OT -- generating colored-text PDFs via perl

[Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

i tried
	apt-get install libpdf-api2-perl
which didn't find any such module to install, of course,
so i nabbed it via "perl -MCPAM -e 'shell'" instead...

OFF TOPIC --

this is debian-land, i realize -- but i'm hoping some of you
knowledgeable folks can point me to the right group or e-list:

i'm trying to generate pdf's, using perl, outputting file-folder
labels with COLORED TEXT. (lastname teal, location blue, etc)

	perl
	generating pdfs
	with colored text

so far i've rubbed my eyeballs over PDF::Report and PDF::API2::*
and Text::PDF and seem to have missed it. i've got the
PDF::Report::drawPieGraph to work, but the only colors are in
the slices, not in the legend text. i copied that function and
(hoping to colorize the legend text) altered it thus:

    foreach my $nbr (0 .. $#perc) {
      $self->addRawText($rLabels->[$nbr], $left+$colorblocksize+3,$
                        $pos-$colorblocksize,
# specify color, just as the manual sez:
$clr[$cnt]);
      $self->shadeRect($left+1, $pos, $left+1+$colorblocksize,$
                       $pos-$colorblocksize, $clr[$cnt++]);$$$$
      $pos-=$fontsize;
    }$

to no avail. probably a bug? so i also tried the brute-force-and
-awkwardness approach:

    foreach my $nbr (0 .. $#perc) {
# try a color for the following text:
$gfx->fillcolor($clr[$cnt]);
      $self->addRawText($rLabels->[$nbr], $left+$colorblocksize+3,$
                        $pos-$colorblocksize);$
# do the fill
$gfx->fill;
      $self->shadeRect($left+1, $pos, $left+1+$colorblocksize,$
                       $pos-$colorblocksize, $clr[$cnt++]);$$$$
      $pos-=$fontsize;
    }$

no good.

obviously my understanding falls short...

google.com/groups does bring up some newsgroup hits, but none
seem to pertain to coloring actual text streams.

pointers welcome.

-- 
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
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