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The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#version_history]the manual[/url] wrote:+CircletextsSameFontSizeIfRadiiShrunkToBeSame. The need for a feature like this had been on the placemat software’s to-do list since 2007.
Appropriate values also added to the default of ExternalLinks.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=52756#p52756]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:It is the default of the placemat software’s main user but not of the software itself.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=52754#p52754]Here[/url] benread wrote:Is The Bung Hole a confirmed venue or simply the default parameter now in the placemat software?!
Though it’s not a bad idea. Why not write ‟The Bung Hole” rather than ‟London”?
Also see the organisation thread for the tasting of a smattering of Graham.The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#headers_footers]the manual[/url] wrote:Very rarely one might want the centre heading non-centred (e.g.). This can be controlled with HeaderFooterCenterRelativeX, which is the centre of the HeaderCenterText, 0 being at the left margin, 1 being at the right, and 0.5 in the centre.
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/HeaderFooterCenterRelativeX {TypeOfPagesBeingRendered /Glasses eq {GlassPositions SheetNum get 6 get 0 get MgnL sub PageWidth MgnL MgnR add sub div} {0.5} ifelse} def
The default value for HeaderFooterCenterRelativeX is plain ‟0.5”, as simple as can be. But the first time this parameter was used the value had to be changed to something computed from something deep in an array. Is that acceptable? Is this a question for the Taylor 1977 committee?Also the position of centre header needed to be changed, for which the code had been altered to add the parameter HeaderFooterCenterRelativeX. This was then assigned to some 132 characters of code, the complication of which might suggest that the form of this parameter was not optimally chosen.
I thought about that, and it seems to me that would require a major reworking of the software.DRT wrote:Would it be possible to print the left have portion of GM76 and G91 on the left hand sheet so that when the sheets are overlapped there is continuity in the spacing of the circles?
Alternatively, just using A3, you could print the left-hand sheet as is, and print a right-hand sheet which included the right-hand 5 columns (i.e. from 75/90 inclusive). Then, any vertical slice on the right-hand sheet through 63/83 would create a page which would overlap directly onto the left page to provide the continuous image, without onerous precision on the cutting.jdaw1 wrote:I thought about that, and it seems to me that would require a major reworking of the software.DRT wrote:Would it be possible to print the left have portion of GM76 and G91 on the left hand sheet so that when the sheets are overlapped there is continuity in the spacing of the circles?
What might perhaps be possible would be to print it to a custom paper size (about twice A3), and have a post-process to cut the print job into pieces.
But even if that could be done, in practice would the paper be positioned sufficiently accurately? And stay so positioned? Methinks not. And a similar question could be asked again with the answer presumed to be negative about the accuracy of the trimming of the margin area on which a printer won’t print.
That was completely obvious, but not quite so completely obvious that I thought of it. An excellent solution to the cutting problem. (Even if not quite to the precision-positioning problem.)PhilW wrote:Alternatively, just using A3, you could print the left-hand sheet as is, and print a right-hand sheet which included the right-hand 5 columns (i.e. from 75/90 inclusive). Then, any vertical slice on the right-hand sheet through 63/83 would create a page which would overlap directly onto the left page to provide the continuous image, without onerous precision on the cutting.
Everybody who is anybody, surely?RAYC wrote:What proportion of people own magnum decanters?
Oh.RAYC wrote:Not I
Splendid.RAYC wrote:But i might look out for a magnum decanter also (now that i own 7 double magnums of port and quite a few more of wine, !)
No: too heavy to use. A lot of wrist strength is needed to have the required careful control. Indeed, some have said the same of even a magnum decanter.RAYC wrote:perhaps also a double magnum decanter...
‟/DecanterLabelsNumCopies 0 def” admits the possibility of ‟2”. It doesn’t auto-detect the word ‟Magnum”, but can be set easily enough by hand.RAYC wrote:therefore i vote for a fancy bit of code that produces 2 decanter labels whenever the word "magnum" appears in titles, subtitles or overtitles etc.!
thank you - the auto-detect feature was slightly tongue-in-cheek!jdaw1 wrote:‟/DecanterLabelsNumCopies 0 def” admits the possibility of ‟2”. It doesn’t auto-detect the word ‟Magnum”, but can be set easily enough by hand.RAYC wrote:therefore i vote for a fancy bit of code that produces 2 decanter labels whenever the word "magnum" appears in titles, subtitles or overtitles etc.!
It worked well:jdaw1 wrote:That was completely obvious, but not quite so completely obvious that I thought of it. An excellent solution to the cutting problem. (Even if not quite to the precision-positioning problem.)PhilW wrote:Alternatively, just using A3, you could print the left-hand sheet as is, and print a right-hand sheet which included the right-hand 5 columns (i.e. from 75/90 inclusive). Then, any vertical slice on the right-hand sheet through 63/83 would create a page which would overlap directly onto the left page to provide the continuous image, without onerous precision on the cutting.
The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#prepour]the manual[/url] wrote:There can, rarely, be an additional complication. If a placemat is made from several A3 placemats, guillotined and overlapped !, then the same glass will appear on two sheets. But it should not have twice as many pre-pour sheets. This technicality is fixed with PrePourRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles, which, if true, removes duplicates, equivalence being determined by GlassesOnSheets having the same value of WithinTitles. The guillotine-and-overlap trick also messes with the order of the pre-pour sheets, sometimes fixable with PrePourSortByWithinTitles.
In summary: ask JDAW to produce the placemats when things get complicated.jdaw1 wrote:The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#prepour]the manual[/url] wrote:There can, rarely, be an additional complication. If a placemat is made from several A3 placemats, guillotined and overlapped !, then the same glass will appear on two sheets. But it should not have twice as many pre-pour sheets. This technicality is fixed with PrePourRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles, which, if true, removes duplicates, equivalence being determined by GlassesOnSheets having the same value of WithinTitles. The guillotine-and-overlap trick also messes with the order of the pre-pour sheets, sometimes fixable with PrePourSortByWithinTitles.
The new better behaviour is on by default, so you can do it.DRT wrote:In summary: ask JDAW to produce the placemats when things get complicated.
Radius = 120.2 pt  ⇒  diameter ≈ 3.34″ ≈ 84.8 mm.The last page of the [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121113_graham.pdf]placemats[/url] wrote:Radii = 120.2, all of them
Perhaps a simplification (in documentation) might be helpful; e.g. "For some layouts, it may be desirable for a specific bottle to appear on more than one glasses sheet (e.g. when using overlapping sheets). To avoid additional consequent duplication on subsequent sheets, defineDRT wrote:In summary: ask JDAW to produce the placemats when things get complicated.jdaw1 wrote:The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#prepour]the manual[/url] wrote:There can, rarely, be an additional complication. If a placemat is made from several A3 placemats, guillotined and overlapped !, then the same glass will appear on two sheets. But it should not have twice as many pre-pour sheets. This technicality is fixed with PrePourRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles, which, if true, removes duplicates, equivalence being determined by GlassesOnSheets having the same value of WithinTitles. The guillotine-and-overlap trick also messes with the order of the pre-pour sheets, sometimes fixable with PrePourSortByWithinTitles.
Comments still welcomed.jdaw1 wrote:see the eight TN sheets in the draft of the placemats for the March 2013 Taylor vertical. Comments welcomed.
My preference is for the layout of circles shown on the page starting at 1908, albeit that the positioning of the circles within the horizontal separator a is not quite perfect.jdaw1 wrote:Documentation updated with PhilW’s suggestion, and with new feature suggested by DRT.
Comments still welcomed.jdaw1 wrote:see the eight TN sheets in the draft of the placemats for the March 2013 Taylor vertical. Comments welcomed.
Fitting circles tightly is part of the mojo of the whole software. I could add a boolean TastingNotesCirclesBehindFitAndCentreInRow, but don’t like it.RAYC wrote:I ! don't quite understand why it can't be spaced horizontally across the entire page (or at least centred), notwithstanding that the circles would not "touch".
Added. On the usual five-glass A4 example, this being true reduces the radius of the circles on the TN sheets from 87.7071 to 77.7381. Equivalently, setting TastingNotesCirclesBehindFitAndCentreInRow to false would increase the area of these circles by +27.3%.jdaw1 wrote:Fitting circles tightly is part of the mojo of the whole software. I could add a boolean TastingNotesCirclesBehindFitAndCentreInRow, but don’t like it.
Does that mean that you would have been happy with an ordering like the following? (With obvious changing of which glasses on which sheets.)AHB wrote:continue from the same point when moving to the next sheet in the tasting notes.
Yes! This would have been much more comfortable for my aesthetics!jdaw1 wrote:Does that mean that you would have been happy with an ordering like the following?
Note to self: 0→1→0→½→½→1→1→½→0 gives the eight page types seen in the draft of the Taylor placemats for 22 March 2013, but in an order satisfying the ‘Bridgeman condition’.
Or 0→1→1→0→½→½→1→½→0.jdaw1 wrote:0→1→0→½→½→1→1→½→0
I agree with your first point (diagonals), and for the reason you give. Which suggests 0→1→0→½→1→1→½→½→0.PhilW wrote:Peronally I much prefer the diagonals over the verticals (and am not one of those previously expressing such view). I think probably because much of the page already contains grid-based elements, and the diagonal layout with circles adds good counterpoint. I also prefer the slightly larger circles which overlap the horizontal lines to the smaller ones which fit within; these are both purely aesthetic judgements.
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/Circlearrays [
1 1 6 9 mul {[ exch 2 string cvs ]} for
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/Titles [ Circlearrays {0 get} forall ] def
/Belowtitles [ Circlearrays length {()} repeat ] def
/Names [
[(JDA) {-0.08 Kern} (W)]
] def
/TastingNotesCirclesBehind true def
/TastingNotesCirclesBehindFadingFactor 0.35 def
/HeaderLeftText (TastingNotesCirclesBehind: a test) def
/HeaderCenterText [] def
/HeaderRightText [
(www) {-0.092 Kern} (.jdawiseman.com)
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/VoteRecorders false def
/NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 defAddition to log page:The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html#placematcopyright]the manual[/url] wrote:• Recent changes
December 2012
- +CopyrightStatementPlacemats, +LicensingAgreementTextPlacemats and +LicensingAgreementLinkPlacemats.
I do like this new defaultjdaw1 wrote:As illustrated in the following example, the default arrangement is now 0→1→0→½→1→1→½→½→0→0↻ (which includes all nine elements of {0, ½, 1} × {0, ½, 1}).
If there are more than nine TN sheets, the default pattern starts again at the beginning. Henceforth his should be considered a desideratum.
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/Circlearrays [ 1 1 6 9 mul {[ exch 2 string cvs ]} for ] def /Titles [ Circlearrays {0 get} forall ] def /Belowtitles [ Circlearrays length {()} repeat ] def /Names [ [(JDA) {-0.08 Kern} (W)] ] def /TastingNotesCirclesBehind true def /TastingNotesCirclesBehindFadingFactor 0.35 def /HeaderLeftText (TastingNotesCirclesBehind: a test) def /HeaderCenterText [] def /HeaderRightText [ (www) {-0.092 Kern} (.jdawiseman.com) ] def /VoteRecorders false def /NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 def
I like it so much I don't know how I managed to live without it.AHB wrote:I do like this new default
Excellentjdaw1 wrote:Roy Hersh has given the software a plug, on page 5 of issue 73 (December 2012) of his newsletter.
+1DRT wrote:Excellentjdaw1 wrote:Roy Hersh has given the software a plug, on page 5 of issue 73 (December 2012) of his newsletter.
New version has extra possible values for use in PermittedPackingStyles: /TopRow /MiddleRow /BottomRow.On [url=http://fortheloveofport.com/ftlopforum/viewtopic.php?p=83382#p83382]FTLoP[/url] Eric Menchen wrote:O.k., I'll throw this out there for Julian or an expert on this. I once made a sheet where there was one row across. I went to make a new sheet based on that, but I see the baseline has changed significantly, so I should probably use the new baseline ... How so I make an 11x17, landscape, with one row of six glasses across the top. I want there to be blank space below. Any pointers? (FYI, the 6 are 1955, 1970, 1977, 1985, 1992, and 2000 Taylor)
Later, on [url=http://fortheloveofport.com/ftlopforum/viewtopic.php?p=83873#p83873]FTLoP[/url] Eric Menchen wrote:Understood. But I was hacking, and my attempts to hack the new one weren't working so well, so I started with something I had already modified before. But the new version is really cool with the error report at the end when you render it.Julian D. A. Wiseman wrote:Please always start from the latest version. Things improve.
The used arrangement was /Gaia on US Ledger = 11″×17″ = /USL2.
Even later, on [url=http://fortheloveofport.com/ftlopforum/viewtopic.php?p=83889#p83889]FTLoP[/url] Eric Menchen wrote:My reason for using 11x17, and also for wanting to try to run the circles across the top was to accommodate a dinner plate. After we tasted the Port, I cooked up duck breasts served with a Port-cherry sauce. People could keep drinking what they had left with the dinner. With the Gaia arrangement it was necessary to move the glasses slightly, but you could still keep them arranged and know which was which.
jdaw1 wrote:You asked about the placemats. It is all completely free (not even freemium the version on the website is the same thing I use). Start at the manual, at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html.
A little scrolling down brings you to a green box entitled Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners. That has all the instructions, and even a link to the program at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.ps.
Don’t decide to start this one day before the tasting. You’ll be too busy. Please do have a play and experiment and test much further in advance.
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/GlassesOnSheetsMode /SpreadOverSheets def  % /SpreadOverSheets /Custom
/GlassesOnSheetsMaxPerSheet 6 def  % For all glasses on one sheet set to a big integer
/GlassesOnSheetsCustom [Â [ 0 1 2 3 ]Â [ 4 5 6 7 ]Â [ 8 9 10 11 ]Â ] def