using different themes on same presentation with beamer

[Necati Demir]

Hello,

I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use

1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.

How can i do that?

[Richard Heck]

Post by Necati Demir
Hello,
I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use
1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.
How can i do that?

I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.

rh

[Rich Shepard]

Post by Richard Heck
I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.

In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse
your audience. Regardless, you might find PowerPoint more suitable based on
the horrible presentations I've seen people show.

Rich

[Necati Demir]

Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am
preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second
slide will be training notes of first side, third slide will be
presentation and fourth slide will be traing notes of third slide, ....

Training notes in second and fouth slides will be written in note{} section.

After printing out the with pgfpages, one A4 page containg a slide and
training notes about it.
Without printing pgfpages, i will have presentation to present.

I attached the pdf and lyx files.

Post by Richard Heck
I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do
everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list.

 In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse
your audience. Regardless, you might find PowerPoint more suitable based on
the horrible presentations I've seen people show.
Rich

[Rich Shepard]

Post by Necati Demir
Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am
preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second slide
will be training notes of first side, third slide will be presentation and
fourth slide will be traing notes of third slide, ....

Necati,

I've not tried to integrate notes and visuals. I thought the Beamer class
note feature was for speaker notes.

If I was in your position (and I have been, several times :-) ) I would
separate the two components.

Well designed and presented visuals are brief lists of bullet points with
the occasional figure or quotation. If you've ever taken home printed slides
from a presentation you attended, and looked at those pages a few weeks to a
few months later, how much information did you get from them? Probably not
as much as you would have wanted. Same thing with downloading presentations
from the Web: they don't tell the entire story.

I always prepare an accompanying article or book that goes into more
detail than is on the slides. For a presentation to the Bureau of Land
Management's Minerals Workshop on our approach to quantifying subjectivity
in environmental impact assessments, I prepared and distributed a 24-page
article. For the 2-day seminars I presented in Perth and Melbourne
(Australia) a couple of years ago on the same subject, I prepared a 125-page
book. Attendees could take notes in the documents (I did not include the
slides as illustrations, but I could have done so), but the text went into
much greater detail than was presented on each slide.

If your training is on a topic that would have added value by the students
taking away a more detailed textual explanation they could use for reference
and refresher learning, you'd provide greater value and they'd like you
better for the effort.

Rich

[Rob Oakes]

While it is true that you can't switch between different themes in a Beamer document, you can approximate the effect through the use of color, font, inner and outer themes. (See the Beamer manual for a more thorough discussion of each.)

By being smart, you can combine the different theme components you want into custom macros that can be used in your document. Then, you can switch between the different appearances by invoking your macro at the appropriate place int h document.

I have attached a simple example to this email (you will need to modify it as I haven't included the fonts or design files, which are copyrighted). It's based on a KeyNote theme that I particularly like and has a light and a dark color scheme. (Example slides are also attached.)

Going the custom route also has an additional advantage, it allows you to create slides that are attractive and personalized. If you create something that you like and that matches your personal tastes, it means that you will spend more time working on the content and less time dicking around with your slide appearance. (Just my $0.02, though.)

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email and i'd be happy to try and help you sort out a custom theme.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

[Necati Demir]

Rob,
Can you send a lyx file that uses your sty file?

While it is true that you can't switch between different themes in a Beamer document, you can approximate the effect through the use of color, font, inner and outer themes.  (See the Beamer manual for a more thorough discussion of each.)
By being smart, you can combine the different theme components you want into custom macros that can be used in your document.  Then, you can switch between the different appearances by invoking your macro at the appropriate place int h document.
I have attached a simple example to this email (you will need to modify it as I haven't included the fonts or design files, which are copyrighted).  It's based on a KeyNote theme that I particularly like and has a light and a dark color scheme.  (Example slides are also attached.)
Going the custom route also has an additional advantage, it allows you to create slides that are attractive and personalized.  If you create something that you like and that matches your personal tastes, it means that you will spend more time working on the content and less time dicking around with your slide appearance.  (Just my $0.02, though.)
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email and i'd be happy to try and help you sort out a custom theme.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Necati,

I don't typically use LyX when working with Beamer. I think it's easier to just use plain LaTeX.

However, attached you will find the source file for the example slides I included earlier. The theme commands are invoked with ERT insets.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Cheers,

Rob

[Kenward Vaughan]

Post by Necati Demir
Hello,
I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use
1) different theme,
2) custom theme,
3) no theme.
How can i do that?

If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf
files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or
something else.


Kenward

[Rich Shepard]

If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files
for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something
else.

Take a look at pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit):
www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Rich