{beamer} is a document class, used for creating presentations and slides. For general questions about presentations or slides, independent of the document class, use {presentations} tag instead.
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Progress bar for latex-beamer
Instead of slide numbers, I find it very nice to have something like a unobtrusive progressbar at the bottom which grows each slide about (width of screen)/(slide numbers).
I've found here (page in ...
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Advantage of LaTeX presentations?
I've read that LaTeX can be used also for presentation, and that there are tools to make PDF presentations.
But I'm wondering: since LaTeX is a typographic language made to separate content from ...
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How to get rid of navigation symbols in beamer?
When creating presentations in beamer, those little symbols that you can click on and will take you to different parts of your presentation are automatically included on your slides.
I don't like ...
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How to scale a tikzpicture including texts?
It seems that the scale option scales only the length of lines, but not the size of texts. For instance, 1 and true and not scaled in the following code.
\begin{tikzpicture}[thick, scale=0.6]
\draw ...
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Embedding videos and animations
I'm aware that it's possible to embed some kinds of videos and animations in LaTeX files (using the beamer or prosper classes) but I couldn't locate good documentation on this. My web searches ...
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Where to find custom beamer themes
I don't like default beamer themes very much.
Where could I find some custom beamer themes?
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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
Most of the time when presenting a talk people connect their laptop to a video projector. So they effectively have an extra screen at their disposal. Because of that many Software options for ...
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Avoiding jumping frames in beamer
Sometimes I want an element on a frame to change in steps.
I do this by
\only<2>{
...
}
\only<3>{
...
}
etc.
But this causes the frame to jump due to different sizes of the ...
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Something between \frownie and \smiley
Inside a beamer presentation, I would like to compare and contrast several alternatives. For each, I would like to highlight the "pros" (with a \item[\Large\smiley]), the "cons" (with a ...
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Nice custom beamer theme: how to do something like it?
So I found this totally awesome looking presentation that's made in LaTeX: pyprop.googlecode.com/files/disputas.pdf
I love how there is custom header with university logo. I'd like to do something ...
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Beautiful presentations done with TeX and related systems
I recently had to persuade a fellow student that you can create beautiful presentations with LaTeX and beamer. Luckily, I already had some examples. But I'm sure that there are better presentations, ...
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How to make beamer overlays with Tikz node
I have a diagram of 4 nodes in my beamer slide.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{centering}
\begin{tikzpicture}[system/.style={draw,rectangle,rounded corners=3,minimum width=2cm,text width=1.8cm,text ...
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Is there a nice way to compile a beamer presentation without the pauses?
Say I made a beamer presentation and I want to print it out. Is there a nice way to make beamer ignore the pauses so that I don't get lots of pages with duplicate information?
Of course there are ...
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LaTeX beamer presentation-package 16:9 aspect ratio?
I'm programming a presentation in LaTeX using the beamer class.
However, it defaults to 4:3 aspect ratio slides, while everything I use is 16:9. Is there an easy way to change this using a command or ...
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Image on full slide in beamer package
I would like to make a slide of only one image without any borders or any other beamer specific element.
I tried :
\begin{frame}[plain]
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Animation in PDF presentations, without Adobe Reader?
I sometimes have to present on other people's equipment, such as machines running stripped down Linux distributions, presentation servers with a bare-bones PDF viewer running in a virtual machine, or ...
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Bifurcating a PDF: choosing a “Plan B” during a talk
I think this is a greenhorn's question, but anyway. It is sometimes difficult to measure time for a talk, according to unknown places and audiences.By this and other reasons I'd like to subtly launch ...
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How does beamer build the frame?
I've started to write my own theme for beamer. I'm bored of the default ones and I thought it might be a nice challenge to make something that looks good. The problem is that the beamer documentation ...
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Which package to use for presentations ? Beamer, Prosper, or Other
I have to prepare my slides in latex. A quick search came up with different packages. Before start preparing, I need your experiences. I do not want to regret after learning one as I did, learning vim ...
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Typing and editing Beamer presentations
The ratio of markup to content in a beamer presentation is fairly high relative to a standard LaTeX document. What strategies do you use for speeding up the task of typing and editing beamer ...
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Bad positioning of math accents for the beamer standard font
With a recent TeX distribution, the easy answer to this question is "load the sansmathaccent package" (which is Ariel's implementation of my answer). Actually, the corrected font should be loaded ...
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Mouseover events in beamer: hovering on \eqref and a comment containing the original equation popping up
This idea came into my mind while I was listening to a speaker presenting his results in a seminar, he used lots of equation references in his later slides, however I can't remember which equation he ...
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How can I fix jumping TikZ pictures in beamer?
The problem of stuff jumping in beamer is a common one, (see e.g. Avoiding jumping frames in beamer) and we've seen it here from time to time (I imagine the "related" list at the side will be quite ...
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Positioning logo in the front page as well as slides
Question 1:
I am creating a slide template for a presentation in LaTex using Beamer package. I found the placement of logo in the slide is not that easy. Instead of placing the logo in the same ...
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Converting beamer slides to animated images
As a follow up to Highlighting specific parts of a TikZ drawing, I'd like to know how to generate an animated image (gif) from a series of beamer slides.
Martin Scharrer came up with this example:
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beamer: Create own headline theme
I'd like to create a custom LaTeX beamer theme like the one in the snapshot below which I took from a presentation whose source code I do not have. Nevertheless, I'd like to reproduce these results on ...
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Positioning content at the top of a beamer slide (by default)
When I create beamer frame, the content is centred in the slide. How do I make the content move to the top of the slide by default?
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Can I have framed blocks in beamer?
Is there a simple way to have the body of a block environment in beamer to have a frame around it, rather than having a background colour? I tried putting a \fbox inside the block, but it just wrote ...
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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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Speed up beamer compile time
Is there a way to speed up the compile time? I have a, I would say, medium-sized presentation and it takes 10+ seconds to compile. It isn't too much, but it's annoying. Especially since I'm performing ...
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Is there a way to add a timer to a Beamer presentation?
I have seen presentations in Power Point which contain a timer. Can this be done in Beamer using a simple command, or maybe a package? If not a timer, is it possible to at least get a clock on your ...
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How to exclude certain slides from handout
I have a made a quite standard beamer (3.12) presentation. To make my long academic presentation a bit more interesting I have inserted some (really, only two or three) slides with "random" pictures ...
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Beamer: Uncover underbrace
I've got an underbrace (\underbrace{foo}_{bar}) which I want to uncover (i.e. foo should be there from the beginning, while the underbrace and the bar should be uncovered on the next slide. I've tried ...
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Escaping square braces
I want to use some text as the optional parameter to some command. The text includes square braces ([ and ]), but since the optional parameter goes within square brackets, unexpected things happen.
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Are there any repositories of “killer slides” for Beamer?
I used to work as a consultant and have been spoiled with nice looking slides. For instance, being able to create slides that have 2, 3, or 4 graphs (perfectly positioned and with nice headers!) at ...
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Repeated slides in beamer
I have about 200 JPEG files that I need to include in a PDF document, one JPEG per page (i.e. 200 pages + intro slide). The following code successfully does this with one JPEG.
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Explanatory bubbles in beamer
In the MWE below I want to place an "explanatory bubble" (see picture inserted below) pointing to the word "Integer" in the 8th line (the bubble should superimpose the text, a transparency effect such ...
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Hyperref warning - Token not allowed in a PDF string
When compiling a beamer presentation and using the following \author command
\author{Name \\ \texttt{my.email@domain.com}}
I get the following hyperref warning in my logfile
Package hyperref ...
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How to remove the warnings “Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available” and “Size substitutions with differences” in beamer?
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
LaTeX Font Warning: Size substitutions with differences
I am using the files from ...
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Strange disappearing colored rules in beamer
I have received a booktabs bug report of \cmidrules that disappear when coloured rules are used inside beamer (together with colortbl). The problem can be illustrated with the following simple code ...
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Beamer reflections with pgf/tikz
I want some nice reflections in my slides. Something like the ones seen in Jobs Keynotes.
Suppose you have multiple elements in the tikz picture and you want to reflect the whole thing with fading.
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How to create a PDF presentation for each available Beamer theme automatically?
Rather than changing the theme by hand and compiling it for each available theme, is there an easier way to do so such that I can get a PDF presentation for each available theme automatically?
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Unknown error using tikz matrix of nodes in beamer
I am having trouble getting a basic example of a matrix of notes to show up in my beamer presentation. I am using the code copied from the pgf manual. Here is a complete working example. The error I ...
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Can one replace bullet points with graphics?
Is it possible to replace bullet points in an itemize environment with graphics? I can find answers about replacing bullet points with other symbols, but in all the examples I can find, these symbols ...
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Beamer text and image on the same slide
I am new to beamer and LaTex itself. Right now I want to make a simple slide with image on the right and text and sidebar (of Hannover theme) on the left. I cannot figure out how to do that.
Any ...
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Entire course with beamer
What, if any, support does beamer provide for making presentations that span more than one meeting. A case in point is a university course with 30 or so lecture hours, each with 20 or so frames, for a ...
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How to modify columns/column environments so they resize automatically to the largest column ?
This question was originally a duplicate of How can I add vertical space to a beamercolorbox to make it align with another one?. The response to that question was to add a vertical space according to ...
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In beamer slide, view notes on computer only while presenting with a projector?
Is is possible to make a PDF in Beamer such that notes are visible only on computer and not on the projector?
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Beamer Animations: How to simulate terminal input and output
I'm preparing some Unix training material and I'd like to show some vertically scrolling text of the commands as if simulating text entry in a terminal. My idea was to split the frame into 2 columns, ...
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How to remove some pages from the navigation bullets in Beamer?
I'm making a beamer presentation using the miniframes outer theme, with navigation bullets, and the subsection=false option, meaning the bullets are all on a single row. The problem I have is that, if ...
