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Custom tasting placemats - 2/12/2007 11:28:21 AM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		When organising a tasting, which for me is almost always a port tasting, I make a placemat for the glasses. Clearly labelled places helps avoid confusion later in the evening. Most of two years ago, in a burst of enthusiasm, I tidied the PostScript code and put it on the web at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html. It’s not really suitable for those with no computer abilities, but for others, it might prove a useful way to make such placemats.

It’s free (and, being written entirely in PostScript, harmless). And I think that it deserves being used more widely.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 2/12/2007 2:26:21 PM   
mbannon

 

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Status: offline 		Wow.  Now THAT is geeky (and quite handy)!  Thanks!

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 2/12/2007 5:05:00 PM   
RicAnd

 

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Status: offline 		Wow.. nice, thanks.

btw.. if the example is representative of your port tasting.. can I come? :-)

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 2/13/2007 6:23:49 AM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		Thank you for nice comments. Please do send me examples of what you make with it, and any suggestions you might have for extra features.



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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/18/2010 2:55:28 PM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		It has been 3⅓ years since the previous post, during which this software has gained many features, much robustness, better defaults, and more users. Perhaps the last should include you.

One thing hasn’t changed—the cost: £0 = $0 = ¥0 = €0 = ZWD gazillion. Totally open-source (not even freemium), with the code and the manual on the web at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/18/2010 3:21:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is so geeky, but brilliant. Thank you.

I feel as though I should be replying in binary!!!

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 12:14:44 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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Status: offline 		For the computer illiterate can you simply say whether it is likely that we could use this for red wine tasting?
I wouldn't need it for Port.
Also what downloads would you expect me to need to make onto a bog-standard HP PC.
L.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 1:34:41 AM   
jdaw1

 

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For the computer illiterate can you simply say whether it is likely that we could use this for red wine tasting?
Red, white, sparkles, fortified, spirits: what it does is elegantly labelled places to put glasses, matching pages on which to write tasting notes, and, optionally, other paperwork useful for organising a tasting. For example see a large tasting of Graham’s Malvedos (port), and some whiskies from the SMWS.



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Also what downloads would you expect me to need to make onto a bog-standard HP PC.
There are clear instructions in the section of the manual entitled Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners, which seems like a good place to start. What you’d be doing is downloading the PostScript file from www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.ps; using a text editor to change its parameters from the defaults used to make the above picture to whatever is appropriate for your tasting; and then converting it to PDF, probably by uploading it to ps2pdf.com. But again I say, read Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 1:36:54 AM   
jdaw1

 

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I feel as though I should be replying in binary!!!
No: the language of PostScript is plain ASCII human-readable text. Which should reassure the security-conscious.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 6:28:32 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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Status: offline 		Tx, although I suspect I'll look for help.
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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 6:38:59 AM   
pbm

 

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Status: offline 		Soooooo, any options for something similar for those of us who don't speak computer? I mean this seems really cool but I understood as much of what was on that link as I did in Greek school growing up.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 6/19/2010 9:18:35 AM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		It is really cool, and I am willing to help you master it. But you must be willing to help too. A little work—not a lot, but more than none—is required.

Start at the green box on the manual page, the box entitled Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners. Work through that one • at a time. Use the links (mostly internal to the manual page) within that box. If there’s something you don’t understand, tell me what. Then I’ll: first, explain it you; and second, improve the manual page.

Other non-computer people use this software. You can too.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 1/19/2021 2:20:09 PM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		I’ve decided that the code should exist in a proper repository, to allow submission and discussion of issues, to allow others to contribute to the PostScript, and for better death-proofing. Hence ∃ github.com/jdaw1/placemat.

Two issues ask a question of GitHub experts (Software licence; Documentation: HTML or Markdown or other?). If you can answer, please do.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 1/19/2021 3:55:01 PM   
Eddie

 

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Status: offline 		My next-door-neighbor, who moved here from California, used to own a wine-themed curio-and-accessory business in Sonoma County. She does stuff like the above, but on permanent media: ceramic coasters, cloth goods, just about any custom wine-themed doodad you can imagine. Let me know if you want her contact info.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 1/20/2021 2:13:54 PM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		Yes please. Either send your neighbour’s details to me (contact info), or mine to your neighbour.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 1/20/2021 2:36:18 PM   
mclancy10006

 

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Status: offline 		Sent you a few comments/ideas on the github.

-Mark

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 2/13/2021 10:38:19 AM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		The move to GitHub is complete. If you have published links to this software, please update them to:
• http://github.com/jdaw1/placemat/
• http://github.com/jdaw1/placemat/blob/main/PostScript/placemat.ps
• http://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdaw1/placemat/main/PostScript/placemat.ps
as appropriate.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 9/7/2021 1:21:18 PM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		Everybody loves a pork pie tasting.


(Image fails: don’t know why. Image at www.jdawiseman.com/2021/20210904_Pork_Pies_2.png.)

Pork-pie placemats were made by an abuse of the parameters, and there is discussion about whether their production should be regularised. Comment welcome, ideally in issue 153.


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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 9/7/2021 1:31:51 PM   
mclancy10006

 

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 9/7/2021 3:55:12 PM   
jdaw1

 

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Status: offline 		I use hotlinking to post images on forums, and even today it works here.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 9/7/2021 8:10:33 PM   
Paul852

 

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Status: offline 		My guess is that PNG is too recent a format for the 20th forum software still in use here. You could try resaving it as a JPEG.

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RE: Custom tasting placemats - 9/8/2021 7:23:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I read this thread title as Custom tasting placentas. Same thing right?

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