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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 11-2-13 on page 731.
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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{111.83385pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xcolor}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\newcommand\blob[1]{{\color{#1}\rule{1.5cm}{5mm}}}
\blob{blue} \blob{blue!75} \\ \blob{blue!50} \blob{blue!25}
\end{document}