in: Orienteering; Gear & Toys;
| # Posted 2008-05-01 21:33:27 | |
| petergolde: | I'm excited to announce the second beta release of Purple Pen -- software for orienteering course design. Purple Pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. (If you've used OCAD's course setting mode, or Condes, Purple Pen has a similar function, although the user interface is substantially simpler.)
Design your courses visually -- directly on any OCAD map (OCAD 6 through 9). View the course and the control descriptions at the same time, and simply click on the control descriptions to set the correct description for each control. Purple Pen automatically does all the busywork: * Directly print maps with courses from Purple Pen, or export course maps to OCAD. * Print a perfectly formatted control description sheet, with symbolic or English descriptions (or both). English descriptions are automatically generated. Description sheets can be placed onto the map. * Calculate the length of each course automatically. * Make sure that the codes and descriptions of shared controls are in sync. * View or print an all controls map. * Easily change control codes - one at a time or all at once. * Calculate how many competitors are visiting a control or running a leg. * Print master punch cards for easy control card checking. * Export course data to event management or electronic punching software (IOF standard XML format). * View or print several different reports about the courses and controls. Best of all, Purple Pen is completely free (and open-source) software. Purple Pen requires Windows XP or Windows Vista. You can download Purple Pen from http://purplepen.golde.org. Full documentation is included. Peter Golde |
| # Posted 2008-05-02 06:17:11 | |
| tnipen: | very nice. This software is a lot more intuitive than OCAD's course setting utility. Do you need to have OCAD installed in order to load an ocad file into purple pen? |
| # Posted 2008-05-07 00:35:48 | |
| petergolde: | No, you do not need to have OCAD installed to use Purple Pen. |
| # Posted 2008-05-07 01:41:39 | |
| tnipen: | That is great to hear. Now I can get club members that don't know OCAD to use this software instead when planning courses! |
| # Posted 2008-05-07 02:00:23 | |
| pi: | Awesome! Buying Ocad for every club member that plans a training is not viable. I also tried Purple Pen briefly yesterday. Looks promising. |
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