Beamer – How to Create a Table of Contents

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I have seen a nice looking table of contents in a Beamer presentation. There were some formulas, pictures, graphs situated across the frame in a shadow background. Any idea how to do this?enter image description here

Best Answer

You can use the background template; the background is an image that can be included with the usual \includegraphics command; the opacity is controlled by putting the image inside a \node with the help of TikZ; after the ToC, the template is again redefined to suppress the image:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Boadilla}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
   \tikz\node[opacity=0.3] at (current page.center) {\includegraphics[height=\paperheight]{ctanlion}};}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Outline}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\setbeamertemplate{background}{}
\section{Test Section One}
\begin{frame}
Contents of section one
\end{frame}

\section{Test Section Two}
\begin{frame}
Contents of section two
\end{frame}

\section{Test Section Three}
\begin{frame}
Contents of section three
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

CTAN lion drawing by Duane Bibby.

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