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. 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:
- Print maps with courses overprints directly (without needing OCAD), or export course maps to OCAD or OpenOrienteering Mapper for final printing, or create PDF files for a print shop.
- Use either an OCAD map (OCAD versions 6-12 supported), OpenOrienteering Mapper map, PDF map, or bitmap map (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP).
- Print a perfectly formatted control description sheet, with symbolic or textual descriptions (or both). Textual 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, version 2 or version 3).
- View or print several different reports about the courses and controls.
- Download control locations to your mobile GPS device.
- Supports both the IOF 2000, 2018, and 2024 control description standards.
Best of all, Purple Pen is completely free software.
Purple Pen runs on Windows 7 through Windows 10. On Mac or Linux, a Windows emulator such as Parallels or VirtualBox is required. See here for more information.
Purple Pen is available in English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk), Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Estonian, and Japanese. Documentation in English and Norwegian only.
Directly Uses OCAD Maps, OpenOrienteering Maps, and PDF maps
Purple Pen directly loads and displays an OCAD map for your event. OCAD versions 6 and above are supported. For those using OpenOrienteering Mapper, Purple Pen fully supports that file format (.omap/.xmap) also. You design your courses directly on the OCAD or OOM map, which can be displayed at any level of detail. You can also use a bitmap file such as TIFF or JPEG as a map, or use a PDF file as a map.
Simple User Interface
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. No special "preview" modes -- everything is live all the time. Every change can be undone, with up to 100 levels of undo and redo. Simplicity was the guiding principle in designing Purple Pen.
Conforms to IOF Standards
Purple Pen fully supports the IOF 2004 and 2018 Control Description Standards. Purple Pen can create standard IOF XML interchange files (both version 2 and version 3), which allow the course data to be directly transferred to electronic punching or event management programs.
Udgiverens beskrivelse (engelsk)
Hvad er Purple Pen?
Purple Pen fra Purple Pen Software er gratis software til Windows.
Installation og systemkrav
Udgiveren tilbyder installationsfiler til 64-bit (EXE (Inno Setup)). Installationen kræver administratorrettigheder. Med installationsfilens dokumenterede parametre kan programmet installeres lydløst.
Opdateringer og versionshistorik
Den nyeste version er 3.5.5.500, udgivet 16. september 2022. Versionshistorikken rummer 2 udgivelser og går tilbage til 16. september 2022; alle linker til de officielle filer. Den seneste opdatering er mere end et år gammel.
Popularitet og filtyper
Chocolatey-pakken er downloadet 1.395 gange. I Windows registrerer programmet én filtype, blandt andet .ppen.
Fordele / Ulemper
Fordele
- Gratis at bruge
- Dokumenteret lydløs installation
Ulemper
- Ingen indbygget ARM64-version
- Installationen kræver administratorrettigheder
- Ingen opdatering i over et år
Kort sagt: Purple Pen er et gratis værktøj til Windows til pc’er med 64-bit. Opdateringerne er blevet sjældnere. Administratorer kan udrulle det uovervåget.
Er det sikkert at downloade Purple Pen?
- Filen leveres af purple-pen.org, udgiverens eget domæne
- Downloadlinket bruger HTTPS
- Der er offentliggjort en SHA256-hash, så du kan kontrollere filen:
ECA37B59A0B228030D5D92BB66C4C078C29285423E8F54362E830EB1844D3164· Åbn VirusTotal-rapporten for denne hash - Linket er ikke kontrolleret endnu
- ExeAtlas hoster, indpakker eller ændrer ikke installationsfiler
Relateret vejledning: Sådan tjekker du en fils SHA256-hash i Windows
Nyeste versioner
Alle 2 versioner ›| Version | Dato | Størrelse | Filer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5.5.500Nyeste | 16. september 2022 | — | 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup) |
| 3.4.1 | 16. september 2022 | — | 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup) |
Installér fra kommandolinjen
Lydløs installation ›winget install --id Golde.PurplePen -echoco install purplepen -ypurplepen-355.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-Relateret vejledning: winget: installer og opdater programmer i Windows
Information
- Udgiver
- Purple Pen Software
- Licens
- Freeware
- Pris
- Gratis
- Kildekode
- github.com
- Kræver
- Windows 11 / 10
- Arkitektur
- 64-bit
- Installationsfil
- EXE (Inno Setup)
- Version
- 3.5.5.500
- Udgivet
- 16. september 2022
- I kataloget siden
- 4. januar 2023
- Registrerede versioner
- 2
- Downloads via Chocolatey
- 1.395
- Websted
- purple-pen.org
- winget-id
- Golde.PurplePen
- Chocolatey-pakke
- purplepen
Filtyper, som programmet åbner (1)
Bedømmelser og anmeldelser
Ingen anmeldelser endnu. Vær den første til at bedømme programmet.
Ofte stillede spørgsmål
Er Purple Pen gratis?
Ja. Purple Pen er gratis at bruge.
Er det sikkert at downloade Purple Pen?
Filen kommer fra purple-pen.org, som tilhører udgiveren; ExeAtlas hoster eller ændrer den ikke. Sammenlign filens SHA256-hash med den, der vises her, eller åbn VirusTotal-rapporten for hashen.
Hvordan installerer jeg Purple Pen med winget?
Åbn PowerShell eller Windows Terminal, og kør winget-kommandoen, der vises på denne side. winget downloader den officielle installationsfil og kontrollerer SHA256-hashen, før den køres.
Kan Purple Pen installeres lydløst?
Ja. Siden om lydløs installation viser den præcise kommando for hver installationsfil.
Kører Purple Pen på ARM (Windows on Arm)?
Der findes ingen ARM64-version; Windows 11 on Arm kan køre versionen til 64-bit via emulering.
Hvor kan jeg downloade en ældre version af Purple Pen?
Versionssiden viser alle 2 versioner siden 16. september 2022 med links til de officielle installationsfiler.