Multiple pictures in a slide with lines to a specific place

Question

I want to create the following image from a PowerPoint presentation into a beamer slide

My problem is that I want every box to be linked with a line to the central text on a specific point and that is what I don't know how to do. Is there an environment or a way to do it somehow easily?

Welcome! Have you tried the tikzmark library of TikZ? For instane here you can see how it's used, but there are many more questionss using it. — Tom Bombadil, Dec 11 '15 at 19:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '15 at 20:11

A simple way is draw picture:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{chains,positioning}

\newcommand{\firmlist}{\setlength\itemsep{0pt}}
    \begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Title}
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[
         shorten < = 1mm,
     node distance = 3mm and 0mm, %on grid,
      start chain = 1 going below,
      start chain = 2 going right,
 box/.style = {draw=blue!60!black, fill=blue!40, inner sep=1mm,
               text width=37mm, align=left, on chain=1},
type/.style = {font=\bfseries\large,
               text depth=0.5ex, text height=2ex,
               inner xsep=0mm, inner ysep=0.5mm, outer sep=0mm, on chain=2},
                        ]
\node (A) [box] {Arrival proces
            \begin{itemize}\firmlist
            \item M: Markovian
            \item D: Determistic
            \item Er: Erlang
            \item G: General
            \end{itemize}};
\node (B) [box] {Number of servers\\  $m=1,2,\dots$};
\node (C) [box] {Storage capacity\\ $>K=1,2,\dots$\\(at $K=\infty$ is omitted)};
%
\begin{scope}[every node/.style={type}]
\node (T1) [above right=0mm and 3mm of B]   {A};
\node (T2) {/};
\node (T3) {B};
\node (T4) {m};
\node (T5) {K};
\node (T6) {/};
\node (T7) {N};
\end{scope}
\node (D) [box, below right= 3mm of A.north -| T7.east]
            {Arrival proces
            \begin{itemize}\firmlist
            \item M: Markovian
            \item D: Determistic
            \item Er: Erlang
            \item G: General
            \end{itemize}};
\node (E) [box] {Number of custumers\\ $N=1,2,\dots$\\
                (for closed networks, otherwise is omitted)};
%
\draw (A) -| (T1);
\draw (B) -| (T3);
\draw (C) -| (T5);
\draw (D) -| (T3);
\draw (E) -| (T7);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{frame}
    \end{document}

Thank you so so so very much!! :) You tought me how to do something I had never done before and I am sure I will use this code for many more slides I have to create! Thanks again for taking the time! :) — Maggie, Dec 11 '15 at 20:33
@user2372494, I'm glad to help you! Since you accept answer, you can up-vote it too :-). Happy TeXing! — Zarko, Dec 11 '15 at 20:36
I am upvoting it so hard but I doesn't work with no reputation! Once I have 15 I'll upvote it for sure! :) — Maggie, Dec 11 '15 at 20:44

Multiple pictures in a slide with lines to a specific place

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