Purple Pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. You can design your courses visually - directly on any OCAD map. It has a user-friendly interface where you can view the course and the control descriptions at the same time; simply click on the control descriptions to set the correct description for each control. Purple Pen automatically does all the hard work:
v2.6 [Dec 4, 2015]
New features
Polish and Hungarian translations included.
Now supports IOF XML version 3.0 export along with version 2.0.3.
IOF XML export (both versions 2 and 3) now output real-world coordinates of controls when used with a geo-referenced OCAD map.
New support for text control descriptions to enable languages such as Polish to include nouns that change case based on modifiers in other columns.
Bug fixes
Ghostscript version updated to 9.16. This will require a re-download and install of Ghostscript when using PDF maps.
In IOF XML export, sometime the wrong decimal separator was used for decimal numbers.
Fixed appearance when running on high-DPI displays (such as Surface 4).
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