Purple Pen
Purple Pen is course setting software for orienteering. Purple Pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. Design your courses visually — directly on any OCAD map, OpenOrienteering Map, or PDF map.
Purple Pen Change Summary
Purple Pen allows you to view either parts of the course, or the entire course, and creates partial or full control descriptions, as appropriate. You can set a different print area for each part of a course with a map exchange, although all parts must be on the same map file.
About Purple Pen
FAQ Check the following to see if your question is answered. Purple Pen Will Not Start Sometimes existing problems on your Windows installation prevent Purple Pen from starting. The following steps usually can resolve these problems. Turn your computer fully off, then on. Make sure you have at least 1GB of free disk space.
About Purple Pen
Purple Pen uses a simple user interface with a single window that displays both the course and control descriptions simultaneously. Many changes can be done by simply clicking on what you want to change and making the change directly.
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Purple Pen now correctly displays and print almost all features just like OCAD, so the Print Courses command now is recommended for use. For those few features it doesn't support, PP will detect and warn you before you print.
Translating Symbolic Description - Purple Pen
To translate the symbolic descriptions, you use some hidden commands in Purple Pen. Once you have installed your new version of Purple Pen, run it and open the sample event.
Using VirtualBox to run Purple Pen on Mac OS X or Linux
Although Purple Pen is a Windows-only program, you can use the free Virtual Box program to run a virtual machine on your Mac or Linux computer. Within that virtual machine, you can run a copy of Windows, and inside that copy of Windows, download and run Purple Pen.
About Purple Pen
Purple Pen Will Not Start Sometimes existing problems on your Windows installation prevent Purple Pen from starting. The following steps usually can resolve these problems.
How to Contribute to Purple Pen
The easiest and most important way that you can help to improve Purple Pen is by giving feedback. In order to improve it, we need to know what is broken, missing, or could be better.
Translating the User Interface - Purple Pen
Purple Pen uses a web-based service called LaunchPad to translate the user interface. LaunchPad allows many people to collaborate on translating pieces of text in the program.