## 1.3 Getting Started

This section will help new users get started with POV-Ray for Unix.

Section Contents

- 1.3.1 Available distributions
- 1.3.2 Configuration
  - 1.3.2.1 The I/O Restrictions configuration file
  - 1.3.2.2 The main POV-Ray INI file
- 1.3.3 Starting a Render Job
  - 1.3.3.1 X Window display
  - 1.3.3.2 SVGAlib display
  - 1.3.3.3 Output file formats
- 1.3.4 Interrupting POV-Ray
- 1.3.5 Tutorials
- 1.3.6 Rendering the Sample Scenes
- 1.3.7 POV-Ray for Unix Tips
  - 1.3.7.1 Automated execution
  - 1.3.7.2 Post-processing Images