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{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.

This tag deals with the beamer class, which is used for creating presentations and slides.

For questions about presentations or slides in general, independent of the document class, use .

For more information about beamer, see the project page on github.

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Is there a nice way to compile a beamer presentation without the pauses?

Say I made a beamer presentation and I want to print it out. Is there a nice way to make beamer ignore the pauses so that I don't get lots of pages with duplicate information? Of course there are some things one could do with find & replace, but I…
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Is there a nice solution to get a "presenter mode" for Latex presentations?

I really like the way Keynote and MS Office (and also OpenOffice & similar) support a presentation mode that displays the current slide, the next (and maybe previous) slide, the elapsed and current time, and also any notes attached to the slides on…
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Progress bar for latex-beamer

Instead of slide numbers, I find it very nice to have something like a unobtrusive progressbar at the bottom which grows each slide about (width of screen)/(slide numbers). I've found here (page in German) the following code…
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Positioning logo in the front page as well as slides

Question 1: I am creating a slide template for a presentation in LaTex using Beamer package. I found the placement of logo in the slide is not that easy. Instead of placing the logo in the same position throughout the slides, I want to place the…
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Don't count backup slides

I prepare some backup slides at the end of my presentation. I don't want them to be counted in terms of pages, which is displayed at the footer of each slide. Does anyone know how to do that?
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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 doesn't really offer much in the way of…
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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 user guide says If a frame contains fragile text,…
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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…
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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 like lolcats to keep it a bit humorous. Now I want…
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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 to do this?…
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How to change the color of a block within a custom Beamer .sty theme file?

I'm in the process of creating a custom Beamer theme. I know how to change the color of fonts for certain elements within an itemize or enumerate block, but I can't seem to figure out how to specific the color in a block as depicted below. For…
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beamer: repeat variations of a frame

In latex beamer I want to do the following: repeat a frame (from some slides before) repeat it again, but make some words grey (or better opaqueness 50%) others red repeat it again but without the grey words from the previous slide Is there an…
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Beamer - transition effect

I am looking for a particular transition effect when moving between slides. I would like to have the impression that two slides are superimposed and that the first moves smoothly to the right to reveal progressively the next slide. Any idea?
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In beamer slide, view notes on computer only while presenting with a projector?

Is is possible to make a PDF in Beamer such that notes are visible only on computer and not on the projector?
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Beamer - blank black frame

I'm making a presentation with LaTeX Beamer package. And I want to have a slide where the screen is all black so I can use other media. Is there a way to insert a black slide simply?
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