So I'm trying to make a standard a1 poster using the a0 document class.
This is my code so far:
\documentclass[poster, a1]{a0poster}
%%%Load packages
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,bottom=0cm,top=0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{headingcol}{rgb}{1,1,1}
\definecolor{boxcol}{rgb}{0.408,0.157,0.376}
\fboxsep=1cm
\setlength{\columnsep}{2cm}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@maketitle{%
\null
{
\color{headingcol}\sffamily\veryHuge %Set title font and colour
\@title \par}%
\vskip 0.6em%
{
\color{white}\sffamily\large %Set author font and colour
\lineskip .5em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{l}%
\@author
\end{tabular}\par}%
\vskip 1cm
\par
}
\makeatother
\title{TEXT HERE}
\author{NAME \\ Supervisor: NAME}
\begin{document}
\hspace{-3cm} %Align with edge of page, not margin
\colorbox{boxcol}{ %Coloured banner across top
\begin{minipage}{1189mm} %Minipage for title contents
\maketitle
\end{minipage}}
\vspace{1cm}
\begin{multicols}{4}
\section*{Hello}
jkboub\\kglhvkjb\\liugiub;ub\\lylyvjhb\\ktftuyvuyvyuvluf\\lubaub
\columnbreak
\section*{Hello}
\columnbreak
hello
\columnbreak
hello
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
and yet the outcome is this:
Why is there some text in the second column, which should be continuing in the first?

\begin{multicols*}{4}...\end{multicols*}which doesn't attempt to balance the columns. – Werner Feb 01 '17 at 22:38\columnbreaks, since you don't need to switch to the next column. – AboAmmar Feb 01 '17 at 22:44