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How to add thumbnail photo to frametitles in beamer
Is there a beamer theme that allows one to add small thumbnails of authors to the right end of the frame title line?
Ideally I'd like something that can easily work on successive pages throughout a ...
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change position of figure in beamer
I need to put a figure in a specific position in a beamer presentation ... Does it have a solution using X and Y coordinate or another thing? What do I need to change in the following code?
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Beamer - Textblock and Show notes on second screen
my question might seem to have been already asked in Absolute positioning in beamer when using `show notes on second screen`: text on wrong page or in Title picture misplaced in Beamer when using ...
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Adding a “take away” box to a beamer slide
In Powerpoint presentations (especially with slides produced by consultants), it's common to add a box at the bottom of a slide that indicates the main point.
What would be some LaTeX code for adding ...
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Novice's question: I don't want other objects' locations to move when I add a circle
TikZ novice, here. I want to create two slides (in Beamer), identical except for the addition of a circle in the second slide. I don't want the addition of the circle to shift about the placement of ...
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Beamer with Powerpoint title page in LyX
I want to use beamer (Madrid style) for a presentation I'm giving next week, but I am forced to use the institutional title page.
That means that the whole background is filled by an image and the ...
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Beamer image positioning
I am trying to place two images side-by-side in a beamer document. However, when I compile the document, the image in the right column is forced too low on the page. I am using the [htp] options but ...
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TikZ node positioning in Beamer ignores x coordinate
I have the following frame in beamer:
\begin{frame}{Language}
\begin{block}{}
\begin{align*}
\onslide<1->{
&\text{Types} & T &::= B | T \to T \\
}
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Placing text at random positions on the screen in beamer
I am creating a presentation and for the Q&A session slide, I want to show question marks (?) in various colors and sizes in random locations on the screen.
Is this possible in beamer?
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Anchors badly positioned
I am trying to overlay some transparent boxes over a picture using TikZ within a Beamer frame. The code I use is the following:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
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TikZ: node at \item to use in [overlay]
In my beamer presentation I would like to reference an item by pointing an arrow on it's number. However, I don't know how to make \item a TikZ node. Otherwise it works well.
\documentclass{beamer}
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Overlapping Sidebar in Beamer Template
I'm trying to position two logos (one logo and the titlegraphics) and a overlapping sidebar (graphical element)
I used negative \vskip \hskip for the top left logo and \vspace for the vertical ...
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Title picture misplaced in Beamer when using 'show notes on second screen' and absolute 'pgf' positioning
When I try to do something like the following, everything works fine and dandy; The title graphic (here represented by the LaTeX logo with the reddish background) is shown just fine.
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Easy absolute positioning in beamer
For my presentaton slides I'd like to have list uncovered and highlighted by time and each item supported by appropriate image/graph/table.
Thinking about it in wider application, I'd like to ...
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Move everything a little bit left in beamer
I am putting an image in each column on a slide, everything is perfect except that because the first image starts too far right and it pushes a small part of the second image off the slide. How can I ...
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Two column layout with text and knitr chunk
When making presentations (with latex beamer class), I often go for a frame layout with text and equations on the left and a corresponding figure on the right. My standard solution has been to wrap ...
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Cleaning up figure placement in Beamer/minipage
I've placed three figures on the same page through the minipage option. However, it looks quite ugly right now.
My latex (beamer) code for this page looks like:
\frame{
\frametitle{Various initial ...
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How to position a beamer box in a slide?
How can I position a beamercolorbox in arbitrary position in a slide?
I want to be able to give coordinates, and that is where the box will be positioned.
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In beamer, problem positioning images (logo and background) and text in a robust way when creating my own template (title frame and following frames)
I have now been struggling for a few days on what I thought should be fairly easy. I am trying to create a template resembling my university's powerpoint template.
Title page: I am trying to import ...
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How can I get textpos to respect beamer overlays?
I'm using textpos to position text blocks in a beamer frame. However, the textblock environment does not seem to respect overlay commands. In the following example, I want "some more text" to be ...
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Zooming images out to specific locations in beamer
I want to:
Show an image full width
On click, make a small sized image placed at a particular location starting from top left and show another image full width
Repeat the process till all four ...
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Centering an equation vertically
I would like to put an equation at the center of a page in beamer (viewing the page from top to bottom rather than left to right - I already know how to center an equation going from left to right). I ...
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Position an exampleblock in front of content
I need to position an example block:
\begin{exampleblock}{}
Proposed and implemented
\end{exampleblock}
Without disturbing other frame content. Something like:
--------------------
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Keep position of graphic in beamer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Avoiding jumping frames in beamer
how can I set a figure or a graphic to keep it's position across multiple slides in a presentation?
I'm using the \only command to ...
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centering block body with respect to block title in beamer
I'm trying to write a poster using beamerposter package. I would want to structure it using 3/4 columns, and each column should have a certain number of blocks.
I would want to define my own theme ...
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prevent logo from title page in beamer class
I'm having problems with inserting a logo on my presentation in the beamer class.
\logo{\includegraphics[scale=0.05]{logo.png}}
This is how I inserted the logo, which works perfectly; it is placed ...
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Changing figure position in a two-column presentation slide
I am trying to make a presentation with the beamer package. One of the slides requires me to have an image change with every new line of text I open.
I do this by splitting the slide in columns with ...
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How to move dark rectangle in headline of PaloAlto theme after changing the sidebar width?
I'm currently using the beamer PaloAlto theme with a headline and sidebar on each slide. I used the command \setbeamersize{sidebar width left=1.7cm} to fit the table of contents in the sidebar. The ...
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How do I write something at the end of the slide in beamer? [duplicate]
I have an image, I want to write its source in a very small font size on the last possible line of the slide, ignoring the available space after image
\section{SCS}
\subsection{SCS}
\begin{frame}
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Two minipages with 0.5\textwidth each get placed one below another
This happens in the beamer class only. Does anyone know the reason behind this? I fix it by just setting both widths to 0.49\textwidth and this works but I'm still curious why this happens and if I ...
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How to align two images side by side and to scale them automatically to use whole slide?
I have two images. How do I align them side by side and scale them so that both of them together occupy the whole horizontal space in a beamer presentation?
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Inconsistency}
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Hyperlink button in the same slide that consists of “\includepdf”
I am making slide using beamer.
I'd like to use hyperlink button at the end of the table from another PDF file named table4.
I am trying the following, but "main" button shows up different slide.
Is ...
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Modify the contents in a single slide in beamer class [closed]
I have an outline frame with a sidebar (which is a background canvas). Only for this slide I want to move the contents to right side.
For example the current Outline page is as follows:
- Section ...
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Undesired Placement of Footnotes in Blocks
Depending on the theme of a beamer-document, footnotes will either be placed inside or outside of a block-environment. It would like to do combine a style, which places the footnotes inside a ...
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tikz and beamer overlays. How to avoid repositioning of images?
I want to slowly uncover nodes in a tree. however when I use overlays the resulting image will jump around in the slides. how do I get rid of that?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Recommended way to control layout within a beamer block?
I've used LaTeX a fair amount to write papers, but I'm just getting into beamer (or more specifically, beamerposter).
In some of my poster's blocks, I want to achieve the effect of down one side of ...
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Custom slide titles in beamer
My slides have a particular PDF background and I would like to force slide-titles to appear in a particular place on each slide without a blue box underneath them. I want the \frametitle{} command to ...
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How to add text to the corner of a Beamer slide? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Absolute positioning in beamer
Put variable text at a fixed location on every beamer slide.
How can I position an image in an arbitrary position in beamer?
I would ...
3
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1answer
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Column background image
I have a two column frame (via wiki2beamer):
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Background Test}
\begin{columns}
\column{0.3\textwidth}
\begin{itemize}
...
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1answer
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Positioning TikZ pictures in beamer slide
I am trying to position a TikZ picture on a beamer slide but some nodes (well, not all?) get pushed to the right.
I have tried to add % wherever it seemed fitting as mentioned in Tikz figure in ...
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Side-to-side figure and table in beamer problem
\begin{figure}
%\centering
\begin{minipage}[h]{0.58\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.4,trim=12mm 15mm 12mm 15mm]{fig1}
\end{minipage}
...
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Fix position of picture over different slides
I have a few very simple beamer slides, which are built up this way:
A short introducory text
A picture, which is almost the same in
all slides
Unfortunately, the introducory text is ...
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Textpos not showing anything
I'm trying to create a business card in LaTeX. Accordingly, I want to use textpos to absolutely position the various elements.
For some reason, textpos is just not showing anything. What I want is ...
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How can I position an image in an arbitrary position in beamer?
I am making a presentation using beamer, and I want to be able to position a certain image the way I want in a frame. I am not sure how to do that.
Is there some way you can specify coordinates in the ...
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How to set up a quartered layout in beamer
Back in Powerpoint days, I encountered a typical quartered layout, which was just tiling the body of the slide horizontally and vertically into equally sized pieces with arbitrary content:
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Put variable text at a fixed location on every beamer slide.
Is there an option that I can use within \begin{frame}... \end{frame} so that the enclosed text always appears at same location on different beamer slides?
Ideally, I want something like this:
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Grid to facilitate positioning of objects with \put in beamer
In presentations with the beamerpackage I use \put a lot to place graphic objects like this:
\newcommand{\putat}[3]{\begin{picture}(0,0)(0,0)\put(#1,#2){#3}\end{picture}} % just a shorthand
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Create layout avoiding overlapping floating wrapfigures
I'm writing companion notes for some beamer presentations. For each slide in a presentation, the document has a small picture of the slide, along with a text explaining the slide. For some slides, the ...
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Add a textbox overtop an image in a beamer slide
I have a slide with a figure in it. I want show a vertically and horizontally centered (relative to the image if possible) text box overtop of it as an overlay which will contain a few lines of text.
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Absolute positioning in beamer
It's easy to absolute position something using remember picture with TikZ, but it only works with pdfLaTeX.
I can get something working by using negative vskip and hskips (trial and error), but that ...
