I am making a beamer presentation, and it doesn't seem to want to be my friend.
The main problems:
(1) When it compiles (pdflatex) the output is a series of slides, and after each \pause it makes a new slide with a higher number. That is to say: clicking does uncover a new bit of information properly, but it changes the slide number which is annoying to say the least.
(2) The footer isn't working at all. I got a template which should do the usual thing for beamer slides and display the slide title, author, and which slide out of how many at the bottom, but it's just not doing this. The only thing that gets compiled at the bottom is a single digit representing which slide I am on.
My guess: I think there's something screwy in my preamble, but I just don't know enough of what's going on with all the moving parts to properly pin down the exact problem. I've included it below in case that's of any use.
\documentclass[mathserif,18pt,xcolor=table]{beamer}
\usepackage {bbm}
\usepackage {textpos}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{graphicx}%
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{stmaryrd,mathrsfs}
\usepackage{prettyref,hyperref}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix,calc,3d}
[custom math-mode commands, omitted for brevity]
\newcommand{\drawbox}[1]{\begin{array}{|l|}\hline #1 \\
\hline\end{array}}
\newtheoremstyle{thmstyle}{1em}{1.5em}{}{.7em}{\bf}{:}{0.5em}{}
\theoremstyle{thmstyle} \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]
%\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} \newtheorem{conjecture}{Conjecture}
\newtheorem{project}{Project} \newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition}
\newtheorem{cor}[thm]{Corollary} \newtheorem{lem}[thm]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{rem}[thm]{Remark} \newtheorem{ex}[thm]{Example}
\newtheorem{prop}[thm]{Proposition}
\newtheorem{ithm}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{conj}[thm]{Conjecture}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}
\newrefformat{lem}{Lemma~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{prop}{Proposition~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{conj}{Conjecture~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{def}{Definition~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{sec}{Section~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{thm}{Theorem~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{rem}{Remark~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{cor}{Corollary~\ref{#1}}
\newrefformat{fig}{Figure~\ref{#1}}
\definecolor{utorange}{RGB}{203,96,21}
\definecolor{utblack}{RGB}{99,102,106}
\definecolor{utbrown}{RGB}{110,98,89}
\definecolor{utsecbrown}{RGB}{217,200,158}
\definecolor{utsecgreen}{RGB}{208,222,187}
\definecolor{utsecblue}{RGB}{127,169,174}
\definecolor{utgray}{HTML}{B2BEB5}
\mode<presentation> { % \usetheme{Pittsburgh} %
\usetheme{Boadilla} \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
\setbeamercovered{invisible} \setbeamertemplate{navigation
symbols}{}
% Color Theme
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=white,fg=utblack} \setbeamercolor{structure}{bf=utgray,fg=utorange}
\setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=red!85!black}
\setbeamercolor{item projected}{use=item,fg=black,bg=item.fg!35}
\setbeamercolor*{palette primary}{use=structure,fg=white,
bg=utorange} \setbeamercolor*{palette
secondary}{use=structure,bg=utsecbrown} \setbeamercolor*{palette
tertiary}{use=structure,bg=utsecgreen} \setbeamercolor*{palette
quaternary}{use=structure,fg=structure.fg,bg=utsecblue}
% \setbeamercolor*{frametitle}{use=structure,fg=utorange,
bg=utsecbrown} \setbeamercolor*{framesubtitle}{fg=utbrown}
\setbeamercolor*{block
title}{parent=structure,fg=black,bg=utsecgreen}
\setbeamercolor*{block body}{fg=black,bg=utblack!10}
\setbeamercolor*{block title alerted}{parent=alerted text,bg=black!15}
\setbeamercolor*{block title example}{parent=example text,bg=black!15}
\setbeamerfont{framesubtitle}{size=\small} }
\hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen}
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=custom,width=16,height=9.75,scale=0.5,debug]{beamerposter}
%
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=custom,width=16,height=9,scale=0.5,debug]{beamerposter}
\makeatletter \setbeamertemplate{footline} { \leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author
in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor%~~\beamer@ifempty{\insertshortinstitute}{}{(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title
in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date
in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt% } \makeatother
\usepackage{kerkis} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=1.0cm]{utbig}{logos/UTWordmark}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.6cm]{ut}{logos/UTWordmark}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=1.5cm]{sclogo}{logos/SC12} %
\pgfdeclareimage[height=1.0cm]{scsmall}{logos/SC12}
\title{title} %
\subtitle{If you have one} \author[author]{ \underline{author} }
\institute{institute \\ \mbox{} \\ \pgfuseimage{utbig}
} \date[date]{\pgfuseimage{sclogo} \\ \today}
Best Answer
There is some serious TeX slaying and package orgy happening which is normal if you don't have a lot of TeX experience. I was like this too. Many of these stuff is for articles. So avoid loading these packages. For example, the reference stuff Lemma, Conjecture bla bla you don't need at all. Because these are slides if you really have to use
cleverefpackage but please don't.So randomly removing stuff until it compiles gives me this.