Problem of \includegraphics with Beamer

Question

The following commands

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Test}
\centering
\includegraphics{xxx.pdf}   
\end{frame}
\end{document}

yields a result

by using pdflatex, which is not what I expect.

Basically, 'xxx.pdf' contains white background, and it looks fine (correctly displaying white background) with \documentclass{article}.

Is it possible to include xxx.pdf in this document without any changes on xxx.pdf?

Any comments and suggestions are very welcome. Thank you.

Updated: xxx.pdf can be downloaded here

Can you please upload a copy of xxx.pdf somewhere so we can try ourselves? — Henri Menke, May 01 '17 at 20:51
@Henri Menke Please follow the provide link above. Thank you — P. Kein, May 01 '17 at 21:19
@Symbol 1 Thank you for the link, it is solved by \textcolor{white}{\includegraphics{xxx.pdf}} — P. Kein, May 01 '17 at 21:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '17 at 12:31

The "problem" is, that your image has a transparent background. Principally this is easy to remove with imagemagick:

 convert xxx.pdf xxxx.pdf

However as metropolis uses a very light background colour, this would look rather ugly, look at the slight boarder between the image and the background:

So I would use the background colour of the surrounding page:

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}

\definecolor{myback}{RGB}{250, 250, 250}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Test}
\centering
{\color{myback}\includegraphics{xxx.pdf}}   
\end{frame}
\end{document}

The whole point of having transparent background for figures is the ability to easily include it in documents that a have a coloured background. — Peutch, Apr 30 '18 at 10:25

Problem of \includegraphics with Beamer

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