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The Manual wrote:There are separate pages describing: the choosing of the page size

Glasses placemat: choosing a page size wrote:

• North American paper sizes:
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  • 12→16: either split over multiple sheets of /USL, or /USL2 = US Ledger = 11″×17″

Glenn E. wrote:I have done 11 glasses on standard US Letter (8.5" x 11") and that was fine.

jdaw1 wrote:Eleven?! That's way too tight for glasses that aren't thimbles. You sure that wasn’t US Legal? For the Crusting Pipe glasses I now have a maximum of six on A4.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=48465#p48465]Here[/url], in mid-Feb 2012, jdaw1 wrote:We tried the opacity test, from two different laser printers. The printers were too different, but both useless. Good experiment; bad result. Scrapped.

Opacity conversation continued in thread entitled Quantifying opacity in TNs.

In [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#voterecorder]the manual[/url] jdaw1 wrote:For blind-tasting ‟What is it?” voting, typically the person who brought a bottle should not guess. Rectangles can be crossed out by setting VoteRecorderCrossedBox to code evaluating to a boolean, that code typically referring to WithinTitles and NameNum.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=49059#p49059]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:First draft of the placemats.

• Observe use of the VoteRecorderCrossedBox feature.

jdaw1 wrote:I thought it better to post it near the placemats.

jdaw1 wrote:This thread is for discussion about the software. Perhaps this collection of code should go in a new thread in the Reference section?

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:This thread is for discussion about the software. Perhaps this collection of code should go in a new thread in the Reference section?

Or you could output the interesting code to the last page of the placemats file and it could be accessed by downloading the placemats?

jdaw1 wrote:This thread is for discussion about the software. Perhaps this collection of code should go in a new thread in the Reference section?

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=45514#p45514]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:Also, perhaps a trivial detail but - is there a setting to define the width of any exclusion area on the glasses sheets between the outer ring of text as defined by circlearrays and the inner text defined by titles, belowtitles? In a couple of cases experimenting I found that the inner text can (virtually) meet the outer, and therefore by allowing optionally configurable decrease of the effective inner circle size (in which the title/belowtitle are sized and placed) by a small degree (say <=5%, configurable, or a fixed amount e.g. 1mm) might help clarity?

JacobH wrote:Should the font selected for the place-mat have, in effect, built in negative kerning, in that some of the glyphs go over the y-axis, then there may be a clash between some letters and the lines on the question and other pages.

jdaw1 wrote:Done in the code, even though not in the manual: ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow and ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusOvertitles.

jdaw1 wrote:In some places the software establishes widths with PathBBox, a more accurate version of the built-in pathbbox. In other places it uses something like stringwidth pop, as called by StringWidthRecursive. The former is slower but correctly copes with the observed problem, and can become more widespread.

JacobH wrote:Almibar Pro

JacobH wrote:Should the font selected for the place-mat have, in effect, built in negative kerning, in that some of the glyphs go over the y-axis, then there may be a clash between some letters and the lines on the question and other pages.

For example, the J in Jannon T Moderne Pro Italic overlaps the y-axis (in red) quite considerably:
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jdaw1 wrote:Except the distance of items of Names from the waterboxes.

jdaw1 wrote:• Data is mostly in two arrays, PeopleData and PortData, and is decanted from there into the parameter arrays. For large tastings this can be easier, as it keeps together the relevant items of Titles, Overtitles, FillTexts, etc.

jdaw1 wrote:At some tastings there can be insufficjent table space for the TN sheets. So, for very formal tastings, such as the Olympic tasting, there should be A6 tasting booklets, properly bound.

DRT wrote:Given our habit of late changes to line-ups, attendance, etc I think the logistics of having these bound will prove to be extremely challenging.

DRT wrote:with a second sticker listing the wines and attendees that could be placed inside the front cover as a title page?

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Given our habit of late changes to line-ups, attendance, etc I think the logistics of having these bound will prove to be extremely challenging.

If the binding is expensive per unit, agreed. But if it the the first item that costs most, each subsequent being relatively cheap, we could have some binders for un-named people, much as we currently do with TN sheets.

RAYC wrote:I would say tht TN sheets are better printed on standard A4 rather than heavy gsm cartridge paper - allows them to be folded and put in jacket for return home!

RAYC wrote:However, i did think the use of cartridge paper for placemats was very good, and i must admit i prefer the use of A3 to 2xA4.

jdaw1 wrote:

RAYC wrote:However, i did think the use of cartridge paper for placemats was very good, and i must admit i prefer the use of A3 to 2xA4.

Agreed, except that DRT’s comment applies also to this.

RAYC wrote:I can probably print A3 myself on similar quality paper. Happy to give a trial run for the next tasting. (when is the next tasting, btw....?)

jdaw1 wrote:• With one wine per A6 sheet, should each sheet have a copy of the glasses tasting circle. Small, or A6-fillingly big? It might be tricky to have that faded, but if possible, should it be faded? (Technical question in comp.lang.postscript.)

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uncle tom wrote:Easiest way would be for each page to be printed four up on an A4 sheet.

uncle tom wrote:I would suggest that the front cover be colour printed on 250 gsm card

Easiest for me would be to print to A6. Would that be difficult for the printers?

Saying what? One or two lines of tasting title; name of person; that’s it? For simplicity of collation the person name could be omitted from the internal pages.

My take is that this seems to be a lot of effort for no functional benefit over A4 tasting sheets

uncle tom wrote:

My take is that this seems to be a lot of effort for no functional benefit over A4 tasting sheets

The functional benefit is to overcome the lack of table space for A4 sheets.

jdaw1 wrote:(Works in Adobe Distiller; works in GhostScript; but settransfer ignored by Apple Preview. So good in the important two of the three.)

jdaw1 wrote:Please inspect and comment upon the tasting-note pages in www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120731_circles_on_TNs.pdf