Tasting Mats - A new development?

[Alex Bridgeman]

I’m pondering the merits of adding another feature to the placemat software, but it wouldn’t work nicely on a decanter label. Do you use decanters or double-decant into bottles?

Through a combination of using my own decanters and water jugs and whatever I can borrow, I intend to use decanters on May 20.

But pray tell what the new developments will be.

The new ‘CirclifyTitles’ feature (described on the usual page) was used for a recent Madeira tasting. Note the cool vertical s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g of the titles, achieved by the code calling the TransformPath routine. But unwise if the decanter labels are to be pasted onto the back of a business card.

Personally, I find the stretching rather alarming and aggressive looking (perhaps it's the mild hangover). I am firmly a traditionalist and very much like the bold, dark and large block font that sits in the middle of the circle.

Just my personal preference.

Alex

[DRT]

I’m pondering the merits of adding another feature to the placemat software, but it wouldn’t work nicely on a decanter label. Do you use decanters or double-decant into bottles?

Through a combination of using my own decanters and water jugs and whatever I can borrow, I intend to use decanters on May 20.

But pray tell what the new developments will be.

The new ‘CirclifyTitles’ feature (described on the usual page) was used for a recent Madeira tasting. Note the cool vertical s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g of the titles, achieved by the code calling the TransformPath routine. But unwise if the decanter labels are to be pasted onto the back of a business card.

Personally, I find the stretching rather alarming and aggressive looking (perhaps it's the mild hangover). I am firmly a traditionalist and very much like the bold, dark and large block font that sits in the middle of the circle.

Just my personal preference.

Alex

I like the variety. This new feature extends the variants available and means that the style of tasting mat can be matched to the seriousness or otherwise of the off-line.

There are not many months left for Jdaw to produce the optimum Christmas Tasting Mat.

Derek

[Alex Bridgeman]

There are not many months left for Jdaw to produce the optimum Christmas Tasting Mat.

Now that one will have to be printed in colour...

[jdaw1]

Colour no problem, but IMHO unwise. One wants to look through glasses onto colourless stuff (predominantly white + black).

[Alex Bridgeman]

But surely one has to have an appropriately festive border around the tasting mat - intertwined holly leaves (including red berries) and dark green ivy perhaps.

Otherwise it could be any time of year and Christmas just a feeble excuse to drink port.