How do I write something at the end of the slide in beamer?

Question

I have an image, I want to write its source in a very small font size on the last possible line of the slide, ignoring the available space after image

\section{SCS}
\subsection{SCS}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Simple Client-Server}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.3]{scs}
  \end{center}
  source of image :write this text at the bottom of the slide (not footnote)
\end{frame}

score 41 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '12 at 13:20

41

The following solution works works without employing a minipage:

\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer

\newcommand{\btVFill}{\vskip0pt plus 1filll}

\begin{document}
\section{SCS}
\subsection{SCS}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Simple Client-Server}
  \bigskip
  \rule{150pt}{100pt}%\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{scs}
  \btVFill

  source of image :write this text at the bottom of the slide (not footnote)
\end{frame}
\end{document}

enter image description here

You can also equally distribute the available space by employing the \btVFill command multiple times; the bottom line can be lifted a bit by adding some vertical space (such as \smallskip) after it:

\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer

\newcommand{\btVFill}{\vskip0pt plus 1filll}

\begin{document}
\section{SCS}
\subsection{SCS}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Simple Client-Server}
  \bigskip
  \rule{150pt}{100pt}%\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{scs}
  \btVFill
  a comment in the middle
  \btVFill

  source of image :write this text at the bottom of the slide (not footnote)
  \smallskip
\end{frame}
\end{document}

enter image description here

answered May 03 '12 at 13:20

Daniel

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Can you explain the btVFill command? – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Oct 04 '13 at 13:14
5

@ManuelKuehner: \vskip0pt plus 1filll is TeX syntax to insert a stretchable vertical skip with a minimum of 0pt, but stretchable to "infinite value". So TeX will stretch the vertical skip as much as possible (depending on the following content), which here gives the intended result to skip to the bottom of the slide. The details of stretchable skips are pretty well explained in this answer from JLDiaz. – Daniel Oct 06 '13 at 21:43
1

This works great to produce a footer text! However, it appears first when all \pause statements in the frame have been processed, so only at the last slide of the frame. How do I make this text visible on all slides of the frame? – StrawberryFieldsForever Oct 22 '17 at 21:02
@StrawberryFieldsForever This is difficult using just \pause. In that case you should use \onslide<1->{bottom text} and replace all \pause commands with the correct \onslide commands. – hife Mar 08 '22 at 10:01

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

This is a common problem in beamer, with the typical solution being given by a fixed-height minipage:

enter image description here

\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer
\begin{document}
\section{SCS}
\subsection{SCS}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Simple Client-Server}
  \begin{minipage}[t][.8\textheight]{\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
      \rule{150pt}{100pt}%\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{scs}
    \end{center}
\vfill

source of image :write this text at the bottom of the slide (not footnote)

\end{minipage}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

In the above MWE, the frame body is set in a box (or minipage) of (seemingly arbitrary) height equivalent to .8\textheight. This fixed height allows the use of \vfill to push content to the bottom.

How do I write something at the end of the slide in beamer?

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