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 — …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Purple Pen is free software. There is no guaranteed support. However, support is provided via the Purple Pen mailing list on Yahoo Groups. If you have a question, problem, or suggestions, …

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 …

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. …

By translating Purple Pen, you open up its use to a vast number of people who would be unable or unwilling to use it in English. There are two separate kinds of translations for 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. …