I am creating a custom beamer theme and I have problems inserting graphics in the headline of the slides.
For the graphics I have exported .eps files to TikZ code with Inkscape, which worked fine.
For each the header of the titlepage and the header for normal pages i have a separate image.
I would like to put them at the top of each slide with no space top, left or right but also no overlap.
Depending on which method I use the resulting images are either too small and not aligned properly or are too big resulting in clipping of the images which I also do not desire.
Can you provide me a solution for my problem?
For a better ilustration I have included a sample code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%graphics
\definecolor{c00519d}{RGB}{0,81,157}
\definecolor{cffffff}{RGB}{255,255,255}
\newcommand{\blankframeheader}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.80pt, yscale=-1.000000, xscale=1.000000, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\begin{scope}[shift={(0,-715.74804)}]
\path[fill=c00519d] (0.0000,741.9754) -- (0.0000,715.7480) --
(230.3150,715.7480) -- (460.6299,715.7480) -- (460.6299,735.7849) --
(460.6299,755.8217) -- (291.4636,755.8727) .. controls (130.5669,755.9207) and
(107.2812,755.9810) .. (103.4114,756.3572) .. controls (102.9047,756.4062) and
(100.5901,756.5116) .. (98.2677,756.5909) .. controls (95.9454,756.6699) and
(93.0089,756.8049) .. (91.7421,756.8902) .. controls (89.2381,757.0589) and
(85.5793,757.2925) .. (81.8386,757.5224) .. controls (71.6262,758.1501) and
(49.2989,760.4954) .. (36.6201,762.2723) .. controls (34.7622,762.5327) and
(32.5166,762.8458) .. (31.6299,762.9681) .. controls (29.0767,763.3203) and
(27.9960,763.4812) .. (26.0256,763.8026) .. controls (25.0122,763.9679) and
(23.4230,764.2128) .. (22.4941,764.3468) .. controls (20.5806,764.6230) and
(13.0199,765.9332) .. (7.2933,766.9811) .. controls (5.1821,767.3674) and
(2.6774,767.8004) .. (1.7274,767.9433) -- (0.0000,768.2030) --
(0.0000,741.9757) -- cycle;
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\newcommand{\titlepageheader}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.80pt, yscale=-1.000000, xscale=1.000000, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\begin{scope}[shift={(0,-715.74804)}]
\path[fill=c00519d] (0.0000,757.5176) -- (0.0000,715.7480) --
(230.3150,715.7480) -- (460.6299,715.7480) -- (460.6299,729.2431) .. controls
(460.6299,741.7994) and (460.5752,742.7374) .. (459.8427,742.7281) .. controls
(459.4097,742.7231) and (454.1973,742.4228) .. (448.2595,742.0619) .. controls
(433.1563,741.1439) and (413.7831,740.7138) .. (387.5319,740.7138) .. controls
(367.4161,740.7138) and (339.3755,741.1990) .. (335.1399,741.6204) .. controls
(334.2665,741.7073) and (330.4142,741.9011) .. (326.5794,742.0510) .. controls
(322.7446,742.2008) and (318.0888,742.4159) .. (316.2332,742.5288) .. controls
(314.3777,742.6417) and (309.3170,742.9446) .. (304.9874,743.2018) .. controls
(300.6577,743.4591) and (293.1680,743.9681) .. (288.3435,744.3329) .. controls
(187.7250,751.9426) and (95.0905,769.1877) .. (9.7839,796.1902) --
(0.0000,799.2871) -- cycle;
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{\resizebox{\paperwidth}{!}{\blankframeheader}}
\setbeamertemplate{title page}{
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(-32,40){ % This line is fiddeling with coordinates. I would like to define that the
% picture is put in the top left corner, the width set to the width of the
% slide and y is scaled accordingly.
% I want to avoid any white space or oversize of the images.
\resizebox{\paperwidth}{!}{\titlepageheader}
}
\put(0,-50){%
\begin{minipage}[b][22mm][t]{95mm}
\begin{flushleft}
\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par%
\ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty%
\else%
\vskip0.25em%
{\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par}%
\fi%
\vskip1em\par
\usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor\par
\usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute\par
\usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate
\end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}
}
\end{picture}
}
\title{A beamer Title}
\subtitle{A beamer Subtitle}
\author{Author Name}
\institute{Institution}
\date{date}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain] % I have used [plain] to remove the headline from the titlepage
% However i would prefer to do this in the \setbeamertemplate definition
% rather than manually in the document
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
*
\end{frame}
\end{document}
