It is possible to save colourways to a special file format called “.cway”. This is particularly useful as it allows you to archive colourways separately from your design data (keeping storage requirements low) or simply e-mail them to someone else within your workflow.
Perhaps, you are colouring designs and wish to send colourway changes to someone in order to print them digitally. Rather than sending the entire design file (100’s of MB’s in size, most of which will not have changed) you can simply send the colourway information in this new file format. The format created is usually around 10 KB in size which is substantially easier to transfer than the entire design file.
Saving colourways from a document
This is perfect if you want to copy all the colourways from one design to another design, for example a co-ordinating design.
Go to Colourway Menu > Save Colourways…
Note: Only the colourway names plus the actual colours are saved in the file. This feature does not store the colourway layout. All colourways are saved but icc profiles are ignored.
Loading colourways into a document
Go to the Colourway Menu > Load Colourways…
The function Remove Duplicate Colourways is activated automatically when you load colourways to a file (see description below) to ensure no duplicate colourways exist in the file. After loading, you will be informed of how many colourways were added and how many duplicates (if any) were removed.
Removing duplicate colourways
The Remove Duplicate Colourways function will remove identical colourways from a design in one simple step.
If a design was created in a version prior to AVA 3.0, it will contain a series of black colourways up to number 32. Choosing Remove Duplicate Colourways will remove all but one of the black colourways and will retain all other unique colourways in the file.
From the Design Window, go to Colourway Menu > Remove Duplicate Colourways.
A colourway is considered a duplicate if each colour as well as the colourway name and any embedded icc profiles are the same. When a duplicate is found, the one with the higher colourway number is removed. This command is not only useful to remove black or blank colourways but also for removing any other duplicates which may have been created during the colouring process.
Note: As with any other delete operations relating to colours, colourway objects in the Layout Window will need to be reset incase the viewed colourways have changed due to the deleting of some colourways which were being displayed on the page.