So! Like many people here, I'm trying to customise a beamer template to look like the .ppt template my university uses. For the regular slides, I'd like them to look like this:
I'm getting pretty close! I have found a tutorial on how to make your own templates and have built my own .sty file. This is the way my slides look now:
The only thing missing is the bar of colours. I have defined the colourcodes and so on and have created something that looks a lot like that bar, using the following code:
% Defining the different colours:
\definecolor{ULB}{RGB}{0,76,147}
\definecolor{ULBpoly}{RGB}{26,23,27}
\definecolor{ULBdroit}{RGB}{226,0,122}
\definecolor{ULBarch}{RGB}{144,190,69}
\definecolor{ULBsopo}{RGB}{0,143,194}
\definecolor{ULBphilo}{RGB}{133,135,140}
\definecolor{ULBmed}{RGB}{227,33,25}
\definecolor{ULBpsy}{RGB}{0,107,179}
\definecolor{ULBsci}{RGB}{108,80,152}
\definecolor{ULBsolvay}{RGB}{246,169,36}
\definecolor{ULBeurope}{RGB}{0,80,154}
\definecolor{ULBpharm}{RGB}{0,135,81}
% Adding them all together
\colorbox{ULB}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBpoly}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBdroit}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBarch}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBsopo}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBphilo}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBmed}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBpsy}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBsci}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBsolvay}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBeurope}{} \\
\vspace{-7.5pt}\colorbox{ULBpharm}{} \\
If I put this into a different .tex file to test it out, it delivers something looking like this:
My question is twofold: 1) How do I get the coloured bar where I want it to be? I've added the University logo in the sidebar, and defined a background image for the University seal. I am a novice in template design, so I'm probably not using the most elegant methods.
2) How do I make LaTeX forget everything when I customise the titleframe, which looks totally different.
The MWE of the .sty file:
mode<presentation>
\usepackage{pgfcomp-version-0-65}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{ULB}{RGB}{0,76,147}
\definecolor{ULBpoly}{RGB}{26,23,27}
\definecolor{ULBdroit}{RGB}{226,0,122}
\definecolor{ULBarch}{RGB}{144,190,69}
\definecolor{ULBsopo}{RGB}{0,143,194}
\definecolor{ULBphilo}{RGB}{133,135,140}
\definecolor{ULBmed}{RGB}{227,33,25}
\definecolor{ULBpsy}{RGB}{0,107,179}
\definecolor{ULBsci}{RGB}{108,80,152}
\definecolor{ULBsolvay}{RGB}{246,169,36}
\definecolor{ULBeurope}{RGB}{0,80,154}
\definecolor{ULBpharm}{RGB}{0,135,81}
\setbeamertemplate{sidebar canvas left}{
{\includegraphics[width=1cm,height=5cm]{example-image-16x9.jpg}}
}
\usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[height=9.5cm,trim=-55cm 0 0 -37cm]{example-image-1x1.jpg}\vspace{2cm}}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vspace*{2.5mm}\hspace*{1.5mm}\insertframetitle}
\mode
<all>
MWE for the presentation:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{MWE}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{Introduction}
\begin{itemize}
\item this is point 1
\item this is point 2
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I realise there are lots of "customise beamer" posts out there, but none seemed to help me with my specific problem.
mwe
package or you can specify height/width and passdemo
tographicx
so people don't need your logos etc. You are more likely to get help if you do this. Right now, it would be an awful lot of work to try to help (and probably not very effective either).background
for your slides.\begin{frame}[plain]
will construct a slide without headlines or footlines.textpos
package.