def % I.e., unconstrained /BackgroundTextsGlasses true def /BackgroundTextsGlassesTexts [ [/quoteright {-0.09102 Kern} (9) 1 index (1)] ] def /BackgroundTextsTNsTexts [ [/quoteright {-0.09493 Kern} (9) 1 index (1)] dup dup ] def /BackgroundTextsGlassesPaintCode { clipsave clip /TastingNotes TypeOfPagesBeingRendered eq {1} {2} ifelse -1 0 { 35.36 mul dup 4.32 add gsave setlinewidth 0.9375 setgray stroke grestore dup 0 gt {gsave setlinewidth 1 setgray stroke grestore} {pop} ifelse } for cliprestore newpath } def % /BackgroundTextsGlassesPaintCode /PrePourReverseOrder false def |
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21 Nov 2019 ◊ Rebello Valente |
Re the use of Droplets, see the discussion on ThePortForum.com.
The two-line effect does not fit well with the general flow of the software’s parameters; indeed, is perhaps fighting against its programgeist (extracts follow, or see all used parameters). /ShipperString1 (Rebello) def /ShipperString2 [(V) {-0.08 Kern} (alente)] def /ShipperTwoLines [ {//ShipperString2 StringWidthRecursive //ShipperString1 StringWidthRecursive sub 2 div dup 0 lt {pop 0} if CurrentFontSize 0.4375 mul rmoveto} //ShipperString1 {//ShipperString1 StringWidthRecursive //ShipperString2 StringWidthRecursive add -2 div CurrentFontSize -0.875 mul rmoveto} //ShipperString2 {//ShipperString1 StringWidthRecursive //ShipperString2 StringWidthRecursive sub 2 div dup 0 lt {pop 0} if CurrentFontSize 0.4375 mul rmoveto} ] bind def % /ShipperTwoLines The immediate evaluation of some names (“//”) and the bind have no affect other than a slight speeding of execution, so may be omitted. I think this can look acceptable if the two words are of similar length and lack descenders (‘Rebello Valente’, perhaps ‘Ramos Pinto’), but not if they are of very different lengths or have descenders (‘Smith Woodhouse’, ‘Tuke Holdsworth’; ‘Butler Nephew’, ‘Gonzalez Byass’, ‘Gould Campbell’, ‘Quarles Harris’, ‘Royal Oporto’). |
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11 Nov 2019 ◊ The March Porters |
Other than some decanter labels, the first use of FillTitles since January 2014. /TastingNotesCirclesBehind false def /FillTitles true def /FillTexts [ (March Porters) dup dup dup dup (Guests) dup dup dup dup ] def /FillTextPrintQuickerDistillSlower true def /FillTextAngle /LowerCenter def /MarginB { /Glasses TypeOfPagesBeingRendered eq { 297 360 mul 127 div 30 sub 420 360 mul 127 div 48 sub 5 div 2 mul sub % = 225342 635 div ~= 354.869291338582677 } {24} ifelse % Glasses } def % /MarginB But parts of this could have been differently. E.g., the placement of the circles (but not of the water boxes) could have been set with something like the following. /PackingStyles [ [ /Array /Positions [0 1] [1 1] [2 1] [3 1] [4 1] [0 0 0 1] [1 0 1 1] [2 0 2 1] [3 0 3 1] [4 0 4 1] ] ] def % /PackingStyles |
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29 Oct 2019 ◊ Phil Wakely’s 50th Birthday |
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23 Oct 2019 ◊ Messias |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 PortData length 6 sub {} for ] [ PortData length 5 sub 1 PortData length 1 sub {} for ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /PackingStyles [ [ /RectangularDislocation /GlassesNumMin 6 ] [ /Diamonds /GlassesNumMin 6 ] [ /DiamondsAndRectangular /GlassesNumMin 6 /RectColsToLeftOrRowsBelow 0 ] [ /Array /GlassesNumMax 5 /SuppressNonRightOrnaments /Positions [0 3 1 3] [0 1 1 1] [1 4] [1 2] [1 0] ] ] def % /PackingStyles /OvertitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.125 def /Spirals true def /SpiralCentreFromCentreProportionRadiiInside 0.75 def /SpiralCentreFromCentreAngle {360 WithinTitles 1 add mul PortData length div} def |
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07 Oct 2019 ◊ Bring a bottle, blind |
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20→29 Sep 2019 ◊ In Portugal |
/Names [ () ] def /NamesVoteRecorder [ 9 {()} repeat ] def /GlassesNumCopies 60 def /TastingNotePagesNumCopies 30 def /AccountsNumCopies 0 def /NeckTagsNumCopies 0 def /GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders [ {GlassesOnTastingNotePages} 9 {dup} repeat ] def /VoteRecorderTopTexts [ [ /questiondown ] GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders length 1 sub {dup} repeat ] def /VoteRecorderShowTotalRow [ GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders length {false} repeat ] def /GlassesClusteredOnCorkDisplay GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders def |
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10 Sep 2019 ◊ 1966s |
As requested some design inspiration, such as use of fonts /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /TimesNewRomanPSMT, from placemats of ‘Deeper Underground’ tasting of 28 Jan 2008.
First use of droplets (general discussion, specific discussion). At this stage still experimenting with the various settings. |
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25 June 2019 ◊ 2017s |
No glasses pages; instead sticky labels, 5×13 per /A4. Unusual to set /StickyLabelsOrientation /Landscape def, being the orientation of each label rather than of pages. Also non-standard was /VoteRecorders false def. And the very long ExternalLinks might have been gratuitous (lots of links to threads, and to Bs, B, Ch, ChG, Ck, Cs, Cr, CrS, Dl, D, F, G, GST, Jv, K, Lm, Mt, My, Ni, N, Pi, Pç, Pt, Qv, RP, Ra, Rs, Sq, Sk, T, TVVV, Vl, V, VS, W). Font for the Names was /AmericanTypewriter-Condensed, and for everything else /AmericanTypewriter-Semibold. Good or bad? |
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11 June 2019 ◊ 1994s |
And a zoom of the Noval circle:
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /CrossHatchingOutside true def /CrossHatchingTitles true def /CrossHatchingCellArea 1296 def /CrossHatchingCentreX /Right def % number /Name /Left /Center /Right /CenterSheetsSamePageOrdering /CrossHatchingCentreY {PageHeight MgnT sub 3 mul MgnB add 4 div Radii SheetNum get 2 div sub} def |
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23 May 2019 ◊ Victoria’s 200th |
/TitlesFont /Cochin def /CircletextFont /Optima-Regular def /InlineTitles false def |
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21 May 2019 ◊ Blind and Informal |
/ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ColourSchemeBelowtitles ColourSchemeTitles def /InlineTitles false def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesInBelowtitles ShapesInTitles def /ShapesToUse [/Flower] def |
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16 Apr 2019 ◊ The Big Fortified Tasting, masterclasses www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190416_BFT_Kopke.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190416_BFT_Sandeman.pdf |
Masterclasses at The Big Fortified Tasting, as given by Kopke; by Sandeman; by Vinos de Jerez; and by IVBAM.
From Kopke: /PackingStyles [ [ /Array /Positions [0 2] [0 1] [0 0] [1 2] [1 1] [1 0] [2 2] [2 1] [2 0] [3.25 2] [3.25 1] [3.25 0] ] ] def % /PackingStyles /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinTitles 3 idiv 1 add} def /InlineTitlesBlackWidth {1.44 InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours sqrt div} def /FootersLeft [0 { TypeOfPagesBeingRendered dup /Glasses ne exch /TastingNotes ne and {[(www) {-0.04 Kern} (.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190416_BFT_Kopke.pdf)]} {()} ifelse } ] def % /FootersLeft /OutputLogToPage false def From the other three: /PackingStyles [ [ /PostsAndLintel /CentralGlasses 0 /GlassesNumMin 8 /OnlyIfOrientation /Landscape ] [ /Arch /CentralGlasses 0 /GlassesNumMax 7 /OnlyIfOrientation /Landscape ] ] def % /PackingStyles The printout of the Kopke placemats had a printer artefact, perhaps noticed only by me. The ideal solution requires a difficult algorithm: help requested. |
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26 Mar 2019 ◊ DRT’s Annual Elixir Tasting |
/PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /TitlesFont /BlueHighwayFreeCondensed def /Rotate180AlternateNames {TypeOfPagesBeingRendered /TastingNotes eq} def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesStarsPointsAndStepsArray [ [6 2] [5 2] ] def /ShapesTitlesFill { ShapesIntY ShapesIntX add 2 mod 0 eq {0.75} {0.9375} ifelse setgray fill} def /ShapesTitlesStroke {0 setgray stroke} def /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 1 get ASCIIfy (1965) eq {2} {1} ifelse} def /PDF_title HeadersCenter 1 get def The alternate setgraying with 0.75 and 0.9375 worked perfectly, fixing the problem described in the tasting of 5 March 2019. |
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05 Mar 2019 ◊ Fonseca 1970 Magnum, and Some Youngsters |
A very elegant design. The one imperfection was that the filling of the stars was done with two grays, 0.875 and 0.9375, which were too similar. Of course, on a different printer it might have been perfect. Note to self: next time test 0.75 and 0.9375.
/CircletextFont /GilliusADF-BoldCond def /TitlesFont CircletextFont def /NamesFont /Harrington def /AbovetitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.4 def /BelowtitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.4 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 11 def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesStarsPointsAndStepsArray [ [5 2] ] def /ShapesTitlesFill { ShapesIntY ShapesIntX add 2 mod 0 eq {0.875} {0.9375} ifelse setgray fill } def /ShapesTitlesStroke {0 setgray stroke} def |
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13 Feb 2019 ◊ A Box of Vesuvio |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /Spirals true def /SpiralCentreFromCentreProportionRadiiInside 0.75 def |
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03 Jan 2019 ◊ Blind Emergency |
First appearance of Spirals. Drawing these with few Bézier curves uses the function ApproximatingCurve, as discussed on comp.lang.postscript.
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13 Dec 2018 ◊ Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends |
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12 Dec 2018 ◊ 1948s at Otto’s |
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11 Dec 2018 ◊ Offley |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) % Extracts from parameters; some omitted /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 Titles length 4 sub {} for ] [ Titles length 3 sub 1 Titles length 1 sub {} for ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /PackingStyles [ [ /RectangularDislocation /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /Diamonds /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /DiamondsAndRectangular /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /RectangularAlternateNudge /GlassesNumMin 4 /ImprovementPointsMin 2 ] [ /RightSide /GlassesNumMax 3 /OnlyIfOrientation /Portrait /SuppressNonRightOrnaments ] ] def % /PackingStyles /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingCellArea 56 12 mul 2 mul def % Two pipes /CrossHatchingNumRadialLines 120 def /CrossHatchingCentreX {SheetNum 0 eq {0} {PageWidth 2 div 420 360 mul 127 div sub} ifelse} def /CrossHatchingCentreY {PageHeight MarginT sub Radii 0 get 2 mul sub} def /NeckTagsShowCrossHatchingInside true def First use of /SuppressNonRightOrnaments (which should have been coded ages ago—saves so much awkwardness with the headers). |
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01 Dec 2018 ◊ Niepoort Garrafeiras, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /CrossHatchingTitles false def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingOutside false def Because CrossHatchingNumRadialLines = 180 the radial lines are 2° apart. And each of the curved ‘rectangles’ has area CrossHatchingCellArea, being about 491pt² ≈ 61.1mm² ≈ (7.8mm)². |
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13 Nov 2018 ◊ Blind Emergency |
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30 Oct 2018 ◊ Mature Single Quinta (or Second Label) Ports |
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02 Oct 2018 ◊ Cockburn Vertical |
Ten years after ThePortForum’s first vertical, it is repeated.
/CircletextFont /Palatino-Roman def /TitlesFont /GillSans def /AbovetitlesFont /Palatino-Italic def /BelowtitlesFont AbovetitlesFont def /OvertitlesFont /Palatino-BoldItalic def /NamesFont /Palatino-Bold def /SubtitlesFont AbovetitlesFont def |
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12 Sep 2018 ◊ 2016s |
No glass circles, instead sticky labels.
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24 July 2018 ◊ Bring a bottle to share |
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03 July 2018 ◊ Bring a bottle to share |
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12 June 2018 Bring a bottle to share |
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05 June 2018 ◊ 8s: Second or Fourth Digit, an ‘8’ |
The theme being ‘8’s, the placemats were laden with eight-pointed stars, octagons, and ±8° from horizontal. Upon reflection, maybe it was a bit childish.
Rotation algorithm: 8°; take the WithinTitles element of Titles; ASCIIfy to remove kerning instructions and other non-text; extract decade digit; iff even then neg the 8°. /RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray {08 Titles WithinTitles get ASCIIfy dup length 2 sub 1 getinterval cvi 2 mod 0 eq {neg} if} def Background pattern: /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesStarsPointsAndStepsArray [ [8 1] [8 2] dup [8 3] dup dup dup ] def % Updated to work with code of February 2019. /PaintBackgroundCode { /Glasses TypeOfPagesBeingRendered eq { << /ShapesAverageSeparation 48 >> begin % Clipping path MgnL MgnB moveto MgnL PageHeight MgnT sub lineto PageWidth MgnR sub PageHeight MgnT sub lineto PageWidth MgnR sub MgnB lineto closepath GlassPositions SheetNum get {aload pop Radii SheetNum get 3 copy add moveto 90 450 arc closepath} forall MgnL MgnB PageWidth MgnR sub PageHeight MgnT sub % Bounding box {ShapesIntX ShapesIntY add 2 mod 0 eq {1} {0.9375} ifelse setgray fill} % Fill code {0.24 setlinewidth 0 setgray stroke} % Stroke code true % DoActuallyClip ShapesClippedToPath newpath end } if % Glasses page } def % Executed once, just before painting pages |
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15 May 2018 ◊ Royal Wedding: Port Fit for a (New) Duchess |
An echo of the “Port Fit For a Queen” theme of the E2>V tasting.
/ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [ /Heart ] def /ShapesTitlesFill { [ {0.8 0 0 setrgbcolor} % Union-Jack red {0.9 setgray} % Silver {0 0 0.4 setrgbcolor} % Union-Jack blue {1 0.08 0.58 setrgbcolor} % Pink {1 43 51 div 0 setrgbcolor} % Gold ] ShapesIntX 2 mul ShapesIntY add WithinTitles add 5 mod 5 add 5 mod get exec fill } def /ShapesTitlesStroke { [ {0 setgray} % Black dup % Black {0.6 setgray} % Mid-gray {0 1 0 setrgbcolor} % Green {0.722 0.451 0.2 setrgbcolor} % Dark gold ] ShapesIntX 2 mul ShapesIntY add WithinTitles add 5 mod 5 add 5 mod get exec stroke } def There is a spreadsheet which shows that each side of the heart is a single Bézier cubic. |
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09 May 2018 ◊ The Big Fortified Tasting: Masterclasses www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180509_BFT_ColheitaMadeira.pdf
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Details in the BFT 2018 Show Catalogue. On the day Sandeman brought their own placemats; the same might and might not have been true for the others. |
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08 May 2018 ◊ Something nice from the sixties |
In the printouts was a slight bleed, a very thin line of filled black showing outside the clipped white stars at the edge of the Titles. Henceforth this can be prevented by setting to false the new parameters ShapesTitlesClip, ShapesAbovetitlesClip, ShapesBelowtitlesClip, ShapesOvertitlesClip, and ShapesPlaceNamesClip. /FlightSeparationLines [ [ % +SheetNum 0 [ [/Top 0 3] [/Bottom 2 5] ] % <= 1962 [ [/Top 8 11] [/Bottom 10 13] ] % 1966s [ [/Top 3 6 0.5] [3 6] [3 4] [0 3] [/Top 0 3] ] % Golden White 1963 ] % -SheetNum 0 ] def % /FlightSeparationLines |
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17 Apr 2018 ◊ Magnus: Cellar reduction and health check |
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10 Apr 2018 ◊ 1963s: A Second Wind? |
Several errors — I hope that my usual standard is better than this. SCD had withdrawn but was still on the placemats; DRT was on twice; and WG who replaced SCD wasn’t at all. And, after the event, comment was made about there being different values of OvertitleFontSizes. All of which was sloppy.
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05 Apr 2018 ◊ Tom’s Mystery 1922 |
The fonts /Didot and /Didot-Bold echoed the 1922 bottle.
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26 Mar 2018 ◊ DRT’s Protective Potion |
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14 Mar 2018 ◊ SQVP and mature LBV, blind |
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17 Feb 2018 ◊ Quinta do Noval in Leverkusen |
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15 Feb 2018 ◊ A New Subject of Her Majesty: Mr Wolfgang Starz |
Zoom-in on some of the many Union Jacks (in foreground filled in colour; in background stroked thin):
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18 Jan 2018 ◊ Port, Mostly 1982 |
This might have been the last placemats in which /Rays true def. (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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02 Jan 2018 ◊ Blind (Ideally 1878) |
DejaVu fonts are open-source, free, and cover a large subset of unicode characters. So tested here were /DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold (TitlesFont), DejaVuSerifCondensed (CircletextFont, HeaderFont) and /DejaVuSerif (NamesFont). The sans wasn’t liked. First use of VoteRecorderMonkeyWhenShowTotalRow and VoteRecorderMonkeyName.
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21 Dec 2017 ◊ Xmas Tasting (Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends) No placemats |
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20 Dec 2017 ◊ Luncheon, Otto’s, 1927s No placemats |
1927 Cockburn, Constantino, Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Martinez, Taylor, and Warre. |
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19 Dec 2017 ◊ 1977s |
 There are twelve n/m stars with n, m coprime; and inner radius, and angle at point, between that of a 7/2 and 7/3. These are 5/2, 7/2, 7/3, 8/3, 11/4, 12/5, 13/5, 17/7, 18/7, 19/8, 22/9, and 26/11. But the output wasn’t elegant: the high‑n stars looked too similar. Also, the spelling error is regretted. |
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30 Nov 2017 ◊ Sandemans and 1970s (for the Placemat Software’s 15th anniversary) |
Cancelled (venue booking failure) On 30 Nov 2002 placemats switched from being artisanal to being industrial. These placemats—more accurately, the glasses pages of these placemats—are very similar to the not-used last of the artisanals. |
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29 Nov 2017 ◊ Cálem |
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02 Nov 2017 ◊ 1970 Sighted, no duplicates |
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19 Oct 2017 ◊ Mature V.P. or L.B.V., blind, ideally in decanters |
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10 Oct 2017 ◊ Gould Campbell, 1924 to 1997 |
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28 Sep 2017 ◊ “Bring a container of port, or something a bit like port, to share with port-lovers” |
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07 Sep 2017 ◊ SQVP Blind |
Two of the fonts were not the most splendid victory. /CircletextFont /Estelle def /NamesFont /DobkinScript def
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09 Aug 2017 ◊ Summer Thirst, Blind |
The parameter VoteRecorderCrossedBox is not intuitive to use. Perhaps the parameter could be somehow reorganised: suggestions welcomed. /JDAW (JDA) {-0.04 Kern} (W)] def … /VoteRecorderCrossedBox {VoteRecorderShowTotalRow VoteRecorderSheetNum GetEU dup {pop Titles WithinTitles get ASCIIfy ThisName ASCIIfy eq ThisName length 0 gt ThisName JDAW ne and and Titles WithinTitles get JDAW eq ThisName (IDJ) eq and or} if} def
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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01 Aug 2017 ◊ Bring a Bottle of Port, or of Something Else, Blind or Not |
 Elegant design: /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def /InlineTitles false def |
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13 July 2017 ◊ La nuit avant le jour de Bastille |
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21 June 2017 ◊ Portugal, including The Factory House |
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08 June 2017 ◊ 1967s |
 /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Flower /Star /Heart] def /ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def /ShapesTitlesStroke {0 setgray 0.18 setlinewidth stroke} def |
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24 May 2017 ◊ Anything But Vintage IV, Blind, and Optionally for Somebody |
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10 May 2017 ◊ Bring a bottle blind |
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26 Apr 2017 ◊ Charity tasting at DFW in the Cheesegrater, arranged by AHB |
It is very rare to have seven glasses on a single /A4. |
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19 Apr 2017 ◊ Bring a bottle of port to share |
First use of /Harrington font since 20th September 2016; first use of /MidGrey since the Dow magnums on 17th January 2013 (4¼ years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with a serif font since 22nd March 2012 (5 years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with /Harrington since 20th November 2008 (8½ years before), the previous occasion having been 26th December 2007 (shortly before that, 9⅓ years before this). /CircletextFont /Harrington def /TitlesFont CircletextFont def /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow 0.005 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 18 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeProportionRadius 0.2 def /InlineTitles false def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingTitles false def
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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06 Apr 2017 ◊ 1955s |
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22 Mar 2017 ◊ Bring a Blind Bottle |
(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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09 Mar 2017 ◊ {Dow,Graham,Fonseca,Taylor,Warre} × {1980,1983,1985} |
Several images of this set of placemats were posted on JancisRobinson.com, and the tasting itself was reviewed in the weekend edition of the Financial Times (posted online late on 31 March 2017). /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ] [ 6 7 8 9 10 11 ] [ 12 13 14 ] ] def % Omitting some less interesting parameters /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /PackingStyles [ [ /RectangularDislocation /GlassesNumMin 5 ] /RightSide ] def
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01 Mar 2017 ◊ An Introductory Port Tasting |
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04 Feb 2017 ◊ CUTwC’s 62nd Annual Dinner |
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04 Feb 2017 ◊ 1977s in Leverkusen |
Stars made as for tasting on 01 Feb 2017.
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01 Feb 2017 ◊ 1977 from Magnum and Tappit Hen |
/Magnum (Magnum) def /TappitHenSans [(T) {-0.08 Kern} (appit Hen)] def /DecanterLabelsNumCopies {Belowtitles WithinTitles get dup TappitHenSans eq {pop 3} {Magnum eq {2} {1} ifelse} ifelse} def Also a very complicated PrologueCode, which creates [n,m] data and forms for the stars, then execformed by PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles (with /InlinePrefillWhite true def). That allowed the stars’ parameters to be computed together, to maximise resonance with CirclearraysN.
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04 Jan 2017 ◊ Bring a Blind Bottle |
First use of PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles.
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15 Dec 2016 ◊ The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
/GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
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14 Dec 2016 ◊ Luncheon at Otto’s |
/GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
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13 Dec 2016 ◊ Quinta do Noval |
/CircletextFont /Garamond def /TitlesFont /TrebuchetMS-Bold def /OvertitlesFont /Garamond-Bold def
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23 Nov 2016 ◊ Bring a Bottle, Sighted |
/LogThisExtra (Glasses on these sheets might be the cover photograph of The Book. Hence: Names omitted from Circlearrays, though not from CirclearraysTastingNotes etc; and three copies of JDAW glasses sheets, to allow post-spillage retakes.) def For which purpose: /JDAW [(JDA) {-0.05 Kern} (W)] def /Circlearrays [ CirclearraysTastingNotes {dup length 2 ge {dup length 1 sub 0 exch getinterval} if} forall ] def /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ] [ 0 2 3 4 5 ] % AHB and his SW63 are expected to be late, % meaning presumably post-photographs ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /GlassesNumCopies {ThisName JDAW eq {3} {1 SheetNum sub} ifelse} def The branding of its cork revealed the purported SW
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19 Nov 2016 ◊ Cálem vertical in Leverkusen |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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15 Nov 2016 ◊ Dinner with Johnny Symington at the Naval & Military Club |
Fonts at defaults of /Garamond and /TrebuchetMS-Bold. /PackingStyles [ [ /PostsAndLintel /CentralGlasses 0 ] ] def % /PackingStyles /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinTitles 2 le {1} {2} ifelse} def
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12 Oct 2016 ◊ Seventy or Seventy-Seven |
Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
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03 Oct 2016 ◊ DrDirk in London No placemats |
Blind: Dow 1970; Graham 1980; Churchill 1985. |
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20 Sep 2016 ◊ Port and Steak |
/CircletextFont /Harrington def /TitlesFont TitlesFont def /NamesFont /GilliusADFNo2-Bold def /HeaderFont NamesFont def
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16 Aug 2016 ◊ An Alex Emergency: Bring a blind bottle to share |
/CircletextFont /Gabrielle def /TitlesFont /Geo112ThinBold /def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesStarsPointsAndStepsArray [[3 1.31844] [4 1.79214] [5 2.27823] [6 2.77012] [7 3.26502] [8 3.76162] [9 4.25925]] def
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20 July 2016 ◊ Anything But Vintage III |
Quinta do Infantado’s standard abbreviation is now “In”. Font = /Harrington.
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June 2016 ◊ Drinks on becoming a ‘Cavaleiro’ of the Confraria do Vinho do Porto www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160600_Knights_of_the_Round_Table.pdf |
Font: /LucidaSansUnicode.
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15 June 2016 ◊ A trial of Fonseca 1963 |
After the placemats were printed it was discovered that the “proposed GC70 is actually Oporto-bottled”, so it was replaced by a Warre 1963; and “a small issue with the BN55 — in that I could not find it! Can I respectfully offer another 55 — A Mackenzie bottled by J Harvey and Sons Bristol.”
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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19 May 2016 ◊ 66@50 www.planetmeehan.com/dlfiles/160519/160519_1966_Horizontal.pdf |
Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
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30 Apr 2016 ◊ “Sensational Sercial” |
/FlightSeparations true def
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21 Apr 2016 ◊ Her Majesty is Ninety: A Double-Vertical of Dow and Graham (with Oscar, before the BFT) |
These placemats caused re-observation, and this time understanding, of a bug in Adobe Distiller. If FlightSeparationPaintSeparately is false and there are multiple lines on one page, the apparent ends of some lines are controlled by setlinejoin rather than setlinecap. (See manual.)
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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16–17 Apr 2016 ◊ FTLOP Madeirathon |
First appearance of neck tags. Fonts at defaults of /Garamond and /TrebuchetMS-Bold.
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04 Apr 2016 ◊ A Life or Death Emergency — bring a bottle of VP, blind or sighted |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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01 Apr 2016 ◊ A small vertical of Graham, in New York |
First use of CrossHatchingOutside.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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17 Mar 2016 ◊ The Fourth Annual Doty Cup |
First use of ShapesPrintQuickerDistillSlower, and of BackgroundTextsDecanterLabels (both of which were added to the software for these placemats). Zodiac characters, ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓, in fonts /Menlo-Regular and /Menlo-Bold (seemingly with identical zodiac glyphs), made as follows. /Zodiac [ [ /uni2648 (Aries) ] [ /uni2649 [(T) {-0.04 Kern} (aurus)] ] [ /uni264A (Gemini) ] [ /uni264B (Cancer) ] [ /uni264C (Leo) ] [ /uni264D (Virgo) ] [ /uni264E (Libra) ] [ /uni264F (Scorpius) ] [ /uni2650 (Sagittarius) ] [ /uni2651 (Capricorn) ] [ /uni2652 (Aquarius) ] [ /uni2653 (Pisces) ] ] def /Circlearrays [ Zodiac { [ exch dup 1 get exch [exch {/Menlo-Regular CurrentFontSize selectfont} exch 0 get {CircletextFont CurrentFontSize selectfont} ] ] } forall ] def /Titles [ Zodiac {0 get} forall ] def /SubtitlesTastingNotes [ Zodiac {1 get} forall ] def /TitlesFont /Menlo-Bold def • The zodiac was too confusing for the sommelier. Next year Titles to be ‘1’, ‘2’, …, ‘12’.
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26 Feb 2016 ◊ 1985 Horizontal at the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago |
/FlightSeparationLines [ [ % +SheetNum 0 [ % +Upper line [/Left 0 -1.0] [/Widdershins 0] [/Clockwise 3] [/Widdershins 1] [/Clockwise 4] [/Widdershins 2] [/Clockwise 5] [/Right 5 +1.0] ] % -Upper line [ % +Lower line [/Left 6 +1.0] [/Clockwise 6] [/Widdershins 3] [/Clockwise 7] [/Widdershins 4] [/Clockwise 8] [/Widdershins 5] [/Right 5 -1.0] ] % -Lower line ] % -SheetNum 0 ] def % /FlightSeparationLines |
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24 Feb 2016 ◊ Vesuvio |
/PaperType /A2 def, then trimmed in accordance with /OuterGlassesMarginB 3924887 1696576 3 sqrt mul sub 6 mul 18161 div def (≈ 325.862pt ≈ 115mm). Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, /TrebuchetMS-Bold, /TimesNewRomanPSMT.
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15 Feb 2016 ◊ Bring a blind bottle to share |
Activation of CrossHatchingBackground (renamed to CrossHatchingInside) and CrossHatchingTitles has become rare. Which is fortunate, given the clash with TastingNotesCirclesBehind. Bug fixed as of version dated 16:00 Monday 15th February 2016—too late for this tasting.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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13 Feb 2016 ◊ 1966 Horizontal, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
AP’s translations into German: /TastingNotesColumnHeadings [ (Zeiten) (Auge) (Nase) (Gaumen) (Punkte) ] def /VoteRecorderInstruction (Punkte, not rank.) def /DecantingNotesTopText [(V) {-0.06 Kern} (erkostungsnotizen)] def /DecantingNotesColumnHeadingTimes (Dekantierzeit) def /DecantingNotesColumnHeadingNotes (Korken, branding, &c) def /CorkDisplayTopText (Die Korken) def |
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08 Feb 2016 ◊ Bring A Bottle, Sighted |
First use of PagesToBeInserted: insertion of the food order into the PDF doesn’t break the page numbering, and that inserted page has an entry in the Table of Contents.
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30 Jan 2016 ◊ Home Drinking: testing a recent delivery (GM86, GM87, DB92, 2×WC92) |
Fonts at defaults of /Garamond and /TrebuchetMS-Bold.
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18 Jan 2016 ◊ The ‘We Must Drink More Port’ Tasting |
Made by Ben Read. |
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04 Jan 2016 ◊ Beer, then Young Port |
Test inclusion of the new Accounts page type (discussion).
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17 Dec 2015 ◊ The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
Traditionally in The Bell, Wendens Ambo; in 2015 in The White Horse, Newport. There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels are merely copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /GlassesNumCopies 0 def.
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15 Dec 2015 ◊ Seventy-Five at Forty |
Font /Albertus-Medium, as used for street signs in Lambeth. And precision kerning, both vertical and horizontal, in BackgroundTextsTNsTexts.
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28 Nov 2015 ◊ Fonseca, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
Manual setting of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences, necessitating /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def.
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25 Nov 2015 ◊ Horizontal of 1985s |
Complicated default value of new parameter BackgroundTextsAlignmentVertical worked well. Change in default fonts, Titles in /TrebuchetMS-Bold (sans-serif, pleasingly weighted, with bright negative spaces); Circlearrays in /Garamond (which I now prefer to /Garamond-Bold).
It is very rare to have seven glasses on a single /A4, for which the packing style /DiamondsPlus exists. Packomania has this pattern as optimal for seven circles in a 1×0.7 rectangle. /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 6 {} for ] [ 7 1 12 {} for ] [ 13 1 Titles length 1 sub {} for ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /ShrinkRadii [0 1 1] def It would have been better with 14 on /A3 and 5 on /A4, as was done for the Messias tasting on 23 Oct 2019. |
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24 Nov 2015 ◊ With George Sandeman at Otto’s |
Usually GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders is derived from GlassesOnTastingNotePages. But here it was more natural for the gray lines to separate types of wine, hence: /GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders [ [ [ 0 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 4 5 6 7 ] [ 8 9 10 11 ] ] ] def |
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27 Oct 2015 ◊ A relatively long-notice ‘emergency’ |
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14 Oct 2015 ◊ Woo-Woo not in Bangalore |
It has been said that “You can take the man out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the man”, and equivalently that “You can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl”. (Yes yes, man/girl thing: I’m quoting; find something important about which to have a bee in your bonnet. This isn’t it.) The same is true of the placemats: even without placemats, there will be placemats.
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21 Sep 2015 ◊ An Emergency |
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09 Sep 2015 ◊ Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom |
First use of software with BackgroundTextsOrientation. BackgroundTextsGlassesPaintCode very faint, 127⁄128, because my printer prints grays dark. The /Cochin font looks good, as does the /Optima-Regular. Also see the letter from Buckingham Palace.
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14 Aug 2015 ◊ The Elliotts in London: Bring a Bottle, Perhaps of Tawny |
Parameters GlassesCirclesFadingFactor and GlassesCrossedOut added to the software for this tasting. Comment welcomed, ideally in the software thread.
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27 July 2015 ◊ Bring a bottle to share |
Fonts: /Cardinal-Alternate (not worth repeating), and for the Names, /AbadiMT-CondensedLight.
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21 July 2015 ◊ “[S]ome kind of emergency”, “Blind” |
Fonts = /Cochin and /Cochin-Bold. Also /Rays true def.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) And with rays emphasised:
(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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07 July 2015 ◊ iVin @ Quevedo |
Made, at short notice, for Oscar. Happy to have helped. (But I forgot to remove the TPF logos.) /TitlesFont /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold def
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17 June 2015 ◊ The Sweet-Spot Vintages ({’66, ’70, ’77}×{D, G, T, W}), blind |
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03 June 2015 ◊ “Doty in London — Get it while it’s hot” |
Fonts: /Helvetica-Bold and /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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17 May 2015 ◊ Blind and atonal at Left Bank New York |
Though I dislike the numerals in /GillSans, the letters are very elegant, and nicely different to /Harrington.
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09 May 2015 ◊ 1945 Horizontal at The RAF Club (WoP) |
Review in The World of Fine Wine, issue 50, 2015. Fonts: /Garamond and /TrebuchetMS-Bold.
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05 May 2015 ◊ Fonseca’s Bicentenary |
Unusually, Titles, TitlesTastingNotes and TitlesVoteRecorder all different; and SubtitlesTastingNotes different from all of Abovetitles, Belowtitles, and Overtitles. Also, /TitlesFont /GilliusADF-BoldCond def.
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15 Apr 2015 ◊ Old Claret at Otto’s |
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10 Apr 2015 ◊ The Doty Cup, Elemental |
/Circlearrays [ [ (Hydrogen) (H) ] [ (Helium) (He) ] [ (Lithium) (Li) ] [ (Beryllium) (Be) ] [ (Boron) (B) ] [ (Carbon) (C) ] [ (Nitrogen) (N) ] [ (Oxygen) (O) ] [ (Fluorine) (F) ] [ (Neon) (Ne) ] [ (Sodium) (Na) ] [ (Magnesium) (Mg) ] ] def /Titles [ Circlearrays {1 get} forall ] def /Belowtitles [ Circlearrays length {()} repeat ] def It would have been better if the parameter since renamed to PackingNestingColumnMajor had been true. Fonts were /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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31 Mar 2015 ◊ Blint och informellt farväl till Magnus (och Dereks fem från ’65) |
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26 Mar 2015 ◊ Blind with a clue |
Having just devised the parameters to reproduce the pre-software placemats used on 12 May 2001, similar was used here.
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02 Mar 2015 ◊ Henry Shotton in London |
Fonts: mostly /Harrington, the Names being in /LucidaSans.
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15 Feb 2015 ◊ Lunch with Chris Doty |
Fonts: /Garamond-Bold and /Helvetica-Bold.
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09 Feb 2015 ◊ Port from the 1970s |
Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /PTSans-NarrowBold.
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19 Jan 2015 ◊ Fonseca, incl. a bottle from an imperial |
Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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17 Jan 2015 ◊ The 60th Anniversary of the C.U.Tw.C.: Fonseca 1985 in Imperial and Magnums (how it happened), and some Noval 1955 |
Decanter labels without glasses sheets, by /GlassesNumCopies 0 def. There are other ways this could have been done. |
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30 Dec 2014 ◊ Dr Dirk in London (blind ’60s and ’70s) |
Font: /AccanthisADFStdNo3-Italic.
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25 Dec 2014 ◊ Three tawnies, and two Warre LBVs |
Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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24 Dec 2014 ◊ A Few Tawnies |
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22 Dec 2014 ◊ Available and thirsty for 1970s |
Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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18 Dec 2014 ◊ Unknown Shipper, Peculiar Friends, again |
Decanter labels without glasses sheets, by /GlassesNumCopies 0 def. On the small sticky labels (5×13 on A4) the CircletextFont is an element of Names; everywhere else it is part of the wine description. Hence /CircletextFont {TypeOfPagesBeingRendered /StickyLabels ne {//true} {StickyLabelsTypeThis 0 eq} ifelse {TitlesFont} {NamesFont} ifelse} def Also the wrong date: this error is regretted.
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16 Dec 2014 ◊ Off The List at the Boot and Flogger |
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26 Nov 2014 ◊ 75 Years of Martinez |
Made by Phil Wakely.
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20 Nov 2014 ◊ Doty’s Thirsty Third Thursdays, blind |
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29 Oct 2014 ◊ Post-Refurbishment Bung Hole: Croft |
Echoing the formatting of the placemats of 16th January 2012. Also, decanter labels reparameterised and recoded.
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21 Oct 2014 ◊ Ramos Pinto: A Vertical |
/InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {Belowtitles WithinTitles get length 0 eq {2} {1} ifelse} def First use of the functionality controlled by BackgroundTextsPrePourRefit, StickyLabelsShowBackgroundTexts, and StickyLabelsShowCirclearraysInCircle. Fonts were /Garamond and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold.
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Late Sep 2014 ◊ Portugal, Sept 2014 www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140922_dinner.pdf |
Fonts were /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold.
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18 Sep 2014 ◊ The Scottish Independence Referendum, 18th Sept 2014 www.danieljewesbury.org/assorted/scottish/Independencereferendum.pdf |
Made by Daniel Jewesbury.
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18 Sep 2014 ◊ Thirsty Third Thursdays: ΦΣΚ |
Another for ThirstyThirdThursdays.com.
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15 Sep 2014 ◊ Port and Steak on the Barbie chez Christopher |
CMAG brought Ni83; DRT brought F85; and I can’t recall what I brought. Fonts are /AccanthisADFStd-Regular and a mite of /AccanthisADFStd-Italic.
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28 Aug 2014 ◊ One Bottler (Hedges & Butler) |
Wrong date: 28th August, not 27th August. This error is regretted.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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26 Aug 2014 ◊ AHB’s Cellar Reduction Party |
Format chosen to match the bottle bags (Arabic numbers in Times Roman font), which is why not that agreed in the
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August 2014 ◊ House Decanter Labels |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def, which then causes the default value of TitleAboveBelowOverToFitInCircle to be false. Fonts were /CentimeThinNormal and /AmazeNormal.
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16 July 2014 ◊ Doty’s TTT’s Mature Sauternes, blind |
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16 June 2014 ◊ 1997 Maturity Evaluation |
Lots of complicated parameters, available in full from the Param’s post. Much faffing with margins, so that those on the glasses sheet are different, MarginB being large. /FlightSeparations true def, and, even more unusually, with /FlightSeparationPaintSeparately true def. The first three items of FlightSeparationLines define /Closed paths, used by FlightSeparationPaintCode (“FlightSeparationLineNum 0 eq”, then 1, then 2) as clipping regions. Decorative lines, very thin, are painted. The remainder of FlightSeparationLines defines the boundary paths. FlightSeparationPaintCode does nothing with these until the last one, so these are in effect not …PaintSeparately’d. And that last item paints a thick black line inside a gsave … grestore, and then a less thick white line. The setlinecaps avoid bleed. There is a broader lesson from these complicated parameters. The program is written in PostScript, and is structured to allow, perhaps even encourage, code injection. In almost all parameters the user has full access to the whole of PostScript, and to the values of the variables maintained by the code. E.g., FlightSeparationLineNum is there to be used. That gives great power, but full access to that power requires being able to use PostScript.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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03 June 2014 ◊ Blind 1958s for Oscar Quevedo |
The most useful lesson from this tasting might be the explanation of the blinding technique.
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14 May 2014 ◊ Requested by Oscar Quevedo |
/ShrinkRadii [ 0 0 1 ] def and /MaxRadius 180 def to have larger table-wine glasses. /InlineTitles {WithinTitles 9 le} def for the differential patterning.
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30 Apr 2014 ◊ ‘Crazy 8s’ |
Example element of Titles: [(Ch) {UnderlineBegin} (8) {UnderlinePaint} (5)]. Fonts = /CoffeeMilkCrazy and /Optima-Bold. Temporarily, /EmptyGlassesPageAtStart true def, just to make this image which was used here. Image having been made, EmptyGlassesPageAtStart was reverted to false to make the printed and retained PDF. Also, after the tasting, the first use of GlassesAnnotations.
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23 Apr 2014 ◊ 1960 versus 1963 |
Six sheets used for decanter labels only, not-needed glasses pages being suppressed by code in NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies). Fonts: /NewBostonCondensedNormal and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold; /NewBostonCondensedItalic and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBoldItalic.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)
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22 Apr 2014 ◊ 1966: a small horizontal |
New version of code in which an upper bound for InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours is computed automatically (as asked on 02 Apr 2014), and in which CircletextsTweakSize causes Circlearrays to be tight packed (as asked on 21 Mar 2014). Font = /Optima-Bold.
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05 Apr 2014 ◊ DRT and his astronomy chums at the “SGL9 Star Party Tasting”. |
Some planets: ♂ ♃ ♄ ♅ ♆ ♇. Fonts: /Optima-Regular, /AppleSymbols, and /Optima-Bold. Example element of Circlearrays: [ (Neptune) [{TitlesFont CurrentFontSize selectfont} /uni2646 {CircletextFont CurrentFontSize selectfont}] ]
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02 Apr 2014 ◊ Graham 1980: a trial |
Can InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours be computed automatically? An algorithm question has been asked on comp.lang.postscript. (Edit: done as InlineTitlesAttemptMinimiseNumContours.)
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21 Mar 2014 ◊ The Doty Cup 2014 |
/CircletextsMinCopies {WithinTitles 3 eq {5} {1} ifelse} def This gave the tightest packing. Does it suggest a need for a new parameter that automatically does a tight-packing optimisation? Hmm. Maybe. (Edit: done, as CircletextsTweakSize.) Also, the first use of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences. Fonts: /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
(Opening words of the twelve books of Milton’s Paradise Lost.) |
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26 Feb 2014 ◊ Not Drinking TV64 |
Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Helvetica-Bold.
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18 Feb 2014 ◊ Thirsty at Half Term |
Crosses (✠ ☩ ♰ ♱ ☨ ☦), in font /Menlo-Regular, glyphs /uni2720, /uni2629, /uni2670, /uni2671, /uni2628, /uni2626.
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01 Feb 2014 ◊ The 59th Annual Dinner of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
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27 Jan 2014 ◊ Taylor 1985: a trial |
/VerticalMiddlingTitles /MatchNone def looked more elegant with the single Greek letters.
Other than some decanter labels, the only use of FillTitles between July 2012 and November 2019. |
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08 Jan 2014 ◊ Blind in the Bung Hole ∵ Ronnie Visits London |
Vanilla, except /TitleMaxHeightProportionInnerRadius 1 def to constrain the size of the asterisk.
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02 Jan 2014 ◊ Bring a Bottle to Share, ∵ Dr. Dirk in London |
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19 Dec 2013 ◊ Unknown Shipper, Peculiar Friends, Revisited |
There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels can only contain copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 def (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies). The previous use of the font /SnowtopCaps was ghastly. This use was better. |
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07 Dec 2013 ◊ 1955 Horizontal for Pilsen Homeless Health Services |
Made by Glenn Elliott. These appeared in the Huffington Post of 20 Dec 2013 (link to archive.org as original has lost its picture). (Separately, the standard abbreviation for Cockburn has become ‘Ck’.)
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28 Nov 2013 ◊ ‘What?’, after the Berry Bros & Rudd Port Walk |
Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Helvetica-Bold.
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27 Nov 2013 ◊ 83@30 |
Made by Daniel Jewesbury. The ZX Spectrum font was very ’80s.
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31 Oct 2013 ◊ All Hallows’ Eve: Remember the Dead (Blinded and Decorated) |
Fonts: /Firecat-Medium, /LucidaBlackletter, and /AmericanTypewriter-Light.
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11-12 Oct 2013 ◊ 1963s, for AHB’s Quinquagenary www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131011_1963_ahb.pdf |
At 433 pages for a tasting over three sessions and two locations, much use of the PageOrdering… parameters. Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GillSansMT-ExtCondensedBold.
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08 Oct 2013 ◊ Andy Velebil in London www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008.pdf |
Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GilliusADFNo2-BoldCond.
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02 Oct 2013 ◊ Port |
Oops: wrong date on the placemats. Wednesday 2nd, not 3rd. Anyway, another airing for the /Harrington font.
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25 Sep 2013 ◊ Bring A Bottle of Vintage Port (G70 magnum, GB70, T70, N66, W77, G??) |
Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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10 Sep 2013 ◊ “Bring a bottle wrapped in foil” |
Usage of VoteRecorderCrossedBox and VerticalMiddlingTitles. Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GillSansMT-Condensed.
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10 Aug 2013 ◊ FTLoP 8th Anniversary |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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18 July 2013 ◊ Doty’s TTT’s Champagne |
(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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10 July 2013 ◊ DRT’s Emergency, but cancelled and replaced with beer. |
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27 June 2013 ◊ Doty in London for Wimbledon and 1966s |
The /Cochin-Bold font has gravitas. Also, it was from this tasting that I started posting PNGs of the placemats in the organisation threads.
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04 June 2013 ◊ Griff Returns Down Under |
First use of RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray: /RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray {180 WithinTitles mul 1 Circlearrays length sub div} def. Fonts were /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Helvetica-Bold.
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18–19 May 2013 ◊ Madeirathon www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130519_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130518_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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19 May 2013 ◊ Thirsty 3rd Thursday: The Riesling Lottery |
/GilliusADFNo2-Bold and /GoudyOldStyleT-Regular look good. |
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24 Apr 2013 ◊ 2007 LBVs, after the BFT |
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23 Apr 2013 ◊ The Dirty Dozen |
Fonts = /Palatino-Roman and /Optima-Bold.
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20 Apr 2013 ◊ 1983 Vintage Port Retrospective www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130420_1983a_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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18 Apr 2013 ◊ ThirstyThirdThursdays: The Price is Right |
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17 Apr 2013 ◊ Oscar in London |
Fonts = /Modern-Regular and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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02 Apr 2013 ◊ 1983-1985 Double Horizontal |
A rare use of BackgroundTextsGlasses. Fonts = /Cochin-Bold and /BlueHighwayFreeCondensed.
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22 Mar 2013 ◊ Taylor vertical |
Large Circlearrays array, from which other arrays and formatting computed. There are similarities with placemats of and referenced in the Graham and Malvedos on 13 Nov 2012. Fonts were /BookmanOldStyle, /Tahoma-Bold, /LiberateBold. The variation in formatting was beautiful but disfunctional, as such variation impedes colour comparison. But any one of these four designs, with the Titles in plain sans-serif and the Overtitles in /LiberateBold, would be elegant, and should be repeated. See PrePourRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles, which was coded following this tasting.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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21 Mar 2013 ◊ ThirstyThirdThursdays: “California versus France: Blind Smackdown” |
A rare use of PaintBackgroundCode, and, even rarer, that containing a use of MakePathConnectingGlasses. The layout could have been done with a blank glass and /PseudoHexagonal, but was instead done with /PermittedPackingStyles [ [ [1 1] [5 1] [0 2] [2 2] [4 2] [6 2] [0 0] [2 0] [4 0] [6 0] ] ] def, which also had the advantage of putting the glasses into the desired order. (Edit June 2013 and May 2016: since this placemat was made PermittedPackingStyles has been renamed to PackingStyles and its workings changed.) |
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09 Mar 2013 ◊ Velhíssimo Verdelho |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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06 Mar 2013 ◊ Blind at short notice |
Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /LucidaSans-Demi.
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26 Feb 2013 ◊ Ronnie Roots visits London |
In the six years between this tasting and this writing, my style has become sparser.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /CircletextFont /AsiaNormal def /TitlesFont /AsiaThinBold def /OutlineTitles true def /OutlineTitlesInnerWidthWhite 7.2 def /OutlineTitlesMultiplierWhite 0.875 def |
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21 Feb 2013 ◊ Partly-blind 1970 horizontal: Chris Doty’s ThirstyThirdThursdays.com |
/TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def |
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20 Feb 2013 ◊ Alex’s Mystery Theme after the New Douro Tasting |
The variation in brightness was not clever. I had underappreciated the merits of consistency.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /CrossHatchingBackground {WithinTitles 5 le WithinTitles 3 ge and} def /CrossHatchingTitles {WithinTitles 6 ge} def /InlineTitles {WithinTitles 5 le} def /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinTitles 2 le {12} {2} ifelse} def (March 2016: CrossHatchingBackground renamed to CrossHatchingInside.) |
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15 Feb 2013 ◊ “Doty’s Triumphant Return” |
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06 Feb 2013 ◊ Some Churchill and some halves of Dow Bomfim |
/RaysLinesPerGlass 68 def /MaxRadius 130 def (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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26 Jan 2013 ◊ CUTwC Dinner |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
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18–20 Jan 2013 ◊ Extras for a trip to Portugal |
Fonts: /AmerettoNormal and /AmerettoThinBold, with Greek letters in /Helvetica. Greeks only: /Greeks [ /alpha /beta /gamma /delta /epsilon /zeta /eta /theta /iota /kappa /lambda /mu /nu /xi /omicron /pi /rho /sigma /tau /upsilon /phi /chi /psi /omega ] def % /Greeks /Circlearrays [ Greeks {[ exch dup dup length string cvs exch [exch {/Helvetica CurrentFontSize selectfont} exch] ]} forall ] def % /Circlearrays /Titles [ Circlearrays {1 get} forall ] def /PrePourReverseOrder false def /PageOrderingNonDecanterLabelGlasses [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingTastingNotePages [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingVoteRecorder [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingCorkDisplay [ 0 1 2 3 ] def Sunday 20th only: /FooterCenterText-Backstage [ 0 2 4 {ExternalLinks exch get ( )} for pop ] def, which has never before been changed from its default value.
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Lunch, 20 Jan 2013 ◊ Light lunch |
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Dinner, 19 Jan 2013 ◊ A Working Dinner with Christiano Van Zeller |
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Lunch, 19 Jan 2013 ◊ A Working Lunch with George Sandeman |
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18 Jan 2013 ◊ With Five Symingtons |
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17 Jan 2013 ◊ Dow magnums |
Fonts = /BookAntiqua-Italic, /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold and /BookmanOldStyle.
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03 Jan 2013 ◊ Blind (3×Ck55) |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
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13 Dec 2012 ◊ The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels can only contain copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 def (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies). |
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05 Dec 2012 ◊ Borges muito velho and friends |
Fonts were /EdwardianScriptITC and /Futura-CondensedMedium.
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19 Nov 2012 ◊ The Hix Oyster & Chop House EC1M 6BN |
The font, /PuritanSwash-Bold, was not such a good idea.
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13 Nov 2012 ◊ A Smattering of Graham and Malvedos |
Arrays in PermittedPackingStyles (since renamed to PackingStyles); and many parameters auto-computed from Circlearrays. The formatting ‘convention’ was much used for verticals comprising a mixture of a shipper’s VPs and SQVPs. But my opinion has shifted: the variation in brightness makes it harder to compare colours. VPs were shown black, with the shipper name in the Belowtitles. SQVPs were shown with InlineTitles being true, and the Quinta name in the Overtitles. Variations on this had been used for the Delaforce on 24 Apr 2012, Fonseca on 04 Apr 2011, and Malvedos on 22 Mar 2010. |
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23 Oct 2012 ◊ A Trio of 1963s |
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20 Oct 2012 ◊ Blind in Los Angeles, 1 to 15 |
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15 Oct 2012 ◊ The Bung Hole, Delaforce 1958 and friends |
Flowers in /Calibri-Bold; and the first use of TastingNotesCirclesBehind.
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09 Oct 2012 ◊ Blind, 1 to 6, in Portal Restaurant EC1M 4EH |
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24 Sep 2012 ◊ Warre versus Fonseca |
Placemats made by Phil Wakely, who included shipper-logo EPS elements. |
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18 Sep 2012 ◊ Mostly Sandeman Vau |
Fonts: /TrebuchetMS and /Garamond-Bold.
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04 Sep 2012 ◊ Blind and Mis-Guessed |
Font = /IkariusADFStd-Bold; and /ShapesStarsPointsAndStepsArray [ [7 2] dup [7 3] dup dup dup dup ] def.
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25 July 2012 ◊ Olympic Years, ’48 to ’08, at the Portuguese Embassy |
A complicated array in PermittedPackingStyles (since renamed to PackingStyles); and a rare use of FlightSeparationLines. There was lots of code in the elements of Names, which in newer versions of the software can be done more easily using NamesTastingNotes, NamesVoteRecorder, NamesStickyLabels, and NamesPlaceNames. Fonts: /Baskerville-SemiBold and /LiberateBold.
Other than some decanter labels, the last use of FillTitles until January 2014. |
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10 July 2012 ◊ A Blind Emergency |
Fonts: /FreebooterScript and /AccanthisADFStd-Bold.
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15 June 2012 ◊ Dinner with Miguel |
Font: /FranklinGothic-Medium.
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14 June 2012 ◊ Some 1912s |
Font: /FranklinGothic-Medium.
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13 June 2012 ◊ Dinner at The Yeatman |
Font: /FranklinGothic-Medium.
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13 June 2012 ◊ 1955s at the Sandeman Lodge (originally to be at the Ferreira Lodge). |
Font: /FranklinGothic-Medium.
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12 June 2012 ◊ Graham at Bomfim |
/CircletextFont /FranklinGothic-Medium def /TitlesFont CircletextFont def /OvertitlesFont /QuillineScriptThin def |
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11 June 2012 ◊ Fonseca at Bomfim |
Fonts: /FranklinGothic-Medium and /QuillineScriptThin.
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06 June 2012 ◊ Farewell to our favourite waitress at the Bunghole |
Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /CenturyGothic-Bold.
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24 May 2012 ◊ JDAW drinking Croft 2005 LBV near the Bunghole |
It could be argued, and not wholly mischievously, that for one person and one Port, a placemat might be unnecessary. It could be argued.
/Titles [ [(C) {CurrentFontSize dup -0.48 mul exch 0.12 mul rmoveto} (r05)] ] def % Uninteresting lines omitted /CircletextFont /Baskerville def /TitlesFont /BernieCondensedBold def |
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15 May 2012 ◊ Horizontal of 1970 honouring Ronnie Roots |
Rays and RaysLinesToPaperEdge. (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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02 May 2012 ◊ Post-BFT with Johnny Symington and the Graham 1952 Single Harvest Tawny |
The Titles in /TrebuchetMS-Bold (sans-serif, pleasingly weighted, with bright negative spaces) worked well, and worked well with Circlearrays in /Garamond-Bold. |
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24 Apr 2012 ◊ Delaforce Vertical, 1960 to 2007 |
This was then the usual format for a vertical of VP and SQVP: (e.g., Graham and Malvedos on 13 Nov 2012). But the variation in brightness makes it difficult to compare colours. Hence for this class of designs my enthusiasm has diminished.
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17 Apr 2012 ◊ Six × 1966 |
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11 Apr 2012 ◊ A Small Blind Emergency |
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31 Mar 2012 ◊ Roy’s Top 12 Tasting |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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29 Mar 2012 ◊ The Birthday Boys, ruby then vintage |
Striking variation in formatting within the placemats. With hindsight, such variation makes it more difficult to compare colours.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)
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23 Mar 2012 ◊ “The Reserve Ruby Taste Off” |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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22 Mar 2012 ◊ JDAW’s oddments, being some unimpressive ports purchased in Paris |
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12 Mar 2012 ◊ Cynthia and Seven Blind Men |
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10 Mar 2012 ◊ “The Transcendental Terrantez Tasting” |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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02 Mar 2012 ◊ 1980s in Leverkusen |
Rotate180AlternateNames; and font = /TrebuchetMS-Bold, which later become the default TitlesFont.
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29 Feb 2012 ◊ The Annual 29th February Leaping (2012) |
Font = /Georgia.
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22 Feb 2012 ◊ Jubilee (though some of the ‘Jubilee’ connections were tenuous) |
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14 Feb 2012 ◊ Valentine’s Day at El Vino’s |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
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08 Feb 2012 ◊ Blind at The Bung Hole |
First item of Circlearrays is [ [JDAW {-0.12 Kern} {SubscriptOn} (1) {SubscriptOff}] ], which had been preceded by /JDAW [(JDA) {-0.06 Kern} (W)] def. |
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31 Jan 2012 ◊ A toast to Ko-ichi’s Retirement |
Perhaps both OutlineTitles and Rays was too psychedelic?
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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16 Jan 2012 ◊ Croft in The Bunghole |
Rotate180AlternateNames.
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10 Jan 2012 ◊ The Bunghole: a splendid trial |
Font: /Georgia. Last item of Circlearrays: [ [/bar /brokenbar /bar] ].
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03 Jan 2012 ◊ 1977 at The Crusting Pipe |
A pleasing format for a horizontal. /TitlesFont /LucidaSans-Demi def, and /InlineTitles true def (with /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 12 def, which was then its default value). Every item of Abovetitles was [(1) {-0.12 Kern} (977)], being a version of “1977” kerned by 0.12×the font size, and shown unadorned, so /InlineAbovetitles false def. But perhaps next time the CircletextFont should be a serif font, rather than /LucidaSans. Perhaps, perhaps not.
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20 Dec 2011 ◊ Vintage Port at The Crusting Pipe (W70, F70, T70, D83, GC85) |
Font: /LucidaBright-Demi.
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15 Dec 2011 ◊ The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
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30 Nov 2011 ◊ Dead Cow & Vintage Port (Ck67, Mz67, Ck75, T77, W77, Mz85) |
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17 Nov 2011 ◊ RAYC’s birthday, a triple-vertical of GC + SW + QH |
This tasting caused the /Array base style to be a valid value in the parameter now called PermittedPackingStyles (which has since been renamed to PackingStyles). |
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16 Nov 2011 ◊ SushiNorth at TCP with QH77 + Ch85 |
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08 Nov 2011 ◊ Port With Star Quality ★ ☆ |
A compound string can include code that makes a path. Maybe this was excessive. Also the first use of cork-display pages. |
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27 Oct 2011 ◊ London with StevieCage & RonnieRoots By request, no placemats |
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11 Oct 2011 ◊ {D, F, G, T} × {’63, ’66, ’70, ’77} |
Complicated placemats, with BackgroundTextsGlassesTexts, and code in parameters such as NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies), PrePourNumCopies, StickyLabelsNumCopies, and HeaderCenterText. Fonts: /AmericanTypewriter, /AmericanTypewriter-Condensed, and /AmericanTypewriter-CondensedBold. The backgrounds are in the code as vector images; as of Jan 2020 it isn’t clear from what font they were derived.
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22 Sep 2011 ◊ Made for a shipper |
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19 Sep 2011 ◊ A Ragbag of Good Port, at the Steak Exchange |
/CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 5 def, an unusually small value.
Fonts /TrebuchetMS-Bold and /TrebuchetMS. |
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01 Sep 2011 ◊ G-man in San Francisco |
First placemats in which the PDF has a Table of Contents, entailing the first use of ExternalLinks. Fonts = /Cambria and /Cambria-Bold.
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19 Aug 2011 ◊ Emergency Drinking at The Crusting Pipe |
Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPSMT, /ArialRoundedMTBold, /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT.
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08 Aug 2011 ◊ DB98 + TTF86 in Paris |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
In the early 2019 code, an approximation to this look can be made with PostScript fragments resembling: /SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def /TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def /OvertitlesFont /Baskerville-Bold def /InlineTitles true def /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 10 def /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ColourSchemeOvertitles /Black def |
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08 Aug 2011 ◊ Port from the Nineteen Nineties, at The Steak Exchange |
Non-constant RaysLinesPerGlass. (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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19 July 2011 ◊ With Richard Mayson |
First inclusion of decanting-notes pages. Font = /Optima-Bold.
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07 July 2011 ◊ Anything But Vintage II (the Warm-up), at The Crusting Pipe |
Font = /GoudyOldStyleT-Bold.
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28 June 2011 ◊ Three Blind Men, in The Crusting Pipe |
My preference would have been a little lighter and simpler, but was asked “… tasting in London tomorrow evening …. Please make your finest … blind tasting one-page placemat using as many new features as possible.” (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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23 June 2011 ◊ The Quest for Phil W’s new house port |
Placemats made by RAYC. |
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09 June 2011 ◊ A test of The Steak Exchange (T48, Ck67, Dl70, G91) |
Whatever weird folly caused me to choose the font /BlackwoodCastle, it won’t happen again. And it is rare to see SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes in /Portrait.
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13 May 2011 ◊ Sandeman Vertical |
Fonts were /Optima-Regular and /Didot-Bold; for the two-digit years the latter worked very well.
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06 May 2011 ◊ London welcomes g-man, blind |
Fonts: /AmazeNormal and /FusiCondensedBold.
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23 Apr 2011 ◊ The Port Society launches on St George’s Day |
The /Lautenbach-Normal font was an error. It’s horrible.
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16 Apr 2011 ◊ In Stouby, Denmark |
As only two Names present, likely incomplete and hence not used. |
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04 Apr 2011 ◊ Fonseca Guimaraens, and some Fonseca |
It was from these placemats that the log page was shown by default—the log-page code having been present since 20th January 2008. See the comment on formatting in the Malvedos tasting on 13 Nov 2012. Fonts were /Optima-Regular, /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, and /Optima-Bold.
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03 Apr 2011 ◊ Pre-FG warm-up session |
Small variation of formatting by name, a feature later removed from the code. Font = /EdenMills-Bold.
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15 Mar 2011 ◊ Blind at El Vino’s |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. Font = /Harrington.
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10 Mar 2011 ◊ Port Worth Sharing, blind at The Crusting Pipe |
Font = /Didot-Bold.
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24 Feb 2011 ◊ |
And as had been foretold by the ancients, a madness came upon the land. And the madness was ugly; the madness was inconsistent; and the madness was gratuitous.
/TitlesFont /FloralCondensedNormal def |
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22 Feb 2011 ◊ Half Bottles |
Font = /Didot-Bold.
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06 Feb 2011 ◊ Emergency Tasting at The Crusting Pipe (Df66, Cr66, TV67, SW83) |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes, the image being of the page of a left-hander.
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29 Jan 2011 ◊ Tasting-note sheets for use at the CUTwC Dinner |
The only use so far, ≤2012, of /OutlineTitlesSuppressForDecanterLabels false def. |
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26 Jan 2011 ◊ LBV Old and New, Part 2 |
This was not my finest moment. Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Arial-BoldMT.
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25 Dec 2010 ◊ |
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19 Dec 2010 ◊ Emergency in Wokingham & Paris |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
/TitlesFont /FusiCondensedNormal def /NamesFont /FusiExtendedBold def |
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16 Dec 2010 ◊ The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends at The Bell |
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10 Dec 2010 ◊ 1955 Horizontal in Leverkusen, Köln |
Fonts: /Baskerville-Bold, /Baskerville-Italic, and /Baskerville. In summer 2011, the scaling of the pre-pour pages was much improved, such that the content became bigger and the wasted space became less.
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02 Dec 2010 ◊ Two Ports, total cost ≤£30 (perhaps cancelled?) |
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12 Nov 2010 ◊ Niepoort vertical in Leverkusen, Köln |
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12 Oct 2010 ◊ 55s at 55 |
My enthusiasm for the OutlineTitles has greatly diminished. YMMV.
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28 Sep 2010 ◊ |
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07 Sep 2010 ◊ Dow and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira at The Crusting Pipe. |
There’s so much wrong with this. The dense black is ugly. The inconsistency between the black and gray probably impeded colour comparison. And thirteen glasses fit perfectly well on a single /A3. But if the look is rather 1960s, not wholly inappropriate. Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) /ColourSchemeTitles {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 1 get (Dow) eq {/Black} {/MidGrey} ifelse} def, and, mutatis mutandis, ColourSchemeSubtitles. |
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26 Aug 2010 ◊ Blind at TCP (Df85, W70, QH77, Cá85, Ck75, S82) |
Fonts: /Baskerville-Bold and /Handwriting-Dakota.
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05 Aug 2010 ◊ Anything But Vintage (I) |
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15 July 2010 ◊ Blind Tasting of 1970 Vintage Port |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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09 July 2010 ◊ The F-Plan II, in Utrecht |
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21 June 2010 ◊ 1982 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe. |
First inclusion of vote-recorder pages. And /TitlesFont /BasqueThinNormal def.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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19 May 2010 ◊ 1960 Horizontal at The Bowler |
Fonts: /Cochin-Bold, /Helvetica-Bold, and /Cochin, for the parameters since renamed to, respectively, CircletextFont, TitlesFont, and BelowtitlesFont.
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14 May 2010 ◊ 1978 Horizontal at The RAF Club |
(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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06 May 2010 ◊ BMHR at an election party in Hove |
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06 May 2010 ◊ Blind Port from Election Years (on day of UK General Election) |
Fonts = /BookAntiqua, /BookAntiqua-Bold, /BookAntiqua-Italic. Images are for a right-hander, and for a left-hander. /SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def
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30 Apr 2010 ◊ Two Brits on Tour www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100430_BritsOnTour_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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19 Apr 2010 ◊ Blind at TCP |
Fonts: /BookAntiqua-Italic; /BookAntiqua; /BookAntiqua-Bold.
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17 Apr 2010 ◊ Warre II (1945 to 1985), in Sussex |
Excessively coloured Rays, the RaysStrokeCode (formerly) being at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat-code.html. (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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16 Apr 2010 ◊ Pre-Warre Exercises |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes, with elegant use of /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 2 def (subsequently becoming the default). Fonts were /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /HelveticaNeue-Bold.
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10 Apr 2010 ◊ Whiskies from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society |
Tested: the placemats work with barley as well as grape. And /Rays {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 2 get (Speyside) ne} def
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.) |
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22 Mar 2010 ◊ Graham’s Malvedos Vertical at The RAF Club |
First use of pre-pour pages (though with a Penrose tiling since removed from code). This was for a while the canonical format for a vertical comprising a mixture of VP and SQVP: see the Smattering of Graham and Malvedos tasting for links. But the variation in darkness impedes colour comparison: I am now less keen. Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPSMT; /Optima-Bold; /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT.
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22 Mar 2010 ◊ The Graham’s Vertical (G80 and G85) |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPSMT; /Optima-Bold; /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT.
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17 Mar 2010 ◊ Emergency, ¾ flawed |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes, the image being of the page of a left-hander. Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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16 Mar 2010 ◊ 1970: A Near-Minimal Horizontal |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. Fonts were /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Antiqua101ThinBold.
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09 Mar 2010 ◊ Bring A Bottle to TCP |
Font = /DukeThinBold. The first placemats with named pages: … /PAGELABEL pdfmark.
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23 Feb 2010 ◊ Vesuvio Vertical, 1989 to 2008 |
Page-ordering parameters used to split into two flights. The design is horrendously baroque. Do not repeat this. Indeed, don’t even look — avert your delicate gaze. Shield your eyes. |
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11 Feb 2010 ◊ Oscar Quevedo in London |
Too many glasses per /A4, and excessively complicated Circlearrays.
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01 Feb 2010 ◊ Bring a Bottle to the Library, with BMHR |
The visual effect is cool, but not necessarily appropriate for a port tasting. Done with TitlesFont = /BasqueNormal; OutlineTitlesInnerWidthWhite = 6; OutlineTitlesMultiplierWhite = 0.9375; OutlineTitlesMaxNum = 96; and OutlineTitlesTargetTotalDistanceProportionRadius = 1.04.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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01 Feb 2010 ◊ Bring a Bottle to the Library |
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30 Jan 2010 ◊ Decanter labels for the CUTwC Dinner |
Fonts: /LucidaBright-Demi and /LiberateNormal. In October 2014 the decanter labels were reparameterised and recoded.
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05 Jan 2010 ◊ Four at TCP (O70, Cr70, W77, N85) |
Aggressively kerned.
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17 Dec 2009 ◊ The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
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13 Nov 2009 ◊ Port To Share (Ck60, D63, D80, Fr63, F70, GC70, G63, G70, Mz60, Mg63) www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091113_share.pdf 1966 versus 1967 |
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28 Oct 2009 ◊ Portal Restaurant (Pç77, T77, Mg77, T63, D83) |
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23 Oct 2009 ◊ Au Relais des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris 19ème (KL70, Ch85, T85, Qv07) |
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14 Oct 2009 ◊ Fonseca Emergency |
Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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02 Oct 2009 ◊ Warre Vertical, 1947 to 2007, at the RAF Club |
For a pure vertical, without a need for VP-SQVP distinctions, the elegance is enhanced by the slender font /Geo112ThinBold. The cursive “Warre” was in /AmazeItalic; the Circlearrays in /AmerettoCondensedBold.
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15 Sep 2009 ◊ Demonstration page |
The parameter (later renamed to) MirrorPagesGlasses was intended to allow printing onto the underside of acetate. As of end-2019, it has not been used live: this was merely a test example.
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11-12 Sep 2009 ◊ DRT in Paris www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090912b.pdf |
First inclusion of place-name pages. And an example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. Font = /BeagleBold.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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08 Sep 2009 ◊ A Small 1994 Horizontal |
Fonts: /Cochin-Bold and /Courier-Oblique. The complicated element of Circlearrays = “[ [{/ReversionFont CurrentFontName def /Courier-Oblique CurrentFontSize selectfont /ThisGray currentgray def 0.5 setgray} (AHB) {ThisGray setgray ReversionFont CurrentFontSize selectfont}] (1994) ]”.
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30 July 2009 ◊ FTLoP 4th Anniversary |
Made by Glenn Elliott.
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21 July 2009 ◊ Eighties Night at TCP |
First inclusion in the code, invisible to output, of the error-tracing code parameterised by DeBugLevel. The name-dependency in the formatting is no longer possible: /OutlineTitles {ThisName Titles WithinTitles get eq} def. Fonts: /Palatino-Bold and /Chalkboard-Bold.
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07 July 2009 ◊ Farewell to New York |
The abbreviation for Cockburn was later standardised to “Ck”. In February-2019 parameters, layout specified with /PackingStyles [ /PostsAndLintel ] def.
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29 June 2009 ◊ The Best Mature Ports to Drink Today, at Quinta do Noval |
The parameter since renamed to CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute was deffed to 9. Fonts = /Palatino-Bold; /ArialRoundedMTBold; /Harrington.
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27 June 2009 ◊ Lunch at Quinta S. Luiz |
The parameter since renamed to CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute was deffed to 9.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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26 June 2009 ◊ Sandeman Lunch at Quinta do Seixo |
The parameter since renamed to CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute was deffed to 9. Fonts were /Palatino-Bold, /ArialRoundedMTBold, /Harrington.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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26 June 2009 ◊ Decent Drinking Port at Quinta do Passadouro |
It used to be possible to vary, by NameNum, the Titles etc and their decoration. That is, each person would get placemats that varied by more than just the name on the page. The parameter enabling this, VariesByNameTitlesAboveBelowOverOrnaments, became to difficult to reconcile with the growing number of page types, so after a long time of not working properly, was removed from the code in early 2019. Fonts were /Palatino-Bold, /ArialRoundedMTBold, and /Harrington. Elegantly kerned: [(T) {-0.1 Kern} (48)].
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13 June 2009 ◊ Fonseca Minivertical |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. The fonts were /BookmanOldStyle, /Optima-Bold, and /EdwardianScriptITC.
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11 June 2009 ◊ The Leaky Bottle |
From this version the naming of internal parameters was standardised, so that parameters could refer to the likes of SheetNum, WithinTitles, and WithinPage.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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June 2009 ◊ Spares for Portugal |
/alpha /beta /gamma …; |
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28 May 2009 ◊ 1977 Mini-Horizontal (Cr, W, Df, Guedes, SW, Fr) |
Placemats made by JES. |
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15 May 2009 ◊ Some Port for JB’s Class |
Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT/
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18 Apr 2009 ◊ Classic years of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre |
Tacky to mention prices. Could have Kerned the ‘T48’. Fonts = /Palatino-Bold and /ArialRoundedMTBold.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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20 Mar 2009 ◊ Emergency Port (GC80, GC97, Rr95, Rr99) |
Font = /ArialRoundedMTBold.
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13 Feb 2009 ◊ A Vertical of Graham’s in Brooklyn |
Fonts = /BellMTItalic and /Helvetica-Bold.
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01 Feb 2009 ◊ FTLoP Gala: Port, ≤1970 |
Made by Glenn Elliott.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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31 Jan 2009 ◊ FTLoP Gala: 1977 versus 1985 www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090131_Gala_1977_1985_GlennElliott.pdf |
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31 Jan 2009 ◊ FTLoP Gala: 1994s |
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30 Jan 2009 ◊ FTLoP Gala: Madeira www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Madeira_GlennElliott.pdf |
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30 Jan 2009 ◊ FTLoP Gala: Colheitas www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Colheita_GlennElliott.pdf |
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30 Jan 2009 ◊ 1970 Horizontal at the RAF Club www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_1970.pdf |
Fonts: /Baskerville-Italic, /Baskerville-Bold, and /Baskerville. The first use of InlineTitles. The spelling error is regretted. And the instructions were assembled in Illustrator, using the font /HoneyScript-SemiBold.
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15 Jan 2009 ◊ The Crusting Pipe: W70, TV67, MG85, F63, and a South African |
The font, /SnowtopCaps, is ghastly. And /BernieItalic, though less awful, isn’t worth reusing.
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04 Jan 2009 ◊ Emergency Port, Round 2 |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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03 Jan 2009 ◊ Emergency Port |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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26 Dec 2008 ◊ Some Fonseca |
Both fonts, /ScottsdaleNormal and /BernieBoldItalic, were horrible.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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18 Dec 2008 ◊ The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, /Palatino-Italic, /AppleBraille-Pinpoint6Dot.
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20 Nov 2008 ◊ Old and Blind, at Portal |
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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07 Nov 2008 ◊ Old & Odd in New York |
The font, /MarkerFelt-Wide, was a gratuitous error.
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18 Oct 2008 ◊ A wonderful tasting of old Madeira, at Triomphe, 49 West 44th St, New York |
Fonts = /Optima-Regular and /Cochin-Bold. I failed to Kern between the ‘T’ and ‘e’ of ‘Terrantez’.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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17 Oct 2008 ◊ Ferreira in New York |
Six glasses on A4, /GaiaElegant (later renamed /PostsAndLintel). Font = /Palatino-Bold.
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09 Oct 2008 ◊ |
Fonts = /Palatino-Bold and /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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08 Oct 2008 ◊ The Cockburn Vertical, 1908 to 2007 |
Fonts were /GillSans with /Palatino-BoldItalic. Fonts good, though I’m not a fan of the ‘1’ of /GillSans. Also would have looked better with CircletextsTweakSize, which was coded almost 5½ years later.
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13 Sep 2008 ◊ ’83 and ’85 Double Horizontal in Brooklyn |
Bad design — too much clutter. Fonts = /BeagleCondensedBold and /Cochin-Bold
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18 July 2008 ◊ AJRH visits JDAW for a 1997 mini-horizontal |
An early version, imperfectly successful, of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
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11 July 2008 ◊ Old, Odd & Great, in Portal Restaurant |
A garish production of DRT. And 10.3 megabytes. |
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02 July 2008 ◊ Utrecht, Blind 1977s www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080702_1977_blind.pdf |
Something went wrong with the clipping. |
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25 June 2008 ◊ After Cricket at The Crusting Pipe: ports costing ≤£15 |
Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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20 June 2008 ◊ First Anniversary: La Sirène, 558½ Broome Street, NY 10013-1508 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_jdaw.pdf First Anniversary: The Roots’ Martinez 1994 and Cockburn’s Ruby www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_roots.pdf First Anniversary: BMHR’s Taylor 2001 LBV www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_bmhr.pdf First Anniversary: AHB’s Martinez 1985 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_ahb.pdf First Anniversary: DRT’s Vesuvio 1994 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_drt.pdf (Picture added using Illustrator) |
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20 May 2008 ◊ Blind 1980 Horizontal in Wokingham www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080520_wokingham_blind.pdf |
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08 May 2008 ◊ |
The text-distortion routine TransformPath was removed from the code in May 2011. |
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10 Apr 2008 ◊ Blind at The Crusting Pipe (G83, TV95, BBR83=W83, Mz55, W91) |
File naming changed from using hyphens (“-”) to using underscores (“_”). Braille numbers, printed on a non-Braille printer: this makes no sense.
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03 Apr 2008 ◊ Roy Hersh’s Madeira Roadshow |
The feature CirclifyTitles was a very bad idea, and was removed from the code in May 2011. PostScript programmers wanting this code for some other purpose should peruse transformpath.ps. |
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29 Mar 2008 ◊ 1977 Horizontal at Dovetail |
“Ca” should have been “MsC”. Font = /Helvetica-Bold. Design too cluttered; redundancy between Titles and Overtitles: this design no longer liked.
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14 Feb 2008 ◊ Valentine’s Day 1970s in Brooklyn |
What was I thinking? Just gratuitously gaudy. Also reprehensible is the redundancy between the Titles and the Overtitles (as they have since been renamed). Please, readers, do not do this. Additionally, Messias Cachão is ‘MsC’—more awfulness.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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09 Feb 2008 ◊ Croft Vertical in Boston, 1896 to 1970 |
The abbreviation for Croft was later standardised to “Cr”.
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02 Feb 2008 ◊ 1963s in Sussex, and a decanting experiment |
A very worthwhile decanting experiment. My conclusion “But the results were close enough for there to be general agreement that the decanting method makes, at most, very little difference.” AHB’s conclusion: “… the differences were not pronounced enough to worry me at all in the future. I can now relax and be less obsessive about the way that I decant and hope others decant — now it just means that I can choose the easiest thing to do.” The abbreviation for Cockburn was later standardised to “Ck”, and for Croft to “Cr”.
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28 Jan 2008 ◊ The ‘Deeper Underground’ 1966 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080128-1966.pdf |
The design was functional, but flawed. I now dislike the redundancy between the parameters since renamed to Titles and Overtitles. And I also dislike the aesthetics, though acceptable by the standards of 2008.
The ‘holding bay’ kludge from March 2010 handled in the code as pre-pour sheets. |
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19 Jan 2008 ◊ The ‘Up North’ 1985 Horizontal (D, Mz, F, N, MG, Cr) |
The abbreviation for Croft was later standardised to “Cr”; and for Martinez to “Mz”. Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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03 Jan 2008 ◊ Colheitathon in Manhattan |
It was too ornate, too baroque. And the standard abbreviation for Feist was later standardised to ‘Fs’, and that for Dalva to ‘Dl’.
(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.) |
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Jan 2008 ◊ DRT’s 1970 “One-Man-Marathon-Horizontal-Off-line” |
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26–27 Dec 2007 ◊ The ‘Emergency’ 1985 Horizontal (D, I, RP, G, W, T, A) |
The /Harrington font still looks good. But I’m not proud of the redundancy between the parameters since renamed to Titles and Overtitles. Quinta do Infantado’s standard abbreviation is now “In”.
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11 Dec 2007 ◊ Vesuvios and 1994s in Bistro Citron |
The abbreviation for Croft was later standardised to “Cr”.
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08 Dec 2007 ◊ Graham Vertical in Munich TNs: 1927, ’45, ’48, ’55, ’63, ’70, ’75, ’77, ’83, ’85, ’91, ’94, ’97, 2000, ’03. |
Event arranged by Axel Probst. Eight glasses is too many on /A4; seven too many in this layout.
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06 Dec 2007 ◊ Taylor versus Fonseca: www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071206-semi-blind.pdf |
It might be that the commercial organiser of the tasting had different arrangements, so these were unused—I don’t recall. The sighted placemats definitely weren’t used. But this was the tasting at which the author sought New-York Port-drinking company, and found it. |
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12 Nov 2007 ◊ |
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31 Oct 2007 ◊ Alex B. in Los Angeles (W63, TV67, S77, G75, SW80, etc) www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071031-alexbandyv.pdf |
First appearance of water boxes (having been requested during the tasting at Bistro Citron on 29th October 2007).
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30 Oct 2007 ◊ |
Silly. |
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29 Oct 2007 ◊ Alex B. at Bistro Citron (K85, W85, W77, S77, RV77, G85) |
First appearance of HeaderLeftText etc (later renamed to HeadersLeft etc). The use of FillTitles was ghastly.
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12 Oct 2007 ◊ |
Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT. Example element of Titles is [(N20) /aring].
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01 Sep 2007 ◊ Fonseca Vertical, 1920 to 2000, in St. Helens www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070901-conky.pdf |
The font /WieynkFrakturZier-Bold for the ‘F’s was an error. The psychedelic feature, used in the colour version, was removed from the code in September 2009. It should never have been there. |
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18 July 2007 ◊ “The Port Forum Offline #1” |
/TitlesFont /Optima-Bold def |
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09 June 2007 ◊ Derek T. in St. Helens (D77, QH77, SW77, W80, W95LBV) |
Error: “C” should have been “Cá”. |
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30 May 2007 ◊ |
First use of OutlineTitles. Perhaps this tasting was postponed until 9 June 2007? |
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04 Apr 2007 ◊ www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070404-Axel1970-plain.pdf |
The standard abbreviation for Niepoort, even in 2007, was “Ni”; for Croft was “Cr”.
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31 Mar 2007 ◊ “Al-C” (ACC), “Al-K” (ARK), and “Al-D” (DRT) drank F70, F85, F00, G63, GM87, D83, NN87, and Mz85 |
Perhaps the first time the software had been used to make placemats for a tasting not attended by JDAW.
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17 Mar 2007 ◊ 1985s in Sussex (NN, Ch, RP, Cá, RO, SW, N, W, D, S, A, Ms, +2) |
At least one bottle from THRA via a thread on FTLoP. Bad design — revoltingly cluttered. Fonts were /BodoniSvtyTwoITCTTBookIta, /Helvetica-Bold, /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold.
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16 Mar 2007 ◊ Cockburn 1908, ’27, ’55, ’60, ’63, ’70, ’85; Taylor ’08, ’27, ’50, ’85 |
An early version of the TN page code, the name appearing at the top. And the /Cochin-Bold font still looks good.
The cork of the Cockburn “believed 1950’s” said Cockburn 1960. So not perfect, but not bad. In 2007 the abbreviation for Cockburn was “C”. In late 2011 there was discussion, others preferring “Ck”. I tried “exerting a little parental authority here: no. Cockburn had a century of being the most prestigious and highly-priced port, and for that reason is awarded the single letter. The records are very clear about the former (and perhaps future) relative prestige of this name.” But no, the consensus was against me: the standard abbreviation became “Ck”. |
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11 Jul 2006 ◊ Nacional 1962, 1980, 1985 |
The code that made this was 907 lines. For comparison, the version of 6th November 2019 is ≈15.6× longer at 14,105 lines, partly because it has twelve page types: /Glasses, /TastingNotes, /PlaceName, /PrePour, /VoteRecorder, /DecantingNotes, /Accounts, /CorkDisplay, /NeckTags, /DecanterLabels, /StickyLabels, /DistillerLog. Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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05 Nov 2005 ◊ In Sussex: Taylor and Warre |
This PDF made by re-distilling the original PostScript, as the original PDF had not been retained. It is possible that the used placemats had slightly different people. Far too many glasses on /A4. Some Ports magnificent. Alas not the Taylor 1851, the genuineness of which is no longer without doubt (per page 554 of Port Vintages).
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09 Apr 2005 ◊ A boys’ evening before a wedding (D63, F63, N45, N60, N63, N66, NN66, N70, N75, N85) |
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21 Oct 2004 ◊ In Manhattan: three bottles |
Croft = “C”!? Yet still, these matters had not been settled.
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03 Apr 2004 ◊ In Fulham: N31, N45, N55 (single and magnum), N63, NN70, N70, S70, N85, N00 |
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20 Mar 2004 ◊ In Wimbledon: three bottles |
The page was guillotined down the middle. Croft = “C”!? These matters had not yet been settled.
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31 Jan 2004 ◊ In Fulham Placemats file not found |
N60, F60, Cr60, Cr63, N63, F66, Cr66, Cr85, N85, N97 LBV, M&S97 LBV. |
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22 Nov 2003 ◊ In Fulham Placemats file not found |
W55, W63, W66, BBR66, W70, W77 single and magnum, G77, WC88, W00. |
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30 Nov 2002 ◊ In Fulham: Sandemans, and 1970s |
A draft of these placemats was made using Adobe Illustrator, about three weeks before the event. (The Illustrator file was converted to PDF in 2015.) Placemats for earlier events were also made in Illustrator. But the used placemats were made in PostScript. So this seems to have been the event at which placemats switched from being artisanal to being industrial. Font = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.
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12 Oct 2002 ◊ Chez RKA: excellent bottles
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Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator, with the two pages in separate files.
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13 Apr 2002 ◊ In Fulham: {Dow, Graham, Taylor} × {1980, 1983, 1985} |
Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator. (The Illustrator file was converted to PDF in 2015.) The names of the people are in the wrong place. Perhaps the names were guillotined.
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12 May 2001 ◊ In Sussex: Taylor, Noval, Graham.
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Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator, with the two pages in separate files. (The Illustrator files were converted to PDF in 2015.) And abbreviating Quinta do Noval to a ‘Q’ is slightly embarrassing. This design can be nearly replicated in the early-2015 software using the following parameters. /Circlearrays [ [ (Taylor 1960) (T60) ] [ (Taylor 1970) (T70) ] [ (Taylor 1977 Magnum) ] [ (Taylor 1977 Single) ] [ (Taylor 1985) (T85) ] ] def /Titles [ (T60) (T70) (T77) (T77) (T85) ] def /Belowtitles [ () () () () () ] def /Overtitles [ () () (Magnum) (Single) () ] def /ThePortForumIconPlacement /None def /HeadersLeft [] def /HeadersCenter [] def /HeadersRight [] def /PermittedPackingStyles [ /Diamonds ] def /WaterBoxes /None def /CircletextFont /Baskerville def /TitlesFont /Baskerville-Bold def /ColourSchemeTitles /Black def /AbovetitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 33 90 div def /ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow 0.1917 def /InlineTitles false def /InlineOvertitles true def /CircletextsTweakSize false def /CircletextMaxFontSizeMayBeSlightlyExceeded false def /CircletextMaxFontSizeProportionRadius 0.5 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 33 def /CircletextsMaxCopies 2 def /NamesFontSizeMin 9 def /NamesFontSizeMax 9 def |
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¿23 Aug 1997? ◊ |
The found Postscript file was last modified 17 August 1997. Not remembered whether this tasting happened, nor, if it did, it was as guessed to be held on the following Saturday. I just don’t know. And possible guests have been asked, who also have no memory of such a tasting. So perhaps this file was only a doodle. Postscript file converted to PDF in May 2019, after minor modifications such as updating font names and setting the page size. Self-evidently this PostScript is not general-purpose placemat software; instead it’s a collection of custom graphics.
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24 Apr 1993 ◊ In Sussex: ’63s and ’70s Placemats file not found |
T63, G63, 2×T70, 2×G70, 2×N70, 2×GC70. |
For tastings in 1988, 1989, 1990, the vintages being ≥1955 and mostly ≤1977, various placemats were made using (memory slightly fails) either Illustrator or FreeHand. These were lost in a hard-disk crash during 1990: the lesson about backups was thoroughly learnt. After which, and until 2001, tastings were infrequent.
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A Grace for a Port Tasting |
Te inuocamus, Liber Pater, ut nobis adsis qui id quod nunc bibemus dum profertur omnem ad gradum curauisti. te enim praesente uuae clarissimae leuissimis manibus carptae, te praesente pressae in uinum feruerunt. tu quoque adsis, o Siluane, qui durissimum corticem dedisti cuius puro in amplexu, tot per annos nullo calore, nullo frigore conturbatum dormiret. adeste igitur, di immortales, et concedite ut his uinis hodie ita ut uolebant auctores fruamur. Nunc est bibendum. Thee we invoke, Liber Pater: be present now, as you were at every step when what we are about to drink was made. For under your care the finest grapes were picked by gentle hands; under your care they were trodden and turned to wine. Be present too, Silvanus, for you gave of the long-lasting cork, in whose clean embrace the wine has slept for many years, disturbed by no excess of heat or cold. Come, Immortal Gods, and grant that we may enjoy these wines as their makers intended. Now is the time to drink! |
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