[Tex/LaTex] How to set a time between slides to create an automatic slideshow with beamer

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I switched from PowerPoint to Beamer. I developed my presentation in Beamer and would like to create a slide show that will play my file automatically. Is there a way to set a time between slide as we can do in a PowerPoint slideshow?

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You can use the \transduration command for this (page 142 of the manual):

\transduration<⟨overlay specification⟩>{⟨number of seconds⟩} In full screen mode, show the slide for ⟨number of seconds⟩. If zero is specified, the slide is shown as short as possible. This can be used to create interesting pseudo-animations. Example: \transduration<2>{1}

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my first frame
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my second frame
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\transduration{0.75}
This is my third frame
\end{frame}

\end{document}

output - I use convert -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 -density 300 file.pdf file.gif to make gif.

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Howdy this is my solution:

   \documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{etextools}
\makeatletter
%Here comes the Framelist
%
\newcommand{\printframelist}{ }
\newcommand{\@savefrml}{ }
\newcommand{\frameliston}{%
\let\oldframetitle\frametitle
\newcommand{\tgframelistfronthook}{$\cdot$}
\newcommand{\tgframelistbackhook}{\\ }
\newcommand\myaddto[1]{%
  \write\@auxout{\noexpand\@writefile{frml}{\noexpand ##1}}}
  \renewcommand{\printframelist}{\@starttoc{frml}}
\renewcommand{\frametitle}[1]{\oldframetitle{##1}%
\xifstrequal{##1}{\@savefrml}{}{
\myaddto{ \noexpand%
\tgframelistfronthook ##1 \noexpand\tgframelistbackhook}%
}
\global\def\@savefrml{##1}%
}
}


\makeatother
\frameliston
\begin{document}
\frame{\frametitle{FIRST}}
\frame{\frametitle{Second}}
\frame{\frametitle{Third}}
\begin{frame}
\printframelist
\end{frame}
% The following should turn the framlist off for one slide when\anotherft is used  
\let\anotherft\oldframetitle
\frame{\anotherft{FIRST A}}
\frame{\frametitle{Second A}}
\frame{\frametitle{Third A}}
\end{document}

This uses the very basic LaTeX mechanism on creating external files (like toc). extetools are used to compare strings and decide to print or not to print the title (for overlays). See in bitbucket.org/tobig/hohenheimbeamertheme/

Redefine \tgframelistbackhookand \tgframelistfronthook as you please.

EDIT: What you are showing in your example given above is that you put the whole columns stuff into the frametitle. And it breaks. Remember the frame environment is defined as

    \begin{frame}<⟨overlay specification⟩>[<⟨default overlay specification⟩>][⟨options⟩]{⟨title⟩}{⟨subtitle⟩}
 ⟨environment contents⟩
    \end{frame}

(see beamer documentation)

The first brakets after \begin{frame} will be interpreted as the title. This will work:

\begin{frame}
    \Huge
        \vspace {0.35\textwidth}
% Don't remove
        \begin{columns}
            \begin{column}{0.3\textwidth}
            \end{column}
% Don't remove
            \begin{column}{0.3\textwidth}
                    \textbf{Thanks!}
            \end{column}
% Don't remove
            \begin{column}{0.3\textwidth}
            \end{column}
        \end{columns}
\end{frame}

[Tex/LaTex] How to include existing PDF slides into the Beamer presentation

To import a slide from another beamer presentation as a "picture", you can use pdfpages. You'll have to \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=} as explained in this answer because only a white frame will be shown otherwise:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Content
\end{frame}
{
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=}
\includepdf[pages=3]{filea.pdf}
}
\end{document}

However, if you use head- or footlines or even a different theme in your existing presentation, this will probably not fit snugly. In this case, a better solution would be to actually import the source code of the existing presentation, which can be done using the docmute package in combination with the \againframe command:

Suppose this is your existing presentation filea.tex: You need to give the slides you want to import a name using the label option of the frame environment, like this:

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[label=myframe]
Frame to be included
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Then you can use this code in your new presentation:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{docmute}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\loadpresentation}[1]{{\beamer@inlecturefalse\input{#1}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\loadpresentation{filea.tex}
\begin{frame}
  The new presentation
\end{frame}
\againframe{myframe}
\end{document}

Issuing \loadpresentation{filea.tex} imports the frames from your existing presentation without displaying them. You can insert them wherever needed using \againframe with the label you chose in filea.tex. The command \loadpresentation should be used someplace after \begin{document} (but before you actually include a frame from this presentation, of course).

This works roughly the same as if you'd actually copy the source code of the frame from the existing presentation, so things like overlays etc. are taken over.

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