<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I initially thought that the source of the difference between my output and Herbert's was a driver problem. But my local tech guy suggested it was a matter of not having the most recent software.<div>In the meantime, the new MacTex 2010 came out, so I downloaded it. When I then tried to run the same code, I got the error message</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; ">/usr/texbin/dvips: ! Couldn't find header file: solides.pro</div></blockquote><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><br></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Here is my file list from the run:</p><div><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; "> size10.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 2010/06/17 v0.45 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 2010/06/06 v2.08 `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; ">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; 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">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; "> 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-plot.sty 2010/01/22 package wrapper for pst-plot.tex</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">pst-plot.tex 2010/06/22 1.17 `pst-plot' (tvz,hv)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> amsmath.sty 2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> amstext.sty 2000/06/29 v2.01</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> amsbsy.sty 1999/11/29 v1.2d</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "> amsopn.sty 1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names</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><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; 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<br><div><div>On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:22, Herbert Voss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 15.09.2010 17:10, schrieb Zbigniew Nitecki:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to look at this carefully until today.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I literally copied your code below into a tex file and ran it on my machine. The <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">outcome differs from yours (yours is what I would want---or at least what I <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could work on to get what I want).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The difference is the printing of the black hyperbola on the upper gray plane.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My code and output are attached; any idea what might cause the difference?<br></blockquote><br>With your code I get exactly the same as with my last post.<br>See image<br><br>Herbert<br><span><x.png></span>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br>archive: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>