Current Preamble
I want to wrap the top part of my document with a colored banner, spanning the entire page width and to the very top of the document. Here is my preamble and title section:
documentclass[a0, landscape]{a0poster}
\usepackage{multicol} % This is so we can have multiple columns of text side-by-side
\columnsep=100pt % This is the amount of white space between the columns in the poster
\columnseprule=0pt % This is the thickness of the black line between the columns in the poster
\usepackage[svgnames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{path}} % Location of the graphics files
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}
\begin{document}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% POSTER HEADER
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% The header is divided into three boxes:
% The first is 55% wide and houses the title, subtitle, names and university/organization
% The second is 25% wide and houses contact information
% The third is 19% wide and houses a logo for your university/organization or a photo of you
% The widths of these boxes can be easily edited to accommodate your content as you see fit
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.55\linewidth}
\veryHuge \color{BrickRed} \textbf{Title of Poster} \color{Black}\\ % Title
\huge \textbf{Authors}\\ % Author(s)
\huge University\\ % University/organization
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.25\linewidth}
\color{DarkSlateGray}\Large \textbf{Contact Information:}\\
University \\
Address\\\\
Phone: (800)-999-9999\\
Email: email@domain.com\\
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.19\linewidth}
\begin{flushright}
\includegraphics[width=20cm]{"/Users/hgducharme/Documents/School/Projects/Calculus II Honors/Poster Board/figures/logo"}
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{1cm} % A bit of extra whitespace between the header and poster content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
First attempt at solution:
I have tried to use method #2 from this answer regarding the same problem. With all else being same, my code changes to the below block and the result is the image below.
%%% Packages %%%
\newcommand{\postertitle}[2] % Poster title
{
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [purple,line width=0.2cm,rounded corners=0.2cm,fill=cyan] (-0.5\textwidth,-4)--
(-0.5\textwidth,4)--(0.5\textwidth,4)--(0.5\textwidth,-4)--cycle;
\draw (0,1)node[anchor=center,rotate=0]{\bfseries \sffamily \fontsize{43}
{0}\selectfont {}{#1}};
\draw (0,-2)node[anchor=center,rotate=0]{\bfseries \sffamily \fontsize{33}
{0}\selectfont {}{#2}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\vspace{0.015\textheight}
}
\begin{document}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% POSTER HEADER
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\postertitle{
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.55\linewidth}
Title section
\end{minipage}
}
.
Second Attempt At Solution
I also tried to wrap the section in a color box but that did not work either.
\colorbox{Grey!70}{\parbox{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}{%
%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.55\linewidth}
Title Section
\end{minipage}
}}
.
In the second picture, I like where the bottom of the color box ends. However, I would just like for it to expand the page length, and for the top of the color box to extend up to the top of the page. How can I accomplish this?
Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to help.
Best Answer
By using tikzpicture (remove showframe to see the header like you want ) :