Many thanks for your help. I have finally this structure which corresponds to what I was looking for, both for texts and figures: ------------------- \begin{slide}{Example with text} \vspace{0.72\slideheight}\hspace{0cm}% start at lower left point \rput[bl](0,0){hello} \vspace{-0.72\slideheight}\hspace{0cm} % Back to the upper part of the slide for the usual construction of the slide \begin{itemize} \item 1 \item 2 \end{itemize} \end{slide} ------------------ \begin{slide}{Example with figure} \vspace{0.72\slideheight}\hspace{0cm}% start at lower left point \rput[bl](0.3\slidewidth,0.01\slideheight){\includegraphics[height=0.35\slideheight]{Org.eps}} \vspace{-0.72\slideheight}\hspace{0cm} % Back to the upper part of the slide for the usual construction of the slide \begin{itemize} \item 1 \item 2 \end{itemize} \end{slide} ------------------- Many thanks to both of you -- Valérie Meille