Questions tagged [beamer]
{beamer} is a document class 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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Adding custom image in title slide
I use beamer with the warsaw style to create presentation. I would like to insert an image in the title slide as part of customization. An image that fills the whole breadth of the slide but limits to ...
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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 create a simple slide with an image on the right and text and the sidebar (using the Hannover theme) on the left. I cannot figure out how to ...
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logo in the first page only
I want to insert the logo in the title page only. However, it displays on all pages!
How can I make these two figurs display as logo in the title page only?
I type in the preamble:
\logo{%
\...
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How to include existing PDF slides into my Beamer presentation?
Is there a way to incorporate some slides into an existing slide into my Beamer presentation?
Say, I want to put slide 2 in file A (a Beamer PDF file) into my Beamer presentation, can this be done?
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How to customize \titlepage in beamer?
I'm trying build my own theme to use for work-related presentations in beamer. I'm not so familiar with how to write the themes, I'm customizing a title page manually at the moment.
What I want to ...
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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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How to split a frame (of beamer) into 2 parts (minipage) side by side?
I would like to split a frame into 2 parts side by side by minipage. But it seems that the following code puts one on top of the other:
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth}
left part
\end{minipage}\...
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Change bullet style / formatting in Beamer
I like the Boadilla layout for Beamer presentations, but I find its enumerate bullet points illegible, as illustrated below (from the Beamer Theme Matrix).
How can I change the formatting of the ...
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Stable vertical alignment of columns in Beamer
In Beamer, I often use a two-column slide layout, picture on the left and text on the right. Sometimes the same picture is used on multiple slides, with the text on the right changing. I use the ...
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How to display the footnote in the bottom of the slide while using \columns?
I am using \columns in beamer to show two pictures. After I added \footnote{ExampleText} after captions, the ExampleTest just appear in each column. Now I want to show all of the ExampleText in the ...
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Beamer frame numbering in appendix
I have a beamer presentation in which I have some additional slides in an appendix. The additional slides are only there in case someone asks a specific question; I won't necessarily have to use any ...
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Conditionally hidden slides in beamer
When creating a presentation, I sometimes create extra slides that contain additional information, a more thorough explanation, or an extra plot pertaining to certain parts of my talk. These extra ...
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Which : \only or \onslide ? (Beamer)
In beamer v3.0 guide (slide 121) , I've found:
In case of subtle differences in the heights of replacements,
overlayarea and overprint environments can be used.
But it's not clear to me.
What ...
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Add space between paragraphs in Beamer
Customizing spacing between paragraphs in Beamer plagues me constantly. To split two paragraphs by one empty line I usually put \medskip tag between paragraphs, but this is very ugly solution.
Now I ...
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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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Beamer block environment without title
Is it possible to create a customised beamer block environment that only has a body and not a title?
For example, I wish to typeset the following quote within a coloured block so that it stands out ...
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LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor
I have an option clash between package xcolor and another package, but I don't know which. Here is my MWE
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage{caption}
\...
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Blocks in Beamer
I want to put boxed text/block in Beamer and my LaTeX source is
\documentclass[pdf]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{Observation 1}
Simmons Hall is composed of metal and concrete.
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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 \item[\Large\...
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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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Can't insert code in my beamer slide
I want to put some PHP code in my slide with the package listings but I have this error message:
Argument of \frame has an extra }.<inserted text>\par }
My latex code :
\documentclass{beamer}...
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Automatically scale big and small graphics for beamer presentations
For the next few semesters I'll be making a lot of beamer presentations with a lot slides that are just a frame title and a figure. I am trying to make a command to make a lot faster to code and ...
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How to number slides with an increasing number of digits of pi?
How to number frames with an increasing number of digits of pi? Illustrative, I want the frame numbers to be like
3 (on the first slide)
3.1 (on the second slide)
3.14 (on the third slide)
... and ...
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How to overlap images in a beamer slide?
I'm creating a beamer presentation. I want to make one frame that has a couple of images overlapped, like a stack of photos. Actually, I want something like this:
.-----.
| AAA |
| AAA |
'-----'
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How to change the color of \href links... for real
I would like web links generated by the \href command to be colored in my Beamer presentation. Passing the colorlinks option to hyperref leads to navigation links within the PDF receiving (default, ...
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Figure next to text in beamer
I can't get my code to do what I want. I'm working in beamer and I want to position my figure on the left side of the frame and the text next to it, but I would like to work with alineas in my text.
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Add notes to latex beamer [duplicate]
I need to add notes for presentation like we add Microsoft PowerPoint 'click to add notes'. Is there some way to do it using latex beamer?
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beamer: Top-aligning columns within a top-aligned frame
According to section 3.10 of the beamer manual, the t option top-aligns either every frame (when used as a class option) or a single frame (when used as optional argument of a frame environment). ...
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A script language for beamer animations?
This is a follow-up question to Clever beamer animation? Writing a script that changes a tikz picture in beamer?
as suggested there, I will put a bounty on this one.
What I seek is a set of macros, ...
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Verbatim in beamer showing error: "File ended while scanning use of \@xverbatim."
I am using Texmaker and MiKTeX on Windows 7. I have the following beamer code,
\documentclass{beamer}
\theme{AnnArbor}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{frame}[<alignment&...
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Why does vfill not work inside a beamer column?
I recently tried to set up a quartered page layout in beamer (separate question might follow) and \vfill failed in a column environment.
Minimal example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\...
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Drawbacks of using fragile frames in beamer
This is a follow up on beamer's fragile frame as default. What are the drawbacks of setting the default frame to be fragile (or passing the optional fragile argument to all frames). The beamer ...
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Explicit frame break with beamer class
I am looking for a way to insert explicit frame breaks. I'd like to use the built-in frame title continuation feature. The only way I have found is to play with different values of the ...
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tikz matrix undefined control sequence
I would like to use tkiz matrix but any compilation within a tikz picture ends with error:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \pgf@matrix@last@nextcell@options
I wonder if there is no ...
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I need a beamer theme simulating blackboard presentation
I always remember the school days, when the teacher used to write on a blackboard. I want to revive the feel of "blackboard" teaching in one of my presentation. But I do not know how to customize the ...
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Miktex and beamer: Error: \beamer@endinputifotherversion
I have downloaded MiKTeX (on Windows 10). The .tex files for papers and posters compile well but beamer does not work.
Here is the header of my .tex file:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
%
\usepackage[...
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How to include multimedia files in beamer
A quick survey of the unanswered beamer questions suggestions that about 20% of them are about problems with including multimedia files, such as videos or sound files. Many of them are about either ...
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Continuing enumerate Counters in Beamer
I'm trying to continue the numbering of examples in enumerate environments in beamer. For example, I'd like one slide to feature
Foo
Bar
and the next slide
Zip
Yadda
My strategy so far has been to ...
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text justify in beamer
I like to justify the texts inside the block using beamer.
I cant do that in presentation. Can any one please help me?
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Trouble combining enumitem and beamer
I have trouble combining two things for a set of slides:
Adjust item separation globally
Use default overlays of lists locally (parameter [<+->])
I use enumitem for 1. but it seems to disturb ...
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Global setting of spacing between items in itemize environment for beamer
I'd like to modify the spacing between items in the itemize environment. This post shows how to modify a specific itemize environment (\addtolength{\itemsep}{0.5\baselineskip}). However, I'd like to ...
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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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Scaling a tikzpicture for a Beamer slide
I have the following Beamer slide:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\tikzstyle{decision} = [diamond, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=4.5em, text badly centered,...
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How to make "outline" frame in Beamer?
In a presentation, people show regularly a "outline" frame containing the table of contents where some sections are grey (have been presented) and others are highlighted (will be presented right now).
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Changing the color of \alert command in Beamer
Is it possible to change the color of \alert command in beamer. See, it is not the alertblock!
For example, I would like to change to color yellow, because the standard color is red, and my background ...
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Remove frame from presentation
Question: how do I remove a frame from my presentation?
I am using the beamer package and I just want to remove 1 frame quickly from my presentation because it is not relevant. Is there a quick way ...
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How to embed Javascript in LaTeX Beamer?
I'm wondering if it is possible to add javascript animations in LaTeX Beamer, e.g. figures created with C3 or D3? As far as I remember the animate packages uses javascript in order to display (and ...
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Beamer navigation circles without subsections?
I have been using the Frankfurt theme in Beamer recently. It includes navigational section titles at the top of the slide and when subsections are included, it adds circles below section titles. Each ...
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How do I add syntax coloring to my C++ source code in beamer
I have just learned how to insert source code into beamer with the listings package.
However I dont know how to go about adding any syntax coloring on the C++ source code.
How do I do that?
Here ...
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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 ...
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