# phpman > perldoc > Pod::Text::Color

## 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.