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Install Purple Pen

Simple, versatile, and free course setting software for orienteering

Install with winget

winget install --id Golde.PurplePen

Upgrade

winget upgrade --id Golde.PurplePen

Uninstall

winget uninstall --id Golde.PurplePen

About Purple Pen

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),...

What's new in 3.5.5.500

Bug Fixes - There was a bug with maps with missing templates. These should just silently ignore the template; instead they caused an immediate crash upon load. Now fixed to work like before.

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Version history

Version	Updated	Notes
3.5.5.500	Unknown	Bug Fixes - There was a bug with maps with missing templates. These should just silently ignore the template; instead they caused an immediate crash upon load. Now fixed to work like before.
3.4.1	Unknown	Version 3.4.1 has been released. Fixed regression with PDFs and missing control descriptions, regression with control number blending, and updated Out Of Bounds for ISSprOM-2019-2.