At the moment if I draw white area it appears on each course.
If it could appear only in the one selected that would be great!

Very useful to mask area around the post.

I like hotkeys, they make things faster. Only hotkey that I managed to find was Ctrl-A for new Control.

I would suggest at least two new hotkeys:
- Select some element, Ctrl-C would copy it.
- Add last added item, Ctrl-L or Ctrl-N, or something else.

I think those would make things lot easier and faster and for the implementation point of view, doesn't sound big to implement.

I have found Purple Pen to be a fantastic planning resource. I want to make the case for a donation to my local orienteering club and it would help to know something of how things work behind the scenes!

Import existing XML file with controls and courses generated in Ocad. The XML file must be generated with georeferenced coordinates.

Peter, I can't find the correct way to report an issue so hence above note. Brian Slater HALO UK

Many years ago I used a planning program called Wincacs. One place it won out over purple pen was in its display of leg and control load. By drawing all used legs and controls in an event, with different size circles and thickness of lines depending on the loading it gave a much quicker idea of which legs and controls are overloaded. Currently this is a lot more clunky in purple pen. Its not critical, but it would be a nice addition.

As a professional map printer, we usually supply the control descriptions glued at the head, and print 4 or 5 courses at one time, but is it possible to stop Purple Pen filling a sheet with cd's and just have them arranged at the head?

Pourquoi, alors qu'il y a la possibilité de saisir ses schémas de poinçon, il n'y a pas la possibilité d'imprimer un carton de correction ?
Il serait vraiment intéressant d'imprimer les cartons de correction

i need to use 2 types of controls, mandatory ones (in blue for example) and optionnal ones (in violine).
It's to use with pupils (in france ) in team races (from 2 to 4 members).
Thanks for helping

Est-il envisageable d'avoir la possibilité de modifier la couleur de certains postes (= course au réseau de postes en scolaire) Ex : avoir certains postes en violine et d'autres postes en bleu. Cela peut aussi permettre aux créateurs de circuits de différencier leurs circuits par des couleurs de postes différentes.

Beginners are prone to mistaking 9 for 6.

1. Assign a keyboard shortcut to Item>Remove Bends to speed up the process of removing bends from a course.

2. Create a "Remove all bends" feature to remove all bends from a course or set of courses.

3. Allow courses with straight lines joining controls and also the same courses with lines bent round objects to exist in the same PP file.

The new support for butterflies and relay forking is great, but it would be awesome to have the option of creating course variations with phi-loops as well. These seem to be more commonly used by planners than traditional butterfly loops these days.

(Basic diagram of a phi-loop here, although note you can also include controls on the diagonal between 1,6 and 3,7: http://news.worldofo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/philoop-300x226.jpg)

The simplest addtions are direction indicators in column 8 of the CDs - Arrows for each compas direction - and control codes that allow for A-E, A-C, A etc, which already works, but only once per code. The next is to add small dots for the solutions sheet where the kites are placed including the zero (non existant kite).

The perceived shortest route for a leg often depend on how you look at the map.
I would like to be able to look at the map in the direction aligned with a certain leg of the course. To choose a challenging location for the control. Especially for sprints, I noticed that sometimes a different route choice seems obvious depending on whether you look with North on top or with me next control on top.

Allow for drawing more than one courses on the same printout.

Any map detail between the end of the tail and the circle part of the number tends to make the 6 or 9 look like an 8. A straight tail would never be mistaken for an 8.

When double clicking on the text, it should be possible to immediately edit the text.