The Aalborg Beamer Theme
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1. AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Installatior Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Introduction Why the Aalborg beamer theme gt In August 2010 gave a presentation at the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO here in Aalborg For that purpose created the AAU sidebar beamer theme gt Since there was no Aalborg University AAU branded beamer theme published the theme after the conference on my website so that other researches and students at AAU could use the theme for their presentations gt have received a lot of positive feedback To my surprise several people not affiliated with AAU have used the theme despite the heavy AAU branding 20 G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kjzer Nielsen Introduction Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Introduction Why the Aalborg beamer theme gt v G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kjzer Nielsen In August 2010 gave a presentation at the European Introduction Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO here in Aalborg For that purpose created the AAU sidebar beamer theme Since there was no Aalborg University AAU branded beamer theme published the theme after the conference on my website so that other researches and students at AAU could use the theme for their presentations have rec2. Place the lt dirstruct gt in your newly created local latex directory tree Feedbacl lt somewhere gt texmf 4 Open the MiKTeX Settings dialog and click Refresh FNDB Installatior Microsoft Windows Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Installation Microsoft Windows Windows with TeX Live In the advanced TeX Live Installer you can manually change the default position of the root of the local latex directory tree However we assume the default position below 1 Place the lt dirstruct gt in your local latex directory tree Y USERPROFILE texmft If it does not exist create it In XP ZUSERPROFILEY is c Document and Settings lt username gt by default and in Vista and above it is by default c Users lt username gt 2 Open the TeX Live Manager dialog and select Update filename database under Actions Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Installatior e Microsoft Windows 20 Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Denmark Q Installation Mac OS X Anteons university The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Mac OS X with MacTeX Mac 08 Place the lt dirstruct gt in the root of your local latex directory tree By default it is Library texmf If the root does not exist create it The symbol refers to your home folder i e home lt username gt Dept of Electronic Systems Aalb
3. university The Aalborg Beamer The Outer Theme You can load the outer theme directly by useoutertheme lt options gt Aalborg Currently the theme options are Installatio Jesper Kjzer Nielsen gt hidetitle Hide the short title in the sidebar gt hideauthor hide the short author in the sidebar gt hideinstitute hide the short institute in the bottom of pes een the sidebar Theme Options shownavsym show the navigation symbols left or right position of the sidebar default is right width lt length gt width of the sidebar default is 2 cm hideothersubsections hide all subsections but the subsections in the current section gt hideallsubsections hide all subsections The last four options are inherited from the outer sidebar Des of Electors Systems theme 20 User Interface Feedback v vV VvV Y User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options The Color Theme You can load the color theme directly by usecolortheme Aalborg and it has no options Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Loading the Theme and Theme Options Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options The Color Theme You can load the color theme directly by usecolortheme Aalborg and it has no options The Color Element Aalborg The color theme defines a new beamer color element named Aalb
4. The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Compiling Your Presentation With the Aalborg ealeia Theme Unlike most other beamer themes this theme must be compiled at least three times to make everything look right For most other themes you do not have to compile your oo presentation more than two times For the Aalborg theme the third compilation is necessary to determine the position of the circle with the current frame number and the length of the Feedback progress bar Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 User Interface Modifying the Theme AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer gt The default configuration of fonts colors and layout e RY complies with the AAU design guidelines and is the official i version of the theme Introduction License Installation GNU Linux User Interface Load Theme and Compilation Modifying the theme Contact Information Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark User Interface Modifying the Theme AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer gt The default configuration of fonts colors and layout E ar complies with the AAU design guidelines and is the official version of the theme paseoan gt However you can modify specific elements of the theme Installation GNU Linux through the templates provided by the beamer class Please refer to the beamer user manual for instructi
5. The Aalborg Beamer Theme v 1 4 0 September 13 2014 Jesper Kj r Nielsen jkn es aau dk Department of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Denmark G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK Agenda The Aalborg Beamer Introduction License Installation GNU Linux Installation Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Required Packages User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options Compilation Modifying the theme k AAU Waves Widescreen Support Feedback Known Problems Bugs Comments and Suggestions Contact Information o 20 Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction User Interface Introduction Why the Aalborg beamer theme gt In August 2010 gave a presentation at the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO here in Aalborg For that purpose created the AAU sidebar beamer theme 20 G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Introduction Why the Aalborg beamer theme gt In August 2010 gave a presentation at the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO here in Aalborg For that purpose created the AAU sidebar beamer theme gt Since there was no Aalborg University AAU branded beamer theme published the theme after the conference on my website so that other researches and students at AAU could use the theme for their presentations 20 G
6. ectory structure in the global folder ready to be copied directly to the root of your local directory tree gt On the following slides we refer to this directory structure as lt dirstruct gt Note that some parts of the directory may already exist if you have installed other packages in your local latex directory tree If this is the case you simply merge lt dirstruct gt with your existing setup Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Installation User Interface Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Installation Q GNU Linux AALBORS UNIVERSITY The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Ubuntu with TeX Live aie 1 Place the lt dirstruct gt in the root of your local latex directory tree By default it is texmf If the root does not exist create it The symbol refers to your home folder i e home lt username gt 2 In a terminal run Fasdbad texhash texmf Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark Installation Q Microsoft Windows AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Windows with MiKTeX Apparently MiKTeX does not include a local latex directory tree by default Therefore you first have to create it 1 To do this create a folder lt somewhere gt named e g texmf 2 Add this folder in the Roots tab of the MiKTeX Settings dialog 3
7. eived a lot of positive feedback To my surprise several people not affiliated with AAU have used the theme despite the heavy AAU branding To make the theme more usable to people not affiliated with AAU have decided to create this theme called Aalborg which is very similar to the AAU sidebar theme but it does not come with the heavy AAU branding Bi Seahorses 20 Installatior User Interface Feedback Introduction License AALBORG UNIVERSITY The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen License gt The AAU logo is covered by copyright rules have used the logo from http aau designguides dk As long as you use the theme for making presentations in connection with your work at AAU you are allowed to use the AAU logo Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Introduction License AALBORG UNIVERSITY The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction gt The AAU logo is covered by copyright rules have used Installatior the logo from http aau designguides dk As long as you use the theme for making presentations in connection with your work at AAU you are allowed to use the AAU logo User Interface gt The rest of the theme is provided under the GNU General Public License v 3 GPLv3 This basically means that you can redistribute it and or modify it under the same license For more information on the GPL license see Feedback http www gnu org licenses Dept of Electronic Syst
8. ems Aalborg University 20 Installation The theme consists of four files 1 beamerthemeAalborg sty 2 beamerinnerthemeAalborg sty 3 beamerouterthemeAalborg sty 4 beamercolorthemeAalborg sty The theme can either be installed for local or global use G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Installation Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Denmark Installation NON DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen The theme consists of four files Introduction 1 beamerthemeAalborg sty Installation 2 beamerinnerthemeAalborg sty 3 beamerouterthemeAalborg sty 4 beamercolorthemeAalborg sty The theme can either be installed for local or global use Local Installation The simplest way of installing the theme is by placing the four Feedback theme files in the same folder as your presentation When you download the theme the four theme files are located in the local folder Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark Installation Global Installation gt f you wish to make the theme globally available you must put the files in your local latex directory tree The location of the root of the local directory tree depends on the operating system and the latex distribution On the following slides you can read the instructions for some common setups gt When you download the theme the four theme files are embedded in a dir
9. itle Frame Subtitle endtevanst G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction Installatior Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 User Interface Q The AAU Waves Background Image Aatgone university The Aalborg Beamer The AAU Waves Background Image Jesper kj r Nielsen gt In this documentation the title page frame and the last frame have the AAU waves as the background image The Installation AAU waves background image can be added to any single frame by wrapping a frame in the following way aauwavesbg User Interface begin frame lt options gt Frame Title Frame Subtitle endteanstt gt Ideally would like to create a new frame option called aauwavesbg which can enable the AAU waves background However have not been able to figure out how such an option can be added If you know how this can be done please contact me Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 User Interface Q Widescreen Support AALBORG UNIVERSITY The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen Widescreen Support instalation Newer projectors and almost any modern TV support a widescreen format such as 16 10 or 16 9 Beamer gt v 3 10 supports various aspect ratios of the slides According to section 8 3 on page 77 of the Beamer user guide v 3 10 you can write documentclass aspectratio 1610 beamer Widescreen Support to get slides with a
10. n aspect ratio of 16 10 You can also use Feedback 169 149 54 43 default and 32 to get other aspect ratios Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Feedback Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY Known Problems DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Overlapping footnote You might have problems with a too wide footnote text width This is problem with older versions of Beamer and it can be resolved by updating Beamer to a newer version You can read more about it in this bugreport Feedt 1 Known Problems Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark Feedback Bugs Comments and Suggestions gt There are probably still some bugs in the theme If you should find one then please let me know No bug is too small G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Feedback 1 Bugs Comments and Suggestions Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark Feedback Bugs Comments and Suggestions gt There are probably still some bugs in the theme If you should find one then please let me know No bug is too small gt Also please contact me if you have some exciting new ideas or just some simple usability improvements Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen l Installatior 1 Bugs Comments and Suggestions Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg Universit
11. ons User Interface Load Theme and Compilation Modifying the theme Contact Information Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark User Interface Modifying the Theme AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer gt The default configuration of fonts colors and layout Dine oe complies with the AAU design guidelines and is the official i version of the theme ee gt However you can modify specific elements of the theme Installation through the templates provided by the beamer class hae Please refer to the beamer user manual for instructions gt For example on this slide the following commands have been used gt Change the bar and sidebar colors setbeamercolor Aalborg fg gray 50 bg gray setbeamercolor sidebar bg red 20 gt Change the color of the structural elements setbeamercolor structure fg red gt Change the frame title text color setbeamercolor frametitle use structure fg structure fg gt Change the background color of the text setbeamercolor normal text bg gray 20 aan ee 20 Denmark Feedback User Interface The AAU Waves Background Image The AAU Waves Background Image gt In this documentation the title page frame and the last frame have the AAU waves as the background image The AAU waves background image can be added to any single frame by wrapping a frame in the following way aauwavesbg begin frame lt options gt Frame T
12. org University 20 Denmark Installation Q Required Packages AALBORG UNIVERSITY The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kjzer Nielsen Introduction Of course you have to have the Beamer class installed In Installatior addition the theme loads two packages gt TikZ 10 raquted Packages L gt calc These packages are very common and should therefore be included in your latex distribution 1By the way TikZ is an awesome package for creating beautiful graphics If you do not believe me then have a look at these online examples or the pgf user manual If you want to create beautiful plots you should use the pgfplots package which is based o Etecronic Systems on TikZ 20 Denmark User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options The Presentation Theme It is very simple to load the presentation theme Just type usetheme lt options gt Aalborg which is exactly the same way other beamer presentation themes are loaded The presentation theme loads the inner outer and color Aalborg theme files and passes the lt options gt on to these files The Inner Theme You can load the inner theme directly by useinnertheme Aalborg and it has no options 20 G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University User Interface Q Loading the Theme and Theme Options Aatgone
13. org whose foreground and background colors are gt fg gt bg dark blue RGB 33 26 82 You can use these colors in the standard beamer way by using the command usebeamercolor lt fg or bg gt Aalborg See the beamer manual for instructions 20 Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options The Color Theme You can load the color theme directly by usecolortheme Aalborg and it has no options The Color Element Aalborg The color theme defines a new beamer color element named Aalborg whose foreground and background colors are gt fg gt bg dark blue RGB 33 26 82 You can use these colors in the standard beamer way by using the command usebeamercolor lt fg or bg gt Aalborg See the beamer manual for instructions Note that this version of the theme is an official AAU version and is in accordance with the AAU design guide However you can easily change it including the colour of the logo by following the steps in beamercolorthemeAalborg sty 20 Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Jesper Kj r Nielsen User Interface Loading the Theme and Theme Options Feedback Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University User Interface Q Compilation AALBORG UNIVERSITY
14. y 20 Denmark Feedback Q AALBORG UNIVERSITY Contact Information DENMARK The Aalborg Beamer Theme Jesper Kj r Nielsen Introduction In case you have any comments suggestions or have found a Installatior bug please do not hesitate to contact me You can find my contact details below Jesper Kj r Nielsen jkn es aau dk http kom aau dk jkn Niels Jernes Vej 12 A6 309 9220 Aalborg Feedback 20 Contact Information Dept of Electronic Systems Aalborg University 20 Denmark Thank you for using this theme G AALBORG UNIVERSITY DENMARK
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