# info > Pod::Text::Color

## [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown)::[Color(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Color/3perl/markdown)Perl Programmers Reference [GuidePod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/GuidePod%3A%3AText/markdown)::[Color(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Color/3perl/markdown)

## NAME
       [Pod::Text::Color](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3AColor/markdown) - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text

## SYNOPSIS
           use [Pod::Text::Color](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3AColor/markdown);
           my $parser = [Pod::Text::Color](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3AColor/markdown)->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);

           # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
           $parser->parse_from_filehandle;

           # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
           $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');

## DESCRIPTION
       [Pod::Text::Color](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3AColor/markdown) is a simple subclass of [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown) that highlights
       output text using ANSI color escape sequences.  Apart from the color,
       it in all ways functions like [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown).  See [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown) for details and
       available options.

       [Term::ANSIColor](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Term%3A%3AANSIColor/markdown) is used to get colors and therefore must be installed
       to use this module.

## BUGS
       This is just a basic proof of concept.  It should be seriously expanded
       to support configurable coloration via options passed to the
       constructor, and pod2text should be taught about those.

## AUTHOR
       Russ Allbery <<rra@cpan.org>>.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2018-2019 Russ Allbery
       <<rra@cpan.org>>

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

## SEE ALSO
       [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown), [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown)

       The current version of this module is always available from its web
       site at <<https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>>.  It is also
       part of the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.

perl v5.34.0                      2026-06-23           [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown)::[Color(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Color/3perl/markdown)