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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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!
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