TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Graphics background overlays

[biglolbird]

Hi Latex Community,

I'm designing a beamer presentation. It has a graphics as the background for the entire slide show. I wanted the last slide to have a different background graphics, but I couldn't do it. The background is not centered on the slide, and leaves about 1 inch margin to the left instead of covering the whole slide.

My latex file is as follows:

\begin{document}
%\usebackgroundtemplate{
\setbeamertemplate{background}
{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{graphics-1}}
.
.
.
\begin{frame}
\begin{centering}
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{graphics-2}
\end{centering}
\end{frame}

Any suggestions?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi biglolbird,

could you show a minimal working example?
Perhaps the margin is caused by reserved space of a sidebar.

A solution could be using the textpos package. It is mentioned in the beamer user manual 12.8 Positioning Text and Graphics Absolutely.

Stefan

[biglolbird]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for these links. I don't know if the margin is caused by reserved space of a sidebar or a navigation bar. I tried to get rid of sidebar using

\setbeamersize{sidebar width left=0cm}

and navigation bar using

\documentclass[compress]{beamer}

but neither worked. My MWE .tex file, .pdf (using pdflatex), and .png (light pink background) are below.

I also attempted \usepackage[absolute]{textpos} using

\afterpage{
\newpage
\begin{textblock*}
\includegraphics[width=\pagewidth, height=\pageheight]{background.png}
\end{textblock*}
\null
\newpage}

but \afterpage isn't in my latex packages. How do I get it? I'm using texlive on a linux machine.

Thanks!

biglolbird