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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 6-4-9 on page 387.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.83385pt}

\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\SpecialCoor
\newcommand\FHexagon{%
 \def\HRadius{0.25}%
 \begin{pspicture}(0.433,0.375)%
   \pspolygon(\HRadius;30)(\HRadius;90)%
       (\HRadius;150)(\HRadius;210)(\HRadius;270)(\HRadius;330)% hexagon
 \end{pspicture}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage[tiling]{pst-fill}
% \FHexagon as previously defined
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\psboxfill{\FHexagon}
\begin{pspicture}(-0.5,-0.5)(2.5,2.5)
 \psframe[linecolor=blue,fillstyle=boxfill,PstDebug=1](2,2)
\end{pspicture}\\[-10pt]
\begin{pspicture}(-0.5,-0.5)(2.5,2.5)
 \psframe[linecolor=blue,fillstyle=boxfill,
          fillcyclex=2,PstDebug=1](2,2)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}