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  Tile Path
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The Tile Path command may be used to apply a repetative decoration to a font.
A decoration is copied into the selection (this is the "tile") and the command
is invoked on a glyph. All paths in that glyph will be replaced by the tile
fit to the curve.
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Consider the following:
<TABLE BORDER CELLPADDING="2">
  <TR ALIGN=Center>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-selection.png" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      The tile</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-orig.png" WIDTH="188" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      Two paths to be tiled.</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-final.png" WIDTH="188" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      The result.</TD>
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The tile has been replicated (and warped) to follow the original contours.
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<IMG SRC="TilePath.png" WIDTH="303" HEIGHT="148"><BR>
The Tile Path dialog gives you a few choices to control how the tile is placed.
The tile can be either centered on the path, or be tangent to the left edge
of the path (for a clockwise path, the left edge is outside the path), or
be tangent to the right edge (for a clockwise path the right edge is inside
the path).
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You can also chose whether you want the tile to be tiled without scaling
(in which case you will probably be left with a fraction of the tile at one
end), tiled with scaling (the tile will be scaled so that it fits on the
path an integral number of times), or simply scaled (in which case there
will be exactly one tile and it will be scaled to be as long as the path.
<TABLE BORDER CELLPADDING="2">
  <TR ALIGN=Center>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-left.png" WIDTH="153" HEIGHT="244"><BR>
      left (outside)</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-center.png" WIDTH="153" HEIGHT="244"><BR>
      center</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-right.png" WIDTH="153" HEIGHT="244"><BR>
      right (inside)</TD>
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  <TR ALIGN=Center>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-tile.png" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      tile</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-ts.png" WIDTH="70" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      tile &amp; scale</TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="tilepath-scale.png" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="220"><BR>
      scale</TD>
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