HRI Beamer Theme

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 TeX Live distribution for example).

It also looks nicer if the Flama font is installed in your system. You can download it from eg here: https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/flama

Special commands in this theme

Full-screen pictures

\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 workings of 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]{

%...

}

Videos

\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.

Bibliography references

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}
}

CreativeCommons License

Adding:

\licenseframe{<source url>}

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

Source code

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)

Badges

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>}

Reference and License

Based on HSRM Beamer theme by Benjamin.Weiss@kreatiefton.de

Made available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.