AVA CAD/CAM supports PANTONE®®® colour files which are available for purchase upon request. For more information and pricing, please contact our sales department. We also support CxF colour files.
Opening PANTONE®®® colour files
AVA is able to supply colour files with data for the PANTONE®® Matching System ® and PANTONE®® fashion and home colours. These colour files include full reflectance data for the PANTONE®® colours.
PANTONE®® Matching System
- PANTONE®® solid coated
- PANTONE®® solid matte
- PANTONE®® solid uncoated
PANTONE®® Fashion and Home
- PANTONE®®® FHI Cotton TCX
- PANTONE®®® FHI Paper TPG
- PANTONE®® f + h paper
Copyright Information
PANTONE®®® Colours displayed by AVA may not match PANTONE®®-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE®® Colour Publications for accurate colour. PANTONE®®® and other PANTONE®®, Inc. trademarks are the property of PANTONE®®, Inc. © PANTONE®®, Inc., 2007.
PANTONE®®, Inc. is the copyright owner of colour data and/or software which are licensed to AVA CAD/CAM to distribute for use only in combination with AVA and its related applications. PANTONE®® Colour Data and/or software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of AVA and its related applications.
Opening Datacolour QTX files
ColourSys opens Datacolour QTX files, including ones which were saved in batch mode
- Go to File Menu > Open
- Select the mode ColourSys and Text Import in the open window and highlight a “.qtx” file
Working with CxF files
The CxF file format is an industry standard for colour interchange. In ColourSys you can open an array of this widely used file type.
The following files can be opened into ColourSys, by going to File Menu > Open.
- Files exported as CxF from ColourSys
- Files created by X-Rite’s i1 software (containing reflectance data)
- X-Rite’s example CxF from the SDK
- ORIS CxF Toolbox
Note: If you come across an unreadable CxF example file, please send the file to AVA Technical Support. It is possible (but not guaranteed) that we may be able to look into it.
Opening named colour profiles
Named colour profiles (NCP) are a colour space that consists of named colours. These profiles are often used to save colour swatch libraries (used by PANTONE®®® and others). Their file format is “.icc”, and they consist of LAB values.
In ColourSys, you have the ability to open this type of file to use as a new colour library.
- Go to File Menu > Open
- Set the Enable option to ColourSys and Text Import
- Select your NCP (such as the Web safe colour profile) and the colours will be displayed as a colour file