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## Manual chapters

This manual is broken down into the following chapters:

Chapter title | Chapter description
Introduction | This chapter.
Working with files | Describes how to select and open files for visualization.
Plots | Describes the concept of a plot and how to create them as well as detailed information about all VisIt plots.
Operators | Describes the concept of an operator and how to create them as well as information on all VisIt operators.
Saving and Printing | Describes how to save and print images.
Visualization windows | Describes how to interact with VisIt's visualization windows.
Subsetting | Describes the concept of a subset and tells how to create subsets.
Quantitative Analysis | Describes how to extract quantitative data from visualizations. This includes pick and reference lines.
Making it Pretty | Describes how to improve the presentation quality of visualizations using colors, annotations, lighting and view.
Animation and Keyframing | Describes how to view time varying databases as animations.
Interactive Tools | Describes how to interactively slice plots using VisIt's interactive tools.
Multiple Databases and Windows | Describes how to use database correlations and how to visualize databases using multiple visualization windows.
Remote visualization | Describes how to run VisIt's compute engine on remote computers.
Preferences | Describes how to set GUI look and feel preferences.
Help | Describes how to use VisIt's on line help.
Appendix A | Describes VisIt's command line options.
Appendix B | Describes how to set up password-less ssh.
Appendix C | Describes how to install VisIt.