How can I set a time between slides to create an automatic slideshow with beamer?

Question

I switched from PowerPoint to Beamer. I developed my presentation in Beamer and would like to create a slide show that will play my file automatically. Is there a way to set a time between slide as we can do in a PowerPoint slideshow?

Answer 1

You can use the \transduration command for this (page 144 of the manual):

\transduration<⟨overlay specification⟩>{⟨number of seconds⟩} In full screen mode, show the slide for ⟨number of seconds⟩. If zero is specified, the slide is shown as short as possible. This can be used to create interesting pseudo-animations. Example: \transduration<2>{1}

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my first frame
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my second frame
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my third frame
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Answer 2

May be you can try the Impress!ve PDF viewer, which gives numerous functionalities dedicated to presentations (and of course, fine timing of slides).

Note: this is not a "pure" beamer solution since to have the full usage of impressive power you will have to define a script associated with your PDF file. Well, in other words, you can also consider that this is a PDF-origin independent solution.