[Tex/LaTex] Change papersize of selected slides in beamer

beamergeometry

Is it possible to change the paper size of some frames in beamer? I know you can change the global paper size using \geometry{paperwidth=,paperheight=} in the preamble, but assuming you want to change the size for one or a couple of slides only, how would you do that? The above command only works in the preamble.

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Broadly 'no'. You can use \newgeometry between frames

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Some text}
  Some text
\end{frame}

\newgeometry{a4paper}

\begin{frame}{Some text}
  Some text
\end{frame}

\end{document}

but beamer does not 'know' about this and frame decoration will end up in the wrong place. Moreover, given the target of beamer (making presentation slides) it's hard to see how such a change can be meaningful.

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The following solution wraps each potential frame in its own environment and both of these in a parent environment. In wide mode the inner ones are not doing anything except setting the frame title and the outer environment is the frame. In the other mode the outer is a no-op and the inner are the frames. This uses the environment key of the frame environment to tell it which \end ends the frame content.

This might not (yet) support the full range of frame optional arguments (<>, [< >] etc.).

\documentclass{beamer}

\newif\ifwide
\widetrue

\ifwide

\newenvironment<>{frames}[1][]{%
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=frames,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}
\newenvironment<>{firstframe}[2][]{
  \frametitle{#2}%
}{}%
\newenvironment<>{secondframe}[2][]{}{}%

\else

\newenvironment<>{frames}[1][]{%
}{%
}
\newenvironment<>{firstframe}[1][]{
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=firstframe,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}%
\newenvironment<>{secondframe}[1][]{
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=firstframe,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}%

\fi

\begin{document}

\begin{frames}
\begin{firstframe}{A frame}
    Some text (...)
\end{firstframe}
\begin{secondframe}{A second frame}
    Some text (continued)
\end{secondframe}
\end{frames}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] way to change papersize in beamer

The class beamer uses the package geometry to setup the page dimension. The package geometry provides the command \geometry to set options in the preamble. So you can simple use:

\geometry{paper=a4}

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