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Allow import of ,omap or .xmap files
Instead of the expensive OCAD I use the Open Orienteering Mapper (https://sourceforge.net/p/oorienteering/home/Home/) for creating maps. This is an open source project and thus free. And does the just perfectly fine.
This can export as .OCAD but using its native .OMAP or .XMAP format would be better as exporting to .OCAD can be lossy. Thus you need to manage two formats
115 votesPurple Pen 3.0 beta 1 now contains support for Open Orienteering Mapper files. Please check it out and email in your feedback.
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support relay with forking (Farsta)
Directly support creating relays with forks, and have Purple Pen automatically create all the different variation maps.
101 votesPurple Pen 3.0 beta 1 contains support for relays and variations. Please check it out and email your feedback.
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80 votes
Version 2.1.0 now has this functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
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create files necessary for Route Gadget
Have Purple Pen export a JPG file of the map and the XML course file necessary to display the event in the Route Gadget program. This would allow the course setter to setup Route Gadget without using OCAD.
63 votesPurple Pen 1.1 now has a Create RouteGadget Files command that does this.
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allow map exchanges
Allow a map exchange to be placed onto a map. When printing/exporting courses, a separate map for each segment of the course appears (and descriptions for that segment on the map). When printing descriptions, a unified description for the entire course is printed.
61 votesVersion 2.0.0 now supports map exchanges.
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view other course at same time
Allow viewing another course at the same time as the current course, so that you can compare two courses on screen.
59 votesThis was implemented in version 3.1.2.
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export in jpg/png for Quickroute
give the possibility to export courses as jpg or png with lower quality, for uses in Quickroute/3Drerun
41 votesImplemented in 3.2.0
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Add possibility to place image on top of blank area or line
Add possibility to place image on top of blank area or line
36 votesThis is fixed in version 3.1.2 and later.
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All controls view to have printable control descriptions
Currently you have to create a score course to do this. It would save time if the all controls view could be set up to print with its own control descriptions
32 votesVersion 2.0.0 now supports control descriptions on the All Controls display.
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create PDFs from courses
Have a Create PDFs command that would be like Print Courses, but would create a PDF file for each course.
26 votesVersion 2.1.0 has this functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
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24 votes
This has been added in version 1.0.2
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draw white area only on selected course
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!20 votesYou can do this in Purple Pen already. Draw a white area, click on it, then select Item/Change Displayed Courses, and select which courses it is displayed in.
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allow placing image on the course
Allow a special object that is a bitmap/jpeg image to be placed onto courses.
18 votesIn Version 2.3.0, you can place an image on the course.
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Allow OCAD background maps
We often split an OCAD map with a map content file and a frame file. This allows us to produce maps of large school sites with one base and have multiple extracts. It is also a useful approach for very large maps.
The reason for this approach is to only have one survey file. We have a frame file and bring in a partial map as a background file. To make this work in Purplepen we have to import the OCAD background to make one flat file.
14 votesVersion 2.2 Of Purple Pen now fully supports OCAD background files/maps.
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Provide the option of control circles with a centre dot
For urban street events, allowing accurate control location for simple street maps, as used for winter night events.
13 votesVersion 2.0.0 allows a central dot to be configured in Event/Customize Course Appearance.
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improve score-O events
Possible improvements:
- Optionally number score-O controls (1, 2, 3...)
- Place points in a different column of the description (e.g., after column H)
- Score-O without points display at all (if all controls are the same amount, or you have to go all controls)
13 votesPurple Pen 1.1 now address this with new options in Course Properties.
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support OCAD 10 format files
Allow reading and exporting files in OCAD 10 format
12 votesPurple Pen 1.1 now supports OCAD 10 format files, including all new OCAD 10 symbols.
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Allow editing (text, color) custom text box after creating it
Currently, when creating custom text box and putting it somewhere on the map, you cannot afterwards just click on it and change it. Currently, if you need to do some changes in text, you basically, need to delete previous text box and create one again. Also it is quite often needed to change color of the text, which is created. So - when adding possibility to work with the text box, it is required to holistically look at this feature, so that it can be changed, edited, color changed etc. Also - it would be required to be able to…
9 votesSelect the text item by clicking on it. Then select “Change Text…” from the “Item” menu.
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Include georeferencing (where available) in exports for Routegadget
Having a single menu item to export the course data (XML) and map image (GIF) for Routegadget is very useful, thank you. But it seems that the exported map image is not georeferenced, even if the OCAD map is. Is it possible to create and export the GFW file too?
9 votesImplemented in 3.2.0
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Add a way of copying a course
In connection with the option to view another course at the same time this would facilitate the development of alternative options.
8 votesCourse/Duplicate Course is in version 2.5.0
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