
Documentation in English and Norwegian only.ĭirectly Uses OCAD Maps, OpenOrienteering Maps, and PDF maps Purple Pen is available in English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk), Finnish, Polish, Hungarian,īulgarian, Romanian, Estonian, and Japanese. On Mac or Linux, a Windows emulator such as Parallels or VirtualBox is required. Purple Pen runs on Windows XP through Windows 10.

Download control locations to your mobile GPS device.View or print several different reports about the courses and controls.Export course data to event management or electronic punching software (IOF standard XML format, version 2 or version.Print master punch cards for easy control card checking.Calculate how many competitors are visiting a control or running a leg.Easily change control codes - one at a time or all at once.Make sure that the codes and descriptions of shared controls are in sync.Calculate the length of each course automatically.Description sheets can be placed onto the map. Textual descriptionsĪre automatically generated. Print a perfectly formatted control description sheet, with symbolic or textual descriptions (or both).Use either an OCAD map (OCAD versions 6-12 supported), OpenOrienteering Mapper map, PDF map, or bitmap map (JPG, GIF,.Mapper for final printing, or create PDF files for a print shop. Print maps with courses overprints directly (without needing OCAD), or export course maps to OCAD or OpenOrienteering.Purple Pen automatically does all the busywork: View the course and the controlĭescriptions at the same time, and simply click on the control descriptions to set the correct description for each control.

Purple Pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and theirĭesign your courses visually - directly on any OCAD map, OpenOrienteering Map, or PDF map. Purple Pen is course setting software for orienteering.
