le an area with a repeating pattern of bits or lines helpful for suggesting textures. The graphics system supports two types of fill patterns. Bitmap patterns, familiar to most computer users, tile the filled area with a repeated bitmap. Hatch patterns fill the area with a repeated sequence of lines. Hatch patterns are defined in terms of families of parallel lines. <A NAME="Shapes_12.htm_IX_PatternType">
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Patterns are referenced by a <CODE>
PatternType</CODE>
 and an index, stored in a <A NAME="Shapes