How do you change the image of a bullet point in LaTeX Beamer
When I use the itemize environment, i.e.
\begin{itemize}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{itemize}
The bullet points are ugly bitmap graphics that have harsh (aliased) edges. I'd like it to be a nice, clean font character or vector graphic
Solution 1:
You can simply set a symbol of your choice. Let me assume you'd like the \checkmark
symbol, just write:
\begin{itemize}
\item[\checkmark] one
\item[\checkmark] two
\item[\checkmark] three
\end{itemize}
Furthermore, if it's too long to write, you can set a new command:
\newcommand{\myitem}{\item[\checkmark]}
and the whole thing becomes:
\begin{itemize}
\myitem one
\myitem two
\myitem three
\end{itemize}
Otherwise, you can use the enumitem
package as stated in the answer below.
For document classes other than beamer, there are two more ways to do the trick:
In the preamble, write:
\def\labelitemi{\checkmark}
If you want to change the symbol in only one itemize
environment, write:
\begin{itemize}
\newcommand{\labelitemi}{\checkmark}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{itemize}
Solution 2:
Probably the best way is to use the beamer template:
\setbeamertemplate{itemize items}{\checkmark}
Solution 3:
So here is the long answer. I found this in the beamer manual. In beamer there are kind of two things you can do. One is to set the "innertheme".
\useinnertheme{circles}
This will have (roughly) the same effect as
\newcommand{\myitem}{\item[\textbullet]}
The other thing you can do is set the template
\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}{\textbullet}
Solution 4:
You can also use a nice image with graphicx:
\usepackage{graphicx}
...
\item[\includegraphics{./images/image.png}]{Text}
Solution 5:
If you \usepackage{enumitem}
you can then then set the label as a parameter
\begin{itemize}[label=\checkmark]
\item ....
\item ...
\end{itemize}
Full documentation is here.