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A beamer presentation template

I publish the template which I used for the presentation of my Thesis, it could still be useful for write any types of presentation. Latex and Beamer gave me the faculty to focus my main attention on contents, avoiding the definition of color scheme and style. Beside the PDF output works in each PC and projector.

How many times have you seen some presentations with errors in pagination of contents and with wrong colors for text and background? Sometimes it happens because changes the final version of the program for the presentation or the author didn't test his work on the projector.

You can avoid these problems using Beamer, a LaTeX class for creating slides for presentations. In a few words these are some features[fn]Reference token by L’arte di fare una presentazione con beamer, written by Lorenzo Pantieri in collaboration with Tommaso Gordini. The author wrote other useful guides for LaTeX, click here to find them.[/fn]:

  • easy management of transition effects;
  • sectioning of your contents like a LaTeX document standard;
  • possibility to use other LaTeX packages (for example you can embed 3D object as I explained in this article);
  • wide choice of themes and color scheme (as documented in the following gallery);
  • in every slides you can navigate the own presentation and the buttons are not invasive;
  • on the background you can put a TOC of your exposition, where corresponding item changes the color when it is activated;

The template

It follows my simple TeX template with some comment of explaination. You can print the slides (4 slide for page) commenting the first row and removing the comment in the second one.

Here is the zip file: Presentation_Template_TeX.zip. While at this link you can see my original and full presentation.

\documentclass[11pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer} % presentation output
% \documentclass[11pt,xcolor={dvipsnames},handout]{beamer} % Beamer printout
% xcolor allows to use many new colors with \usecolortheme

\mode{
 \usetheme{Warsaw} 
% Here is a gallery with other themes:
% http://deic.uab.es/~iblanes/beamer_gallery/
 \usecolortheme[named=OliveGreen]{structure}
% Others: OliveGreen, Brown, Sepia, RawSienna, 
 \useoutertheme{shadow}
 \setbeamercovered{transparent}
 \setbeamercolor{block title example}{fg=white,bg=Blue}
 \setbeamercolor{block body example}{fg=black,bg=Blue!10}
 \setbeamercolor{postit}{fg=black,bg=OliveGreen!20}
 \setbeamercolor{postit2}{fg=yellow,bg=OliveGreen}
% \setbeamercolor{NEW_STYLE_NAME}{fg=COLOR_FOREGROUNG,bg=COLOR_BACKGROUNG}
}

%% Setting for Beamer printout
% reference: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/5893/beamer-printout
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\mode{
 \usetheme{default}
 \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=Black!5}
 \pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[a4paper,portrait,border shrink=2.5mm]
 % 4 slide in one page
}
%% Setting for Beamer printout

\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphics}
\graphicspath{{images/}}
% all the graphics files will go in the subdirectory images
\usepackage{numprint}
% with this one \np{1000} becomes 1 000
\usepackage{mathcomp}
\usepackage{gensymb}
% with this one \numprint[\textcelsius]{20} becomes 20°C 
\newcommand{\ud}{\mathop{}\ \mathrm{d}}
% with this one \ud{x} becomes dx 
\usepackage{mathtools}
\DeclarePairedDelimiter{\abs}{\lvert}{\rvert}
% to define absolute value (mathtools is required)

\hypersetup{
 pdftitle={TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION},
 pdfsubject={UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT},
 pdfauthor={NAME SURNAME},
 pdfkeywords={KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, etc.},
 pdfpagemode=FullScreen, % once opened it goes in fullscreen modality
 %citecolor=black,
 %filecolor=black,
 %linkcolor=black,
 %urlcolor=black
}

\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1mm}
\setlength{\TPVertModule}{1mm}

%%%% A NEW COMMAND TO FIX LOGO POSITION (x,y) in mm
\newcommand{\MyLogo}{%
\begin{textblock}{14}(2.0,0.1)
% \pgfuseimage{logo}
 \includegraphics[height=1.15cm, angle=0]{logo}
\end{textblock}
}
%%%% A NEW COMMAND TO FIX LOGO POSITION (x,y) in mm

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\title[SHORT TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION]{COMPLETE TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION}
\author[NAME SURNAME]
{NAME SURNAME}
\institute[INSTITUTE NAME]
{
 COMPLETE NAME OF THE INSTITUTE\\
 OTHER INFORMATION \\
 DEPARTMENT NAME \\[0.5cm]
 SUPERVISOR\\ Prof. Eng. \textbf{NAME SURNAME}\\[0.25cm]
 CORRELATOR\\ Eng. \textbf{NAME SURNAME}\\
 }
\date{December 2, 2012}

%\logo{\includegraphics[height=1.5cm, angle=0]{logo}}
% To have a logo on each page... BAD RESULT!!

%\titlegraphic{\includegraphics[height=1.4cm, angle=0]{logo}}
% To have an imagie on title page

%%%% TO HAVE A TOC ON EVERY SLIDE
%\AtBeginSubsection[]
%{
% \begin{frame}{Sommario}
% \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
% \tableofcontents[currentsection]
% \tableofcontents
% \end{frame}
%}
%%%% TO HAVE A TOC ON EVERY SLIDE

\begin{document}
\transduration{1}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TITLE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{frame}
\transdissolve
\MyLogo
\begin{center}
% \includegraphics[height=1.5cm, angle=0]{unipd}
 \titlepage
\end{center}
\end{frame}

%%%% TOC
\begin{frame}{Contents}
\transboxin
\MyLogo
%\tableofcontents[pausesections,part=1]
 \tableofcontents
\end{frame}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FIRST SECTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{TITLE OF SECTION 1}

\subsection{TITLE OF SUBSECTION 1.1}
\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 1}
\transboxin
%\transblindshorizontal
% type of transition effect
\MyLogo
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{image}
\begin{block}{Block title}
Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. 
\end{block}
\end{center}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 2}
%\transblindshorizontal
\MyLogo
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{image}
\begin{alertblock}{Block title}
Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. \\
\end{alertblock}
\vspace{0.8cm}
\end{center}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 3}
%\transglitter
\MyLogo
\begin{columns}
\column{.6\textwidth}
 \includegraphics[width=.6\textwidth]{image} 
\column{.4\textwidth}
\begin{block}{Block title}
Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block.
\end{block}
\bigskip \bigskip
\begin{block}{Block title}
Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block. Description of this block.
\end{block}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 4}
%\transglitter
\MyLogo
\begin{columns}
\column{.6\textwidth}
 \includegraphics<1>[width=.5\textwidth]{image1} 
 \includegraphics<2>[width=.5\textwidth]{image} 
 \includegraphics<3>[width=.5\textwidth]{image3}
\column{.4\textwidth}
 \begin{itemize}
 \item<1-> Text: \alert{text}
 \item<2-> Text: \alert{text}
 \item<3-> Text: \alert{text}
 \end{itemize}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 5}
%\transdissolve
\MyLogo
\begin{columns}
\column{.4\textwidth}
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Text text text
 \item Text text text
 \item Text text text
 \item Text text text
 \end{itemize}
\column{.6\textwidth}
 \includegraphics [width=.5\textwidth]{image} 
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{frame}{TITLE OF FRAME 6}
\framesubtitle{SUBTITLE OF FRAME 6}
%\transdissolve
\MyLogo
\begin{columns}
\column{.25\textwidth}
\begin{align*}
 \alert{COP_H} &= \dfrac{\abs{Q_2}}{\abs{L}} \\
 &= \dfrac{\abs{Q_2}}{\abs{Q_2}-Q_1} \\
 &= \alert{\dfrac{T_2}{T_2-T_1}} \\
\end{align*}
\column{.75\textwidth}
 \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{image1}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\subsection{TITLE OF SUBSECTION 1.2}
\begin{frame}{SUBTITLE OF FRAME 7}
%\transblindshorizontal
\MyLogo
\begin{enumerate}
\item<1-> Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text;
\item<2-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text;
\item<3-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\subsection{TITLE OF SUBSECTION 1.3}
\begin{frame}{SUBTITLE OF FRAME 8}
%\transblindshorizontal
\MyLogo
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{image1}
\end{center}
\pause
\begin{beamercolorbox}[shadow=false, rounded=true]{postit2}
\begin{itemize}
\item text text text text text text text text text text
\item text text text text 
\item text text text text text text text text text text text text
\item text text text text
\end{itemize}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\end{frame}

\subsection{TITLE OF SUBSECTION 1.4}
\begin{frame}{SUBTITLE OF FRAME 9}
\transdissolve
\MyLogo
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text; 
\item<2-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text;
\item<3-> text text text text text text text text text text.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SECOND SECTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{TITLE OF SECTION 2}

\subsection{TITLE OF SUBSECTION 2.1}
\begin{frame}{SUBTITLE OF FRAME 10}
\transboxin
\MyLogo
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{beamercolorbox}[center, shadow=false, rounded=true]{postit2}
text text text text text text text text \numprint[m]{100} text text text text $\numprint[]{4} \div \numprint[kW_t]{7}$
\end{beamercolorbox}
\item<2-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\item<3-> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

%
% ...
%


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LAST FRAME %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{frame}
\transboxin
\MyLogo
\vspace{1.0cm}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=1.0cm, center, shadow=false, rounded=true]{postit2}
\begin{Huge}Thank you for your attention\end{Huge}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\pause
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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Nicola Rainiero

A civil geotechnical engineer with the ambition to facilitate own work with free software for a knowledge and collective sharing. Also, I deal with green energy and in particular shallow geothermal energy. I have always been involved in web design and 3D modelling.