I would like to remove the slide count (e.g., SLIDE_NUMBER / TOTAL_SLIDES
) from the footer (footline) of a Beamer presentation, without removing the footer entirely. I am using the Boadilla theme, which uses the infolines
outer theme. In the beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty
file, we find the following definition for the footline:
\defbeamertemplate*{footline}{infolines theme}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor~~(\insertshortinstitute)
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
I need to essentially redefine this outer theme such that it doesn't have the \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
in it, or otherwise define a new outer theme that inherits everything else from the infolines theme. How can I do this?
Related question: How to Remove Footers of LaTeX Beamer Templates?
If you like you can simply change the file beameroutertheminfolines.sty
which might be not that of a good idea. So instead you simply take the code of the footline into your .tex file and delete the line for the frame numbers or, as i did, simply turn it into a comment. So you copy the exact part from beameroutertheminfolines.sty
into your .tex file:
\documentclass{beamer}
%#comment out the Boadilla theme and uses only the header bar
%\usetheme[]{Boadilla}
\usetheme[secheader]{Boadilla}
%#make sure to change this part, since it is predefined
%\defbeamertemplate*{footline}{infolines theme}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor~~(\insertshortinstitute)
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
%#turning the next line into a comment, erases the frame numbers
%\insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}