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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 like lolcats to keep it a bit humorous.
Now I want these slides to be a surprise, so they should not be visible on the handout. How can I prevent these slides to be included on my \documentclass[handout]{beamer} version?
You can add <handout:0> to the frame you want to hide, e.g.,
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Hello.
\end{frame}
% this frame won't be included in the handout mode
\begin{frame}<handout:0>
I am a lolcat!
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Update: As Andrew suggested in the comment, you can use beamer:0 as well to hide it from the presentation. :) Besides, I agree with Andrew, please try to avoid lolcats at all costs, specially for academic purposes.
Too risky.
beamer:0 as well then they won't be in the presentation either (The advice of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Seminar Audiences is that lolcats should definitely not appear in presentations.)
Nov 16, 2011 at 9:59
trans. This would be useful if, for instance, you wanted to create a limited set of slides for, say, promotional purposes. Use of trans here frees up handout to be used for its intended purpose.
To add to the suggestions above, to disable the frame in both handout and beamer modes, one must add
<handout:0|beamer:0>
