List of placemats

◊ 23 Apr 2051 2011 Horizontal, planned very far in advance Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2051/20510423_2011s.pdf

PostScript source, in case I should become, ahem, permanently unavailable.

◊ 26 May 2024 E2 ≥ L14 Planning

The death of the Queen postponed this tasting until, at the earliest, Monday 27th December 2094.

Louis IV of France reigned for 72 years and 110 days. Elizabeth II acceded to the throne on 6^th February 1952; which, plus 72 years, plus 110 days, is Sunday 26^th May 2024.

◊ 28 Mar 2023 Warre Cavadinha Planning

◊ 11 Dec 2021 Sammamish Port Club Holiday Party www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211211_GlennElliott_tawnies.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 09 Dec 2021 Quevedo Garrafeiras and Colheitas www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211209_Quevedo_garrafeira.pdf Planning

Quevedo Garrafeiras and Colheitas, 1992s and 1994s, as arranged by Vintage Wine and Port.

◊ 16 Nov 2021 1994s www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211116_1994s.pdf Review Planning

The FlightSeparations are softened with the new switch /Arc rather than the previously available /Curve. And /Arc is neater (compare 30 Apr 2016, 26 Feb 2016, and 16 June 2014). Indeed /Arc is so much more consistent across pieces of different lengths that /Curve and some other uglinesses have been removed (issue #87 = Simplifying FlightSeparations: removal of some possibilities).

/TitlesFont          /GothamNarrow-Bold def
/OvertitlesFont      /Garamond-Bold def
/OvertitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles  0.2 def

/FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1.3 def

/FlightSeparations true def
/FlightSeparationLines
[
	[  % + SheeNum = 0
	[  [/Bottom  5 -0.752159] /Arc [ 2  5] /Arc [ 1  5] /Arc [ 1  4] /Arc [ 0  4] /Arc [0 3] /Arc [/Top 0  0.752159]  ]
	[  [/Bottom  5  0.752159] /Arc [ 5  8] /Arc [ 5  7] /Arc [ 4  7] /Arc [ 4  6] /Arc [3 6] /Arc [/Top 6 -0.752159]  ]
	[  [/Bottom 11  0.752159] /Arc [11 14] /Arc [11 13] /Arc [10 13] /Arc [/Right 12 13]  ]
	]  % - SheeNum = 0
] def  % /FlightSeparationLines

/TestingMaxNumPagesToShow 2147483647 def  % Set to 1 when testing FlightSeparations and PaintForegroundCode

/PaintForegroundCode
{
	/Glasses TypeOfPagesBeingRendered eq
	{
	<< /FontSizeThis  MaxCircletextMaxFontSizes 1.5 mul >> begin
	/Garamond-Bold FontSizeThis selectfont
	(Symington Family Estates)  [(The Fladgate Partnership)]  (Sogevinus)
	GlassPositions SheetNum get  0 get aload pop moveto  0 Radii SheetNum get     FontSizeThis 0.9 mul add rmoveto  dup StringWidthRecursive -2 div 0 rmoveto ShowRecursive
	GlassPositions SheetNum get  5 get aload pop moveto  0 Radii SheetNum get neg FontSizeThis 1.5 mul sub rmoveto  dup StringWidthRecursive -2 div 0 rmoveto ShowRecursive
	GlassPositions SheetNum get 11 get aload pop moveto  0 Radii SheetNum get neg FontSizeThis 1.5 mul sub rmoveto  dup StringWidthRecursive -2 div 0 rmoveto ShowRecursive
	end  % /FontSizeThis
	} if  % /Glasses
} def  % /PaintForegroundCode

Whence came the “0.752159” in FlightSeparationLines? Started with an estimate. The log file then shows the radii offset of the corners and turning points in lines (in the final version as “FlightSeparations, SheetNum=0, /Top or /Bottom: possible elegant offsets from a centre: -1.14861; -0.752159; 0.752159; 1.14861”). Use of one of these made the entry and exit points line up with the bounds of a curve — a small elegance of no more than slight value.

After the tasting a change was made to add an annotation visible when viewed on-screeen, but not affecting the printed page.

/GlassesAnnotations 
	14  [(Replaced with Rs94 = Quinta de la Rosa 1994, at short notice provided by TC, as the Churchill was unavailable. ) /emdash ( 16 Nov 2021.)]
] def  % /GlassesAnnotations

◊ 11 Nov 2021 Quevedo Blend Your Own Vintage Port www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211111_Quevedo_BlendVP.pdf Planning

Quevedo Blend Your Own Vintage Port, as arranged by Vintage Wine and Port.

◊ 20 Oct 2021 1980s www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211020_1980s.pdf Review Planning

A revisit of the design for the 1980 tasting on 02 Mar 2012. Mentioned, re layout of glasses, in issue #151, /Bespoke14 for /A3 and implicitly in issue 158, /DiamondsAndAlternate, for 14 on /A3. Fonts = /TrebuchetMS-Bold and /TrebuchetMS.

Alas, my attendance foiled by covid.

◊ 06 Oct 2021 Warre www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20211006_Warre.pdf Planning

A revisit of the design for the Warre tasting on 02 Oct 2009. This is the first set of placemats to use three different page sizes: for glasses /PaperType /A3 def; for the names of the people /PlaceNamesPaperType /A5 def; everything else on /A4 (from TastingNotesPaperType). Fonts = /AnnualNormal and /Geo112ThinBold.

Alas, my attendance foiled by covid.

◊ Late Sep 2021 Portgual www.jdawiseman.com/2021/202109XX_Portugal.pdf …/20210928_Bomfim.pdf

Alas, my attendance foiled by covid.

◊ 08 Sep 2021 VE Day (Postponed) www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210908_VE.pdf Review Planning

Two consequent issues: #154 = Boustrophedon flag in PackingStyles; and #155 = Printer test, following failure of default value of TastingNotesColumnStrokeCode.

Rare use of the empty-page feature. Fonts = /Optima-Regular and /Cochin.

◊ 04 Sep 2021 Port chez CMAG www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210904_CMAG.pdf …/20210904_CMAG_PorkPies.pdf Param’s

/TitlesFont     /CentimeThinNormal def
/CircletextFont /CentimeWideNormal def
/NamesFont      TitlesFont         def

Use of /AccanthisADFStd-Regular was considered, as in a 2014 event chez CMAG, but its non-lining lowercase old-style figures don’t work for elements of Titles of the form ‘G85’.

There was a separate tasting document for the pork pies. Parameters by which done, and discussion, are in issue 153.

◊ 16 Aug 2021 Kopke Port Masterclass www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210816_GlennElliott_Kopke.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott. A rare use of the /Arch possibility within PackingStyles.

◊ 24 July 2021 Sammamish Port Club www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210724_GlennElliott_wood.pdf …/20210724_GlennElliott_bottle.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 09 July 2021 Delinquent in Utzigen www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210709.pdf Planning

/Titles [
	(EV82)   (T55)   (Rs94)   /dagger   (Br60)
	[(Dl) {0 CurrentFontSize 0.1 mul rmoveto CurrentFontName CurrentFontSize 0.75 mul selectfont} (40Y)]
] def  %  /Titles

/TitleMaxHeightProportionInnerRadius 1.25 def
/FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1.5 def

/InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinPage 2 le {2} {1} ifelse} def
/BelowtitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.2 def

/Spirals true def
/SpiralCentreFromCentreProportionRadiiInside 0.75 def
/SpiralCentreFromCentreAngle {[-7.5 -22.5 -37.5 7.5 22.5 37.5] WithinPage get} def
/SpiralClockwise {WithinPage 2 le} def

◊ 08 July 2021 Quinta de la Rosa www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210708_Rosa.pdf Planning

Alas postponed. Design inspired by the TSQ50 circle at the Taylor vertical of 22 Mar 2013. Nearly all bottles provided by Vintage Wine & Port Limited “in exchange for a donation to charity”.

/PaperType /A2 def  % 594mm by 420mm

/CircletextFont  /GoudyOldStyleT-Regular      def
/TitlesFont      /FiraSansExtraCondensed-Bold def
/AbovetitlesFont /BowNormal                   def
/OvertitlesFont  /BowBold                     def
/SubtitlesFont   AbovetitlesFont              def

/CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 9 def
/CircletextFontSize 9 def  % Renamed Apr 2022

/ShapesInTitles      true def
/ShapesInAbovetitles false def
/ShapesInBelowtitles false def
/ShapesInOvertitles  false def
/ShapesToUse [ /Flower ] def
/ShapesFlowersNumPetalsMin {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 1 get (LBV) eq {5} {6} ifelse} def
/ShapesFlowersNumPetalsMax /ShapesFlowersNumPetalsMin load def
/ShapesAverageSeparation 24 def  % Fewer than usual, to be less cluttered
/ShapesEnclosingCircleRadiusMin  ShapesAverageSeparation 0.3 mul  def
/ShapesEnclosingCircleRadiusMax  ShapesAverageSeparation 0.5 mul  def

/OuterGlassesMarginT  % Cf. Vesuvio vertical of 24 February 2016
	420 360 mul 127 div  30 24 add sub   % Intra-margin page height
	3 sqrt 3 mul  2 add                  % Height of glasses, in radii
	594 360 mul 127 div  48 sub  13 div  % Radius
	mul  sub
def  % /OuterGlassesMarginT
/LogThisExtra [
	(Used height ~= ) 420 OuterGlassesMarginT 127 mul 360 div sub (mm )
	(~= A4 height + ) 2 index 297 sub (mm. )
	(Inspired by TSQ50 from Taylor vertical of 22 March 2013.)
] def  % /LogThisExtra

From log: Used height ~= 338.485mm ~= A4 height + 41.4854mm. Inspired by TSQ50 from Taylor vertical of 22 March 2013.
… Radii = [ 125.829 ] => diameters ~= 88.8mm~=3.50"

◊ 17 June 2021 Quevedo Colheita Vertical www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210617_Quevedo_colheita.pdf Planning

Quevedo Colheita Vertical, as arranged by Vintage Wine and Port. Official Quevedo font family is Woodford-Bourne; fonts used are /WoodfordBourne-Bold, /WoodfordBourne-Thin, and /WoodfordBourne-Regular.

◊ 26 May 2021 Hadge’s Blind Generosity www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210526_Hadge.pdf Planning

/Names [ () ] def
/NamesVoteRecorder [
	(HTWH)  (H +1)  (MPM)  (SCD)  (PW)  (CPR)
	[(JDA) {-0.06 Kern} (W)]
] def

/CrossHatchingInside true def
/OvertitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 0.125 def

◊ 13 May 2021 Blend your own 20-year tawny with Oscar Quevedo www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210513_Quevedo_tawny.pdf Review Planning

Quevedo tawnies, as arranged by Vintage Wine and Port. Official Quevedo font family is Woodford-Bourne; fonts used are /WoodfordBourne-Bold, /WoodfordBourne-Thin, and /WoodfordBourne-Regular.

◊ 15 Apr 2021 Graham Single Harvest Tawnies www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210415_Graham_tawny.pdf Planning

Graham’s Single Harvest Tawnies, as arranged by Vintage Wine and Port. YouTube Symington presentation; and tasting notes of the 1994, 1990, 1982, 1974, and 1963.

Policy decision: henceforth VW&P’s official placemat style has FillTitles, with the FillTexts being the name of the shipper. Where possible, fonts will be or echo those of the shipper.

◊ 21 Mar 2021 Sammamish Port Club www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210321_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 14 Jan 2021 LBVs www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210114_LBVs.pdf Planning

The first occasion that SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes has been true with more than one /Glasses page.

Gotham fonts liked, despite the ‘I’ lacking crossbars. Comment welcomed.

% Prevents there being two copies of the decanters labels for G15 and T15 LBVs.
/DecanterLabelsNumCopies {SheetNum 0 eq {1} {WithinPage 2 eq {1} {0} ifelse} ifelse} def

/GlassesOnSheets [
	[ 0 1 3 ]  % T15 G15 /dagger
	[ 0 1 2 ]  % T15 G15 QH14
] def  % /GlassesOnSheets
/GlassesOnTastingNotePages GlassesOnSheets def

/SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def

/TitlesFont      /GothamNarrow-Bold def
/CircletextFont  /Gotham-Light      def
/BelowtitlesFont /Gotham-Black      def

◊ 19 Dec 2019 Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191219_White_Horse.pdf

Sticky labels, not glasses sheets: /GlassesNumCopies 0 def .

◊ 18 Dec 2019 1934s and 1935s at Otto’s www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191218_thirties.pdf

/GlassesNumCopies 0 def

◊ 17 Dec 2019 A port that cost you less than £25 Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191217_GBP25.pdf

Fonts: /GillSans-Light, /GillSans-CondensedBold, /Harrington, /GillSans-Italic.

◊ 09 Dec 2019 1991s Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191209_1991s.pdf

/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

The constructions of Names is explained in the documentaton on GitHub.

◊ 21 Nov 2019 Rebello Valente Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191121_Rebello_Valente.pdf

Re the use of Droplets, see the discussion on ThePortForum.com.

Code to make the two-line effect is on GitHub, or see all used parameters. 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’).

◊ 11 Nov 2019 The March Porters www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191111_MarchPorters.pdf

/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

Other than some decanter labels, the first use of FillTitles since January 2014. 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

◊ 02 Nov 2019 Stewart Todd www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191102_GlennElliott_Stewart_1.pdf …/20191102_GlennElliott_Stewart_2.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 29 Oct 2019 Phil Wakely’s 50^th Birthday Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191029_PhilWakely.pdf

◊ 23 Oct 2019 Messias Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191023_Messias.pdf

(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  % /SpiralCentreFromCentreAngle

◊ 07 Oct 2019 Bring a bottle, blind Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20191007_blind.pdf

◊ 23 Sep 2019 FTLOP’s Porto Prova: DR vs S. Leonardo TWAIOA www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190923_GlennElliott_PHT.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 20→29 Sep 2019 In Portugal www.jdawiseman.com/2019/201909XX_Portugal.pdf

/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

◊ 10 Sep 2019 1966s Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190910_1966s.pdf

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.

◊ 27 July 2019 FTLOP 14^th Anniversary Party www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190727_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 25 June 2019 2017s Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190625_2017s.pdf

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?

◊ 11 June 2019 1994s Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190611_1994s.pdf

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

/CrossHatchingOutside true def
/CrossHatchingTitles true def
/CrossHatchingCellArea 1296 def
/CrossHatchingCentreX /Right def
/CrossHatchingCentreY {
	PageHeight MgnT sub 3 mul MgnB add 4 div
	Radii SheetNum get 2 div  sub
} def

◊ 23 May 2019 Victoria’s 200th Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190523_Victoria200.pdf

/TitlesFont     /Cochin  def
/CircletextFont /Optima-Regular def
/InlineTitles false def

◊ 21 May 2019 Blind and Informal Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190521_blind.pdf

/ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def
/ColourSchemeBelowtitles ColourSchemeTitles def

/InlineTitles false def

/ShapesInTitles true def
/ShapesInBelowtitles ShapesInTitles def
/ShapesToUse [/Flower] def

◊ 01 May 2019 Broadbent Port Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190501_Broadbent.pdf

◊ 16 Apr 2019 The Big Fortified Tasting, masterclasses www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190416_BFT_Kopke.pdf …/20190416_BFT_Sandeman.pdf …/20190416_BFT_Madeira.pdf …/20190416_BFT_Sherry.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 in issue 18.

◊ 26 Mar 2019 DRT’s Annual Elixir Tasting www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190326_DRT_elixir.pdf Review Planning

/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.

◊ 05 Mar 2019 Fonseca 1970 Magnum, and Some Youngsters www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190305_F70_Youngsters.pdf

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
/CircletextFontSize 11 def  % Renamed Apr 2022

/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

◊ 13 Feb 2019 A Box of Vesuvio Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190213_Vesuvio_box.pdf

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

/Spirals true def
/SpiralCentreFromCentreProportionRadiiInside 0.75 def

◊ 03 Jan 2019 Blind Emergency Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190103_blind.pdf

First appearance of Spirals. Drawing these with few Bézier curves uses the function ApproximatingCurve, as ‘discussed’ on comp.lang.postscript.

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

◊ 21 Dec 2017 Xmas Tasting (Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends) Review No placemats

◊ 20 Dec 2017 Luncheon, Otto’s, 1927s Review No placemats

1927 Cockburn, Constantino, Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Martinez, Taylor, and Warre.

◊ 19 Dec 2017 1977s Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171219_1977s.pdf

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.

30 Nov 2017 ◊

Sandemans and 1970s (for the Placemat Software’s 15^th anniversary) Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171130_Sandemans_1970s.pdf

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.

◊ 29 Nov 2017 Cálem Review Planning Food www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171129_Calem.pdf

Extracts from these placemats appeared on pp607–8 of Port Vintages (2018).

◊ 18 Nov 2017 Extraordinary Port Tasting www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171118_GlennElliott_HT.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 02 Nov 2017 1970 Sighted, no duplicates Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171102_1970s.pdf

◊ 19 Oct 2017 Mature V.P. or L.B.V., blind, ideally in decanters Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171019_mature.pdf

The first placemats to have in the ExternalLinks a link to What3Words.

◊ 10 Oct 2017 Gould Campbell, 1924 to 1997 Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171010_Gould_Campbell.pdf

◊ 28 Sep 2017 “Bring a container of port, or something a bit like port, to share with port-lovers” Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170928_Bring.pdf

◊ 07 Sep 2017 SQVP Blind Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170907_SQVP_Blind.pdf

Two of the fonts were not the most splendid victory:   /CircletextFont /Estelle def,   /NamesFont /DobkinScript def .

◊ 09 Aug 2017 Summer Thirst, Blind Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170809_Blind.pdf

The parameter VoteRecorderCrossedBox is not intuitive to use. Perhaps the parameter could be somehow reorganised, as not much discussed in issue 80.

/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.)

◊ 01 Aug 2017 Bring a Bottle of Port, or of Something Else, Blind or Not Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170801_Emergency.pdf

/ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def
/ShapesInTitles true def
/ShapesToUse [/Star] def
/ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def
/InlineTitles false def

◊ 21–22 May 2017 FTLOP 12^th Anniversary Extravaganza www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170721_GlennElliott.pdf …/20170722_GlennElliott_1.pdf …/20170722_GlennElliott_2.pdf …/20170723_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 13 July 2017 La nuit avant le jour de Bastille Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170713_Blind.pdf

◊ 21 June 2017 Portugal, including The Factory House Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170621_FactoryHouse.pdf …/20170600_Portugal.pdf

◊ 08 June 2017 1967s Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170608_1967s.pdf

/ShapesInTitles true def
/ShapesToUse [/Flower /Star /Heart] def
/ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def
/ShapesTitlesStroke
	{0 setgray 0.18 setlinewidth stroke}
def

◊ 24 May 2017 Anything But Vintage IV, Blind, and Optionally for Somebody Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170524_Blind_for_Somebody.pdf

◊ 10 May 2017 Bring a bottle blind Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170510_help_required.pdf

◊ 05 May 2017 Nineties www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170505_GlennElliott_SPC.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 26 Apr 2017 Charity tasting at DFW in the Cheesegrater, arranged by AHB www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170426_DFW.pdf

It is rare to have seven glasses on a single /A4.

◊ 22 Apr 2017 Dueling Bastardo vs. Moscatel www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170422_GlennElliott_Bastardo_NY.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 19 Apr 2017 Bring a bottle of port to share Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170419_emergency.pdf

First use of /Harrington font since 20^th September 2016; first use of /MidGrey since the Dow magnums on 17^th January 2013 (4¼ years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with a serif font since 22^nd March 2012 (5 years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with /Harrington since 20^th November 2008 (8½ years before), the previous occasion having been 26^th December 2007 (shortly before that, 9⅓ years before this).

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

/CircletextFont /Harrington    def
/TitlesFont     CircletextFont def
/ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def
/ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow 0.005 def
/CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 18 def
/CircletextFontSize 18 def  % Renamed Apr 2022

/InlineTitles false def
/CrossHatchingInside true def
/CrossHatchingTitles false def

◊ 06 Apr 2017 1955s Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170406_1955s.pdf

◊ 22 Mar 2017 Bring a Blind Bottle Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170322_blind.pdf

A rare use of the /Arch possibility within PackingStyles. (Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.)

◊ 09 Mar 2017 {Dow,Graham,Fonseca,Taylor,Warre} × {1980,1983,1985} Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170309_Eighties_Rectangle.pdf

Several images of this set of placemats were posted on JancisRobinson.com, and a review entitled Vintage ports of call was 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

◊ 01 Mar 2017 An Introductory Port Tasting www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170301_Introductory.pdf

◊ 04 Feb 2017 CUTwC’s 62nd Annual Dinner www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170204_CUTwC.pdf

◊ 04 Feb 2017 1977s in Leverkusen Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170204_1977s_Leverkusen.pdf

Stars made as for tasting on 01 Feb 2017. Documentation re code injection has code for dot below last character of “Bros”.

◊ 01 Feb 2017 1977 from Magnum and Tappit Hen Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170201_1977_magnum_tappit_hen.pdf

/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.

◊ 27 Jan 2017 Inaugural Meeting, Sammamish Port Club www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170127_GlennElliott_SPC_a.pdf …/20170127_GlennElliott_SPC_b.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 04 Jan 2017 Bring a Blind Bottle Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170104_Bring_a_Blind_Bottle.pdf

First use of PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles.

◊ 17 Dec 2015 The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151217_WhiteHorse.pdf

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.

◊ 15 Dec 2015 Seventy-Five at Forty Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151215_1975s.pdf

Font /Albertus-Medium, as used for street signs in Lambeth. And precision kerning, both vertical and horizontal, in BackgroundTextsTNsTexts.

/BackgroundTextsTNsTexts [
	[(7) {CurrentFontSize dup -0.22561 mul exch -0.36 mul rmoveto} (5)]
	Titles length 7 div ceiling cvi {dup} repeat pop
] def

◊ 28 Nov 2015 Fonseca, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de Review F48 F48 www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151128_Leverkusen_Fonseca.pdf

Manual setting of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences, necessitating /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def.

◊ 25 Nov 2015 Horizontal of 1985s Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151125_1985s.pdf

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).

/GlassesOnSheets [
	[  0  1   6 {} for ]
	[  7  1  12 {} for ]
	[ 13  1 Titles length 1 sub {} for ]
] def  % /GlassesOnSheets
/ShrinkRadii [0 1 1] def

It is 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. It would have been better with 14 on /A3 and 5 on /A4, as was done for the Messias tasting on 23 Oct 2019.

◊ 24 Nov 2015 With George Sandeman at Otto’s Review www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151124_GeorgeSandeman.pdf

Prior to November 2015, I had believed, erroneously, that A4 was 250mm·(2^±¼) ≈ 210.2241mm by 297.3018mm. Actually, ISO 216 uses integer numbers of millimetres: A4 is 210mm by 297mm. Corrected in the code as of 31 Oct 2015. Happily, the prior errors were comfortably within ISO 216’s allowed tolerance of ±2mm.

Naturally enough, the small reduction in the page size caused a reduction in the size of the circles. Compare 27Oct2015’s radius of 136.978pt with 04Jan2016’s radius of 136.819pt, a change in the diameter of half the change in the page width ≈ −0.11mm ≈ −0.12%.

Usually GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders is derived from GlassesOnTastingNotePages. But here it was more natural for the gray lines to separate types of wine, hence:

/GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders
[
	[  % + 1st & only page of VRs
		[ 0 1 ]
		[ 2 ]
		[ 3 4 5 6 7 ]
		[ 8 9 10 11 ]
	]  % - 1st & only page of VRs
] def  % /GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders

◊ 27 Oct 2015 A relatively long-notice ‘emergency’ Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151027_emergency.pdf

◊ 14 Oct 2015 Woo-Woo not in Bangalore Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151014_pseudo-placemats.png

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.

◊ 21 Sep 2015 An Emergency Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150921_emergency.pdf

◊ 09 Sep 2015 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150909_Elizabeth2_Victoria.pdf

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.

◊ 14 Aug 2015 The Elliotts in London: Bring a Bottle, Perhaps of Tawny Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150814_The_Elliotts.pdf

Parameters GlassesCirclesFadingFactor and GlassesCrossedOut added to the software for this tasting. Comment welcomed, ideally in the software thread.

◊ 27 July 2015 Bring a bottle to share Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150727.pdf

Fonts: /Cardinal-Alternate (not worth repeating), and for the Names, /AbadiMT-CondensedLight.

◊ 25–26 July 2015 FTLOP 10^th Anniversary Extravaganza www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150725_GlennElliott.pdf …/20150726_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 21 July 2015 “[S]ome kind of emergency”, “Blind” Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150721_emergency.pdf

Fonts = /Cochin and /Cochin-Bold. Also /Rays true 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.)

◊ 07 July 2015 iVin @ Quevedo www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150707_quevedo.pdf

Made, at short notice, for Oscar. Happy to have helped. (But I forgot to remove the TPF logos.) Font: /TitlesFont /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold def .

◊ 17 June 2015 The Sweet-Spot Vintages ({’66, ’70, ’77}×{D, G, T, W}), blind Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150617_sweet-spot_vintages.pdf

◊ 03 June 2015 “Doty in London — Get it while it’s hot” Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150603_doty.pdf

Fonts: /Helvetica-Bold and /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT.

◊ 17 May 2015 Blind and atonal at Left Bank New York Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150517_NewYork_blind.pdf

Though I dislike the numerals in /GillSans, the letters are very elegant, and nicely different to /Harrington.

◊ 09 May 2015 1945 Horizontal at The RAF Club (WoP) Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150509_1945.pdf

Review in The World of Fine Wine, issue 50, 2015. Fonts: /Garamond and /TrebuchetMS-Bold.

◊ 05 May 2015 Fonseca’s Bicentenary Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150505_fonseca.pdf

Unusually, Titles, TitlesTastingNotes and TitlesVoteRecorder all different; and SubtitlesTastingNotes different from all of Abovetitles, Belowtitles, and Overtitles. Also, /TitlesFont /GilliusADF-BoldCond def.

◊ 02 May 2015 Kari’s 50^th Birthday Rum Party www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150502_GlennElliott_rum.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 15 Apr 2015 Old Claret at Otto’s Review www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150415_claret.pdf

◊ 11 Apr 2015 The Majesty of Malvasia www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150411_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 10 Apr 2015 The Doty Cup, Elemental Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150410_doty_cup.pdf

It would have been better if the parameter since renamed to PackingNestingColumnMajor had been true. Fonts: /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.

/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

◊ 31 Mar 2015 Blint och informellt farväl till Magnus (och Dereks fem från ’65) Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150331_blind_informal.pdf

◊ 26 Mar 2015 Blind with a clue Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150326_blind_with_clue.pdf

Having just devised the parameters to reproduce the pre-software placemats used on 12 May 2001, similar was used here.

◊ 02 Mar 2015 Henry Shotton in London Review Param’s Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150302_shotton.pdf

Fonts: mostly /Harrington, the Names being in /LucidaSans.

◊ 15 Feb 2015 Lunch with Chris Doty Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150215_doty_lunch.pdf

Fonts: /Garamond-Bold and /Helvetica-Bold.

◊ 09 Feb 2015 Port from the 1970s Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150209_seventies.pdf

Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /PTSans-NarrowBold.

◊ 24 Jan 2015 1985 Horizontal www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150124_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 19 Jan 2015 Fonseca, incl. a bottle from an imperial Review Food Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150119_fonseca.pdf

Fonts = /Garamond-Bold and /GillSansMT-Condensed.

◊ 17 Jan 2015 The 60^th Anniversary of the C.U.Tw.C.: Fonseca 1985 in Imperial and Magnums (how it happened), and some Noval 1955 www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150117_CUTwC.pdf

Decanter labels without glasses sheets, by /GlassesNumCopies 0 def.

◊ 19 Dec 2013 Unknown Shipper, Peculiar Friends, Revisited Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131219_bell.pdf

The previous use of the font /SnowtopCaps was ghastly. This use was better.

◊ 07 Dec 2013 1955 Horizontal for Pilsen Homeless Health Services Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131207_1955_GlennElliott.pdf

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’.)

◊ 28 Nov 2013 ‘What?’, after the Berry Bros & Rudd Port Walk Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131128_post-bbr.pdf

Fonts = /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Helvetica-Bold.

◊ 27 Nov 2013 83@30 Review Planning danieljewesbury.org/…

Made by Daniel Jewesbury. The ZX Spectrum font was very ’80s.

◊ 31 Oct 2013 All Hallows’ Eve: Remember the Dead (Blinded and Decorated) Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131031_all_hallows_eve.pdf

Fonts: /Firecat-Medium, /LucidaBlackletter, and /AmericanTypewriter-Light.

◊ 11–12 Oct 2013 1963s, for AHB’s Quinquagenary (with Champagne for the better halves) Review Param’s www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131011_1963_ahb.pdf …/20131011_champagne_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. Would have been better with InlineTitles: lesson learnt. Documentation re code injection has code for dot below last character of “Bros”.

◊ 08 Oct 2013 Andy Velebil in London Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008.pdf (Unused: www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008_calem.pdf)

Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GilliusADFNo2-BoldCond (the latter being an error for several reasons, including its Q’s descender).

◊ 02 Oct 2013 Port Review Planning Param’s www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131003.pdf

Oops: wrong date on the placemats. Wednesday 2^nd, not 3^rd. Anyway, another airing for the /Harrington font.

◊ 25 Sep 2013 Bring A Bottle of Vintage Port (G70 magnum, GB70, T70, N66, W77, G??) Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130925.pdf

Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GillSansMT-Condensed.

◊ 10 Sep 2013 “Bring a bottle wrapped in foil” Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130910.pdf

Fonts = /BookmanOldStyle and /GillSansMT-Condensed.

◊ 10 Aug 2013 FTLoP 8^th Anniversary Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130810_ftlop_8th_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 18 July 2013 Doty’s Thirsty Third Thursdays’s Champagne www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130718_ttt_champagne.pdf

(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.)

◊ 10 July 2013 DRT’s Emergency, but cancelled and replaced with beer. Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130710_emergency.pdf

◊ 27 June 2013 Doty in London for Wimbledon and 1966s Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130627_1966_doty.pdf

The /Cochin-Bold font has gravitas. The interesting element of Titles was [(D) {-0.09 Kern} (,) {-0.26 Kern} (W)]. Also, it was from this tasting that I started posting PNGs of the placemats in the organisation threads.

◊ 04 June 2013 Griff Returns Down Under Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130604_crs.pdf

First use of RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray: /RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray {180 WithinTitles mul 1 Circlearrays length sub div} def. Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /Helvetica-Bold.

◊ 18–19 May 2013 Madeirathon Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130519_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf …/20130518_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 19 May 2013 Thirsty Third Thursdays: The Riesling Lottery www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130516_ThirstyThirdThursday.pdf

/GilliusADFNo2-Bold and /GoudyOldStyleT-Regular look good.

◊ 24 Apr 2013 2007 LBVs, after the BFT Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130424_lbv2007s.pdf

◊ 23 Apr 2013 The Dirty Dozen Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130423_dirty_dozen.pdf

Fonts = /Palatino-Roman and /Optima-Bold.

◊ 20 Apr 2013 1983 Vintage Port Retrospective Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130420_1983a_GlennElliott.pdf …/20130420_1983b_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 18 Apr 2013 Thirsty Third Thursdays: The Price is Right www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130418_third_thursday.pdf

◊ 17 Apr 2013 Oscar in London Planning Param’s www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130417_oscar.pdf

Fonts = /Modern-Regular and /AvenirNextCondensed-DemiBold. The latter is kinder to the eyes than the former.

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

◊ 02 Apr 2013 1983-1985 Double Horizontal Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130402_1983_1985.pdf

Fonts = /Cochin-Bold and /BlueHighwayFreeCondensed.

◊ 22 Mar 2013 Taylor vertical Review Param’s Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130322_taylor.pdf

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: /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.)

◊ 21 Mar 2013 Thirsty Third Thursdays: “California versus France: Blind Smackdown” www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130321_ThirstyThirdThursdays.pdf

A rare use of PaintBackgroundCode, and, even rarer, that containing a use of MakePathConnectingGlasses.

◊ 09 Mar 2013 Velhíssimo Verdelho Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130309_Verdelho_GlennElliott.pdf

Made by Glenn Elliott.

◊ 06 Mar 2013 Blind at short notice Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130306.pdf

Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /LucidaSans-Demi.

◊ 26 Feb 2013 Ronnie Roots visits London Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130226_roots.pdf

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

◊ 21 Feb 2013 Partly-blind 1970 horizontal: Chris Doty’s Thirsty Third Thursdays www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130221_doty_1970_blind.pdf

/TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def

◊ 20 Feb 2013 Alex’s Mystery Theme after the New Douro Tasting Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130220_streatham.pdf

The variation in brightness was not clever. I had underappreciated the merits of consistency.

(See note at top re inconsistent rasterisation of thin lines.)

◊ 15 Feb 2013 “Doty’s Triumphant Return” Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130215_doty.pdf

◊ 06 Feb 2013 Some Churchill and some halves of Dow Bomfim Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130206_churchill_dow.pdf

(Rays never worked perfectly, and in July 2019 was removed from the code, a related effect being done with Droplets.)

◊ 26 Jan 2013 CUTwC Dinner (T55, 2×SV99×3L) TNs www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130126_cutwc.pdf

Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def.

◊ 18–20 Jan 2013 Extras for a trip to Portugal Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/201301_greeks.pdf

Fonts: /AmerettoNormal and /AmerettoThinBold, with Greek letters in /Helvetica.

% Greek pages 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

◊ Lunch, 20 Jan 2013 Light lunch Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130120_lunch.pdf

◊ Dinner, 19 Jan 2013 A Working Dinner with Christiano Van Zeller Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130119_van_zeller.pdf

◊ Lunch, 19 Jan 2013 A Working Lunch with George Sandeman Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130119_sandeman.pdf

◊ 18 Jan 2013 With Five Symingtons Review www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130118_five_plus_five.pdf

◊ 17 Jan 2013 Dow magnums Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130117_dow_magnums.pdf

Fonts = /BookAntiqua-Italic, /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold and /BookmanOldStyle.

◊ 03 Jan 2013 Blind Review Planning www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130103.pdf

An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. Fonts: /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT and /LucidaSans-Demi. Attended by AHB, WPS, and RAYC, all three of whom brought, blind, Cockburn 1955.