Use

Compiling

The polytechnique-beamer package uses a weird trick with .pdf files for its graphisms. Therefore the pictures are only available in pdf format. You would then need to use PDFLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX in order to compile correctly your documents.

If you ever encounter troubles while trying to open one of your .pdf files made with PDFLaTeX, it might mean that your reader is not compliant enough. You can generally solve this by adding the following line at the very beginning of your .tex file (before \documentclass).

\pdfminorversion=4

Basic document using polytechnique-beamer

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}

\usepackage{beamerx}

\title[Subtitle]{Title}
\author{John Smith}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

basic.tex - basic.pdf

Commands to populate documents with content

Sections

\xsection{violet}[Short-title]{Title}
\xsection{violet}[Short-title]{Title}[my-picture]
\xsection*{violet}{Title}

section.tex - section.pdf

Sub sections

\xsubsection{violet}[Short-title]{Title}{Subtitle}
\xsubsection{violet}[Short-title]{Title}{Subtitle}[my-picture]
\xsubsection{violet}[Short-title]{Title}{}

subsection.tex - subsection.pdf

Frames

\begin{frame}{Title}{Subtitle}
  Simple content
\end{frame}

frame.tex - frame.pdf

Picture frame

\begin{xpic}[h]{my-high-picture}
  \bf\color{white}Text
\end{xpic}
\begin{xpic}[w]{my-high-picture}
  \bf\color{white}Text
\end{xpic}
\begin{xpic}{my-high-picture}
  \bf\color{white}Text
\end{xpic}
\begin{xpic}[h]{my-wide-picture}
  \bf\color{white}Text
\end{xpic}
\begin{xpic}[w]{my-wide-picture}
  \bf\color{black}Text
\end{xpic}
\begin{xpic}{my-wide-picture}
  \bf\color{black}Text
\end{xpic}

pic.tex - pic.pdf

Blocks

\begin{frame}{Stacked}
  \begin{block}{First}
    Text
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Second}
    Text
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Third}
    Text
  \end{block}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Adjacent}
  \begin{columns}[t]
    \begin{column}{0.4\textwidth}
      \begin{block}{First}
        Text
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{0.3\textwidth}
      \begin{block}{Second}
        Text
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{0.3\textwidth}
      \begin{block}{Third}
        Text
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
  \end{columns}
\end{frame}

blocks.tex - blocks.pdf

Available color themes

• violet
• grey
• red
• blue
• purple
• green
• yellow
• turquoise

Available options

Simple foot

I don't want to see the title in the footer.

\usepackage[simplefoot]{beamerx}

simplefoot.tex - simplefoot.pdf

Simple head

I don't want the arms in the header.

\usepackage[simplehead]{beamerx}

simplehead.tex - simplehead.pdf

Simple blocks

I wan't simple blocks without decoration.

\usepackage[simplebloc]{beamerx}

simplebloc.tex - simplebloc.pdf