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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 11-4-21 on page 776.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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\documentclass{ttctbeamer}
% graphic converted to gray in book

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Malmoe} \usecolortheme{dove}
\useoutertheme{sidebar}
\StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
 \frametitle{A demonstration of beamer boxes}
 \setbeamercolor{postit}{fg=black,bg=yellow}
 \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=1em,wd=5cm]{postit}
   this is a \texttt{beamercolorbox}
 \end{beamercolorbox}
 \setbeamercolor{headerCol}{fg=black,bg=lightgray}
 \setbeamercolor{bodyCol}{fg=white,bg=gray}
 \begin{beamerboxesrounded}[upper=headerCol,%
        lower=bodyCol,shadow=true]{Example}
  \texttt{beamerboxesrounded}\\
  with a shadow\\ and some nonsense text \ldots\\
 \end{beamerboxesrounded}
\end{frame}
\end{document}