A nice looking Beamer theme, based on HSRM Beamer theme by Benjamin Weiss, with a few improvements like full-screen pictures and videos. Download the pre-compiled demo presentation.

To compile, simply run make. This Beamer theme requires lualatex for compilation (available in the TeXlive distribution for example).

It also looks nicer if the Flama font is installed in your system. Download it from here:

• Flama Light
• Flama Book
• Flama Medium

\imageframe[color=...,caption=...,scale=...]{mypic.jpg}

Note that the picture's aspect ratio is respected.

• color: colour of the background. Defaults to white.
• caption: caption that will be displayed as an overlay on top of the picture
• scale: a scaling factor (useful to add a small margin around the picture for instance). Defaults to 1.0.

Due to the inner working o TikZ, you may have to compile your presentation twice to get the background image to appear!

Alternatively, you can use this syntax to set a background image for any slide:

{\fullbackground[options]{mypic.jpg}

\begin{frame}
%...
\end{frame}
}

(the same options as for imageframe are available)

or the shortcut:

\bgframe[mypic.jpg]{

%...

}

\video[aspect ratio]{width}{myvideo.webm}

This integrates a video in your presentation (attention: the video file itself is not embedded in the PDF: you need to take it along with your PDF). Clicking on it opens the default system video player for the given video format (using pdfpc, you can also play the video directly inside your presentation, cf below).

• aspect ratio is a real value equal to height/width, defaults to 16:9 (ie, 0.56).
• width is any valid Beamer length (like 0.7\textwidth for instance)

A preview picture (typically, the first frame of the video) is used if a file called myvideo_thumb.jpg is found. Assuming avconv is available on your system, make thumbs will generate such a preview picture for you.

Note that, if played with pdfpc, the video will be nicely overlaid on top of the slide, exactly covering the video preview. pdfpc also support special extended URI for the video file, allowing to define options like start and stop times (in seconds from the beginning), looping, auto-start and mute (no audio). For instance:

\video[aspect ratio]{width}{myvideo.webm?start=20&stop=34&autostart&noaudio&loop}

make thumbs will also use the start time, if specified, to generate a thumbnail of the video at the correct time.

You can also produce a full-screen video frame with:

\videoframe[aspect ratio]{myvideo.webm}

aspect ratio defaults to 4:3 (ie, fullscreen on Beamer). Set it to 0.56 (=9/16) for 16:9 for instance.

You can insert references to specific paper in the footer of a slide that way:

{
  \paper{Superman, How Kripton changed my life, Springer 2014}
  \begin{frame}
  ...
  \end{frame}
}

Adding:

\licenseframe{<source url>}

creates a frame with a CreateCommons BY-SA license explanation and a link to download the source.

The nice minted package is provided (and pre-configured for C++, Python, sh and XML) so that rendering beautiful syntax-highlighted code is a breeze:

\begin{pythoncode}

def print_hello():
    print("Hello World!")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print_hello()
\end{pythoncode}

Note that this requires pygmentize to be installed on your machine (sudo apt-get install python-pygments)

We can use the \badge command inside a frame to display a small (2cmx2cm) picture in the top right corner of the slide:

\badge{<image>}

Based on HSRM Beamer theme by [email protected]

Made available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.