[Tex/LaTex] Modify footer of slides

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I am editing a presentation with beamer, the theme is Boadilla:

\date{date}
\title[The title is quite quite quite quite quite quite long]{The title is quite quite quite quite quite quite long}
\author{My name}
\institute{My school}
\usetheme{Boadilla}

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There are several things I would like to change:

1) When I open the pdf file in "Slideshow" mode, the list of buttons on the right bottom is still visible, I don't think it is necessary, could anyone tell me how to remove it?

2) On the bottom, there are currently 3 parts. For the 1st part, My school is appended automatically after My name, is it possible to remove My school?

3) I don't think date is necessary, which is the 3rd part. Is it possible to just remove this part, so that I have more space for the title + page number? If it is not possible, I would prefer to put the name of Section at the 2nd part instead of the title, does anyone know how to do it?

Best Answer

You can redefine the footline template as defined by the infolines outer theme (internally used by the Boadilla theme); \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} will remove tha navigation symbols:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Boadilla}

\makeatother
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
  \leavevmode%
  \hbox{%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.4\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor
  \end{beamercolorbox}%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.6\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle\hspace*{3em}
    \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{1ex}
  \end{beamercolorbox}}%
  \vskip0pt%
}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

\date{date}
\title[The title is quite quite quite quite quite quite long]{The title is quite quite quite quite quite quite long}
\author{My name}
\institute{My school}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] how can I remove the institute from the author footline on beamer

Madrid uses infolines as the outer theme, so you can set the footline template to not include the parentheses, but to keep all the other elements as they were:

\documentclass{beamer} 
\usetheme{Madrid}

\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
\begin{document}


\author{A.U. Thor}
\institute{The Institute}

\begin{frame}
Test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Here's the bottom of the frame produced by my example code:

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[Tex/LaTex] problem with a beamer theme

As Paul Gaborit mentions in his comment, you can use the plain option for those frames (to effectively remove the headline and footline) or you can use the shrink option (this option will cause the text of the frame to be shrunk if it is too large to fit on the frame).

In the following example I show the same contents (taken from example-talk.tex) in three different frames with three settings; first, the default behaviour showing the blocks protruding; the second one shows the effect of the plain option, and the third one shows the effect of using the evil option shrink:

\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usetheme{Air}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Prerequisites \& Goals}
  \framesubtitle{Knowledge is a brick wall that you raise line by line forever}
  \begin{block}{LaTeX}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Obviously some basic LaTeX knowledge is necessary
    \item Some more features will be provided here
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Goal}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Learn how to make well structured slides
    \item Using a beautiful theme (congrats to the Oxygen team!)
    \item Take over the world
    \item Relax...
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[plain]
  \frametitle{Prerequisites \& Goals}
  \framesubtitle{Knowledge is a brick wall that you raise line by line forever}
  \begin{block}{LaTeX}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Obviously some basic LaTeX knowledge is necessary
    \item Some more features will be provided here
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Goal}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Learn how to make well structured slides
    \item Using a beautiful theme (congrats to the Oxygen team!)
    \item Take over the world
    \item Relax...
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[shrink=10]
  \frametitle{Prerequisites \& Goals}
  \framesubtitle{Knowledge is a brick wall that you raise line by line forever}
  \begin{block}{LaTeX}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Obviously some basic LaTeX knowledge is necessary
    \item Some more features will be provided here
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Beamer}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item You'll learn them by looking at this presentation source
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}

  \begin{block}{Goal}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Learn how to make well structured slides
    \item Using a beautiful theme (congrats to the Oxygen team!)
    \item Take over the world
    \item Relax...
  \end{itemize}
  \end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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As a personal opinion, frames with too much text should be avoided (if possible); the best option is to distribute the material in such a way that it fits on the frame without any special treatment.

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