Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Creating posters: fbox in tikz?

[vario]

Hi to everybody,

for my next poster I wanted to use LaTeX in combination with TikZ. I got a poster test layout, that uses \fbox to create nice boxes around individual sections.
To put arrows between the boxes and rounded corners I tried to replace \fbox with something similar in TikZ. Unfortunately it works only for a single paragraph, whereas fbox is fine with lots of text. Is there any way to fix this or an even better method to create nice boxes?

Thanks for any help!
Alexander

Here is the example:

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\documentclass{a0poster}
\usepackage[english,french,german]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{blindtext}


\newcommand*{\tikzbox}[1]{%box width,top color,bottom color,content
\par
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[rectangle,rounded corners,shade,top color=blue!20,bottom
color=blue!50,inner xsep=10pt,inner ysep=10pt,text width=\columnwidth,text
justified,anchor=south]{#1};
\end{tikzpicture}
\vspace{10pt}
}

\fboxrule10pt
\fboxsep10pt
\long\def\bluebox#1{{%
   \advance\columnwidth-2\fboxrule
   \advance\columnwidth-2\fboxsep
   \noindent\fcolorbox{blue}{white}{\parbox{\columnwidth}{#1}}}
   \vskip2ex}
   
\begin{document}
    \title{\veryHuge This is a great poster title}
    
    \author{Herr Münchhausen
    \\[.25em]
    \emph{Max \& Moritz Institute for the Research of everything, 
    Bielefeld, Germany}%
    }    
    \maketitle
    \thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{multicols}{3}

	\bluebox{
	\section*{Introduction}
		\blindtext
		
		\blindtext
	}
		
	\tikzbox{
	\section*{Methods}
		\blindtext
% with the next two lines not commented out it breaks
%			
%		\blindtext
	}

\end{multicols}

\end{document}

[localghost]

Defining a \parbox as the node might help.

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\node[%
  rectangle,
  rounded corners,
  shade,
  top color=blue!20,
  bottom color=blue!50,
  inner xsep=10pt,
  inner ysep=10pt,
  text width=\columnwidth,
  text justified,
  anchor=south
]{\parbox[t]{\linewidth}{#1}};

Best regards
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Alexander,

you could use the beamerposter package with its TikZ boxes.

Stefan