<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Using the following simple code (intended to draw an ellipsoid)<div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">\begin{pspicture}(-5,-5.0)(3.5,5.5) </font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">\psset{unit=0.75}</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">\psset{lightsrc=50 20 50,viewpoint=40 20 30 rtp2xyz,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Decran=50}</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">\psSolid</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">[</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">object=sphere,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">rotY=90,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">r=1,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fillcolor=gray!65,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ngrid=18 18,</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">transform={2.24 2.58 4.47 scaleOpoint3d},</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">]</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">\end{pspicture}</font></div></blockquote><div><div>I get the error message</div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">! Package xkeyval Error: `rotY' undefined in families `,pst-solides3d,pst-3d,ps</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">tricks-add,pst-3dplot'.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Type H <return> for immediate help.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> ... </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p></blockquote></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I ran \listfiles, which gives </span></font></p><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> *File List*</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> size11.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-solides3d.sty 2009/07/25 package wrapper for pst-solides3d</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pstricks.sty 2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pstricks.tex 2009/05/19 v1.29 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> xcolor.sty 2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-solides3d.tex 2009/08/11 v4.16 `PST-solides3D'</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-xkey.tex 2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> xkeyval.sty 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> solides.pro 2008/10/30 v. 4.13, PostScript prologue file</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-3dplot.sty 2009/07/28 package wrapper for pst-3dplot.tex (hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-3dplot.tex 2009/10/06 v1.86 `PST-3dplot' (hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-math.sty 2009/01/20 package wrapper for PSTricks pst-math.tex</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pstricks-add.sty 2009/03/17 v. 0.13 package wrapper for pstricks-add.tex (hv</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pstricks-add.tex 2009/10/06 v0.23 `PSTricks-add' (hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> pst-3d.sty 2005/09/02 package wrapper for pst-3d.tex (hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> pst-3d.tex 2005/09/03 v1.00 `PST-3d' (tvz)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> ***********</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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Rerun to get cross-references right.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> )</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Output written on "pst3d test 1.dvi" (1 page, 3492 bytes).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Transcript written on "pst3d test 1.log".</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">### WARNING: TeX returned non zero exit status </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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