[Tex/LaTex] beamer doesn’t work after upgrading to MiKTeX 2.9 – 20 error messages

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After upgrading to MiKTeX 2.9 my beamer files stopped working. The code:

\documentclass{beamer} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{frame} 
Hello 
\end{frame} 
\end{document}

Gives some 20 errors and two warnings, the first error being:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...eamer@linkspace {6pt}\Hy@xspace@end 
                             \Hy@LinkMath \Hy@SaveSpace...

and the first warning:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
(Font)              size <5> substituted on input line 3.

The log file is available here.

I have searched the web in vain, for example tried deleting the .aux file as suggested at Beamer – undefined control sequence, the solutions did not work.

Best Answer

update the package hyperref. If it is not available with MiKTeX (for TeXLive it was updated yesterday) try in the preamble:

\makeatletter\def\Hy@xspace@end{}\makeatother

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[Tex/LaTex] Author and institute don’t appear when adding background image to title page in beamer

If all you want to do is to add an image in the background for the title page, the method described in the linked answer is not the most appropriate one, since setting the title page template demands setting all the elements of the template and their attributes (which is part of your problem (see below)).

A more convenient approach is to locally (inside a group) set the background canvas template:

\documentclass{beamer}

\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=white}

\title{The title}
\author{The Author}
\institute{The Institute}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{%
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{mushrooms}}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\endgroup

\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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If you, however, want to completely change the title page template by setting the template from scratch, then:

Your title is not centered because your current settings don't tell LaTeX that you want it centered; in fact, the minipage you are using for the title is way too big, as you can see by temporarily disabling the colors and framing it:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package (or none)
\newcommand*\quotefont{\fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-TLF}} % selects Libertine for quote font
\usepackage{tikz}
\usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}
\setbeamerfont*{frametitle}{size=\normalsize,series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
%\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}

\pgfdeclareimage[width=\paperwidth]{mybackground}{bigdata410}

\setbeamertemplate{title page}{   
        \begin{picture}(0,0) 
            \put(-30,-163){%
    %            \pgfuseimage{mybackground}
            } 
            \put(0,-110.7){%
            \centering
                \frame{\begin{minipage}[b][45mm][t]{226mm}
                \centering
                    \usebeamerfont{title}{\inserttitle\par}
                \end{minipage}}
            }  
            \end{picture}
    } 
\title{Lost in data}
\author[Author et al.\@]{Author}
\institute{University of }
\date{}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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Change 226mm to \textwidth and use \centering inside the minipage:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package (or none)
\newcommand*\quotefont{\fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-TLF}} % selects Libertine for quote font
\usepackage{tikz}
\usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}
\setbeamerfont*{frametitle}{size=\normalsize,series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
%\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}

\pgfdeclareimage[width=\paperwidth]{mybackground}{bigdata410}

\setbeamertemplate{title page}{   
        \begin{picture}(0,0) 
            \put(-30,-163){%
    %            \pgfuseimage{mybackground}
            } 
            \put(0,-110.7){%
                \frame{\begin{minipage}[b][45mm][t]{\textwidth}
                    \centering
                    \usebeamerfont{title}{\inserttitle\par}
                \end{minipage}}
            }  
            \end{picture}
    } 
\title{Lost in data}
\author[Author et al.\@]{Author}
\institute{University of }
\date{}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Perhaps you also want to reduce the height?

There's no title nor institution since your settings for the title page template don't have the corresponding inserts; where do you want this information to appear? Use \insertauthor, \insertinstitution at the desired locations. For example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package (or none)
\newcommand*\quotefont{\fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-TLF}} % selects Libertine for quote font
\usepackage{tikz}
\usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}
\setbeamerfont*{frametitle}{size=\normalsize,series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}

\pgfdeclareimage[width=\paperwidth]{mybackground}{bigdata410}

\setbeamertemplate{title page}{   
        \begin{picture}(0,0) 
            \put(-30,-163){%
                \pgfuseimage{mybackground}
            } 
            \put(0,-110.7){%
                \frame{\begin{minipage}[b][45mm][t]{\textwidth}
                    \centering
                    \usebeamerfont{title}{\inserttitle\par}\vfill
                    \usebeamerfont{author}{\insertauthor\par}\vfill
                    \usebeamerfont{institute}{\insertinstitute\par}
                \end{minipage}}
            }  
            \end{picture}
    } 
\title{Lost in data}
\author[Author et al.\@]{Author}
\institute{University of }
\date{}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Once you are happy with the settings, delete (or comment out) the \frame command:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package (or none)
\newcommand*\quotefont{\fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-TLF}} % selects Libertine for quote font
\usepackage{tikz}
\usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}
\setbeamerfont*{frametitle}{size=\normalsize,series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}

\pgfdeclareimage[width=\paperwidth]{mybackground}{bigdata410}

\setbeamertemplate{title page}{   
        \begin{picture}(0,0) 
            \put(-30,-163){%
                \pgfuseimage{mybackground}
            } 
            \put(0,-110.7){%
                \begin{minipage}[b][45mm][t]{\textwidth}
                    \centering
                    \usebeamerfont{title}{\inserttitle\par}\vfill
                    \usebeamerfont{author}{\insertauthor\par}\vfill
                    \usebeamerfont{institute}{\insertinstitute\par}
                \end{minipage}%
            }  
            \end{picture}
    } 
\title{Lost in data}
\author[Author et al.\@]{Author}
\institute{University of }
\date{}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

There are several ways to remedy this warning; load a font containing the missing font size (lmodern, for example) or use \let\Tiny\tiny.

[Tex/LaTex] embed mp4 video in latex beamer on Mac OSX Yosemite

otherwise, you can link to the file and use Présentation.app (see LaTeX integration section). you link to the file and the application will show the first frame of the movie and switch to a full screen movie player when you click on it. a minimal working example (provided you have a video named 720p25_pedestrian.mov next to the pdf generated by latex):

\documentclass{beamer}
\newcommand{\pdfmovie}[4]{\href{run:#1}{\framebox{\parbox[c][#3][c]{#2}{\center #4}}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
    \pdfmovie{720p25_pedestrian.mov}{6cm}{4cm}{H.264 avi}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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