Page Layout ⇒ beamer | Change Spacing between Frame Title and Content

[4ndre]

Hi,

I work quite a long time with LaTeX and the beamer class, even created my own template for work. But this problem I can't solve. It looks ridiculous, if the page is full, sometime exceeds the space, but there is about 1cm space between title and content. It's still remaining, even if I remove the frame title (of course the frame title space becomes available, but still there is a spacing between header and content). The biggest problem is, it seems to be identical for all templates. Therefore I have no clue, where to start. Can anyone tell me, where I can define the frame title (I found it in inner and outer sometimes) with the spacing after (which I never found)?

Thanks in advance!
André

[justdeath]

This is theme specific. Consider this:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usetheme{Madrid}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{text}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\blindtext
\end{frame}
\end{document}

There is very small space between title and content. Now comment out the \frametitle. Everything is full again.

Now change to \usetheme{Rochester}. The space for title is bigger than Madrid. Even if you do not have title, space is still reserved for it.

Nikolay

[on4aa]

I experience exactly the same problem.
I posted a crude solution over here.
I am still looking for the exact name of that space though.

[jatin]

Hi, just found this really easy fix, just add \vspace{} after \frametitle:

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\frametitle{Model evaluation - Temperature}
\vspace{-15.5pt}
% add whatever here, text, or figs bla bla

[womullan]

I have added this vspace to many of my slides and looked several times now for a proper generic solution for all slides ! I finally figured it out

It seems the correct way to do this is to add this before the begin document

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\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vspace*{-1.4cm}}{\vspace*{0.2cm}}

the first vspace moves the Frame title the second moves the text coming after the frame title so this allows me to move the title up or down and fix the space between title and body in one go !

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi womullan,

welcome to the forum, and thank you for telling us your solution!

Stefan

[mkcons]

Was having the same problem. In case it can help anyone, I was able to fix it by modifying the beamerouterthemedefault.sty file.

Look for the frametitle definition and change the vskip to lower the title and add a vspace at the end to move the content upwards (see comments below).

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\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{default}[1][left]
{%
  \ifbeamercolorempty[bg]{frametitle}{}{\nointerlineskip}%
  \@tempdima=\textwidth%
  \advance\@tempdima by\beamer@leftmargin%
  \advance\@tempdima by\beamer@rightmargin%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=0.3cm,#1,wd=\the\@tempdima]{frametitle}
    \usebeamerfont{frametitle}%
    \vbox{}\vskip-1ex%
    \if@tempswa\else\csname beamer@fte#1\endcsname\fi%
    \strut\insertframetitle\par%
    {%
      \ifx\insertframesubtitle\@empty%
      \else%
      {\usebeamerfont{framesubtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{framesubtitle}\strut\insertframesubtitle\par}%
      \fi
    }%
    \vskip-3ex% Added this to lower the title
    \if@tempswa\else\vskip-.3cm\fi%
  \end{beamercolorbox}%
  \vspace*{-3.5cm} % Added this to move the content upwards
}