[Latex-Beamer] Centering the title page

[Bernd Muent]

Hi together,
when I use a theme like Warzaw the title page:

\frame[plain]{
\titlepage
}

is perfectly in the centre.

But when I use a them like Palo alto, it is to far on the right hand
side because there is this navigation column on the left side.

I did not find out how to set the margins to "0" on a \frame[plain] page
or to use another theme on this title page.

Thanks for any hints for exact centering of the title page, Bernd

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[Ulrich M. Schwarz]

Bernd Muent <kon...@bmservices.de> writes:

> Hi together,
> when I use a theme like Warzaw the title page:
>
> \frame[plain]{
> \titlepage
> }
>
> is perfectly in the centre.
>
> But when I use a them like Palo alto, it is to far on the right hand
> side because there is this navigation column on the left side.
>
> I did not find out how to set the margins to "0" on a \frame[plain]
> page or to use another theme on this title page.
>
> Thanks for any hints for exact centering of the title page, Bernd

Yeah, beamer relies on geometry, and that is quite insistent not to
work within the document. Well, if you can't play fair, you have to
cheat:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{PaloAlto}

\title{Getting the most out of your page}
\author{Ulrich M. Schwarz}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}%[plain]
\maketitle
\end{frame}

\makeatletter
\begin{frame}[plain]
\hspace*{-\beamer@leftsidebar}%
\advance\textwidth by \beamer@leftsidebar\relax
\beamer@leftsidebar=\z@
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}\par%
\maketitle
\end{minipage}
\end{frame}
\makeatother

\begin{frame}[plain]
\maketitle
\end{frame}

\end{document}

HTH
Ulrich
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