Purple Pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. You can design your courses visually - directly on any OCAD map. It has a user-friendly interface where you can view the course and the control descriptions at the same time; simply click on the control descriptions to set the correct description for each control. Purple Pen automatically does all the hard work:
v2.5 [Feb 6, 2015]
Features
- Added the "Course/Duplicate Course..." command to duplicate a course.
- Added the ability to override the automatic computation of course length and specify a course length in the course properties.
- When a control that is shared between multiple courses is moved, a dialog now comes up asking if you want to move that control is all courses, or create a new control This does not occur if you move a control on the All Controls display, or move a control less than 50 meters. This helps a common confusion, especially among beginners.
- After deleting a control, the control that preceded it is selected. This makes it easier to add a new control.
- On commands that have a list of courses to select from (Print, Create OCAD files, etc.), the set of courses selected is preserved between invocations of the command.
- Printing courses has an option to pause printing after each course or course part is printed. This allows easily changing paper or flipping paper over to print the back side.
- Textual control descriptions can be done in Japanese.
- The default number of copies of a course to print is always 1.
- Remove the "Exit" button from the initial screen, since there is already an "X" button in the top corner.
Bug Fixes
- Fix problem where Purple Pen would not draw some text objects in the OCAD 11 layout layer.
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