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allow printing purple below black on the map
When printing, allow the purple on the course to be printed as a layer "under" a specified OCAD layer on the map. This would allow, for example, for black on the map to not be obscured by the purple lines.
This would only work when printing directly from Purple Pen, not exporting to OCAD.
16 votesInstead of this feature, a slightly different and better feature is in 2.4: blending of the purple with the underlying map. You can turn this on and off by choosing Event/Customize Course Appearance, and checking the “blend purple with underlying map colors”.
This gives the same desired effect of allowing the black on the map to not be obscured by purple.
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Flagged path between controls
Sometimes you need to make a flagged path between two controls, marked with a dashed line on the map. It is no problem to insert a dashed line. But it should also be be marked on the definition. A function to add that information would be useful.
3 votesAs mentioned in my comment, this feature already exists. Item/Leg Flagging/Entire Leg Flagged.
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3 votes
This type of layout can be accomplished relatively easily as follows:
Please a registration mark at the start/finish location to help with positioning everything accurately. Place the start and finish at that point, and the control around them either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Leave the leg from start to control 1 alone.
Select the leg from 1 to 2, and select Item/Add Bend, then click exactly on the registration mark (zoom in to get this accurately).
Continue doing the same thing with every leg except the one from the last control to the finish.Delete the registration mark once everything is perfectly positioned.
Finally, use Event/Customize Appearance to set the leg gap size to 0.01mm.
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don't assume user knows OCAD
I am trying Purple Pen because I have an OCAD map file but I do not have OCAD. Much of the help text seems to assume familiarity with OCAD.
1 voteThis isn’t really a specific suggestion.
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1 vote
This is a duplicate of “Allow all controls to be moved”
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Allow Purple Pen to open encrypted OCAD maps ie xxx.eocd
OCAD 11 can easily create encrypted OCAD files ie xxx.eocd with a password. This helps protect copyright in OCAD files.
1 voteThis is technically not possible. These file are encrypted and OCAD does not reveal the encryption key (for obvious reasons).
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Change the settings to ISOM Symbol sizes when the map scale is entered. ie if map scale is 1:10000, control circle diameter is 9.00mm.
When a new file is created, the default symbol sizes are set for ISOM 2000 at 1:15000, no matter what the scale of the map is. There is a screen to specify the map size, so why not link this to the setting in the Customize Appearance screen.
(Incidentally, ISOM 2017 has changed these symbol sizes - made them smaller - so the circle size at 1:10000 should now be 7.50mm.)1 voteThis is not correct; the circle sizes do not change with the scale of the map. In ISOM 2000, section 4.7:
“The size of these symbols for 1:10 000 maps should be the same as for 1:15 000 maps.”
ISOM 2017 support is coming in a future version (late 2017)
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