University of Oregon theme for Beamer

Beamer is a slides/presentation class for LaTeX. It is included in most recent LaTeX installations and on the department machines. It can be downloaded from the Beamer website if it is not yet on your system.

In order to avoid duplication of effort, I have created a University of Oregon theme for Beamer. It's a nice clean presentation design with the UO seal in the upper left corner and an optional logo of your own choosing in the upper right corner. Here's a screenshot that links to a PDF of the presentation it came from:

For the impatient, here are direct links to the files in question. The first two are required but the third is optional.

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Using the theme is very simple. Download the files beamerthemeuoregon.sty and uoseal.png and place them in your working directory. Then, add the line

\usetheme{uoregon}

I got the University of Oregon seal from the official source and the CIS department logo from Jim Allen

to your presentation TeX file, and that's it! You may optionally specify a deprtment or lab logo by adding, to the same file, the line

\logo{\includegraphics[height=.5in]{cslogo.png}}

substituting your desired logo for cslogo.png. If you do want the CIS department's logo, then you can download it as cslogo.png.

Throughout the document, if you want to use the appropriate green and yellow colors for something, you can put uogreen or uoyellow where you would have formerly put blue or black or another color name.

So, to sum up: There's a University of Oregon style for Beamer now, the two required files are beamerthemeuoregon.sty and uoseal.png, and it's really easy to use. A tarball of the LaTeX code I used to make a presentation that I actually gave can be found as samplepresentation.tgz. If you have any questions, you can email me at peter@cs.uoregon.edu or (even better!) post your question below. Things that are posted are also emailed to me, but then I only have to answer those questions once :)

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8 comment(s)

Joachim in Berlin 2:09 am 7 August 2007
This is a very nice theme, exactly what I was looking for as a starting point for a theme that also has two different logos in the upper corners. Thanks a lot for making it available as self-contained tarball.
Peter 12:05 pm 7 August 2007
You are very welcome!
Emmanuel (Bordeaux) 3:20 am 11 June 2008
I liked a lot this theme. I also took it as a starting point. Thanks a lot !
Amir 7:25 am 16 January 2009
How can I change the bottom line to not include the title (since my title is very long and doesn't fit into that box)?
Also, how can I add slide number? (maybe of the form <slide #/total #> , it can be placed instead of the title box... )
Thanks in advance!
Yu (Ann Arbor) 12:04 pm 31 March 2009
Hi Peter,
Thank you very much for sharing this great theme, I really need to know how to put two logos in the upper corners with beamer.

I have two questions may need your help.
First, my logo picture is rectangle other than a square, so it always appears on the bottom of a virtual square with blank space on the top of the logo. Could you give me some clue on how to correct this? To add some blank space below the logo to get a new picture is the only thing I can do now.
Second, I am new to beamer. So, I am wondering if it's possible to keep the original color theme of Copenhagen theme? And how?
Thank you in advance.
Peter 12:52 pm 31 March 2009
You should crop your logo so that it works right for you. I am a little unsure whether that means to remove space on top or to add space on the bottom in your case.

Inside the style files, there are many opportunities to change the colors of the theme. Good luck!
hanyahamdin23@yahoo.com 8:44 am 17 May 2009
How can I place the logo in the top right corner of the slide instead
fni (Brussels) 1:16 pm 10 June 2009
I was looking for some time for a way to insert to logos, one for our company and one for the client the slides are aimed to. Thanks for having shown a way to do so. This page is really sober, clear and helpful. Thanks a lot, Peter!
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