Drawing timeline with tikz

Question

I am trying to draw the following picture in tikz by myself because I need other labels. Is there a smart way of drawing?

Thanks for your answers. :)

Have a look at this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/227149/141947 — BambOo, May 08 '20 at 09:08
Good to hear. Try make your timeline with the proposed solution. If you can't manage it, edit your question and we will provide more specific support — BambOo, May 08 '20 at 09:12

Xandria · Answer 1 · 2020-05-08T09:50:34.143

Thanks to the comment of BambOo, I was able to do it myself. At first the code. It is just slighly a difference of the link above.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,english,reqno,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\usetikzlibrary{chains,positioning,shapes.symbols,fadings,shadows, backgrounds}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.callouts}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.arrows, shadings}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\newcommand\Umbruch[2][3cm]{\begin{varwidth}{#1}\centering#2\end{varwidth}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
    \tikzset{
        arrow/.style={
            draw,
            minimum height=1.5cm,
            minimum width=1cm,
            inner sep=2pt,
            shape=signal,
            signal from=west,
            signal to=east,
            signal pointer angle=110,
            top color=blue!80!green!90!,
            bottom color=blue!30,
            %      fill=blue!50,
            drop shadow,
        }
    }
    \begin{scope}[start chain=going right,node distance=3pt,]
    \foreach \mois / \Smois in {Railroad blocking , Train scheduling , Locomotive assignment , Crew pairing , Crew rostering }
    \node[name=\mois, arrow,on chain, xscale=.92] {\Umbruch{\small{\Smois}}};
    \end{scope}
    \end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Compiling this code should look like this:

The best answer, the one you propose yourself ! – BambOo May 08 '20 at 10:02 — BambOo, May 08 '20 at 10:02

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '20 at 11:10

The small variation of OP answer (+1):

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,english,reqno,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{chains,
                positioning,
                shadows, shapes.symbols}
%---------------- show page layout. don't use in a real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[
node distance=2mm,
 start chain = going right,
arrow/.style = {shape=signal,
                signal from=west, signal to=east,
                signal pointer angle=110,
                draw, font=\small, 
                minimum height=13mm, inner xsep=5pt, align=left,
                top color=blue!80!green!80, bottom color=blue!30,
                drop shadow,
                on chain
                }
                        ]
\foreach \Smois in {Railroad\\ blocking , Train\\ scheduling , 
                    Locomotive\\ assignment , Crew\\ pairing , 
                    Crew\\ rostering }
\node[arrow] {\Smois};
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

which produce:

(red lines indicates text area borders)

and tikzpicture's preamble, which use in above MWE replicate image shown in OP question:

node distance= 0mm,
 start chain = going right,
arrow/.style = {shape=signal,
                signal from=west, signal to=east,
                signal pointer angle=110,
                draw, font=\small, 
                minimum height=13mm, inner xsep=5pt, align=left,
                fill=gray!30, outer sep=0pt,
                on chain
                }

Thank you very much, this is also very nice – Xandria May 09 '20 at 14:13 — Xandria, May 09 '20 at 14:13

Drawing timeline with tikz

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