From: Gregory Brown Date: 2007-11-10T01:10:02+09:00 Subject: Re: question about pdf/writer On Nov 9, 10:10 am, nephish wrote: > Right, thanks Austin, sorry. I did not ask my question very clearly. I > need to be able to make one row of text one color, the next row of > text another color, etc... This i can't find out how to do. All of it > needs to be in the same table. You can get alternating row colors with SimpleTable, but that's about all.. These are the shade_color and shade_color2 attributes. If you have more questions about this or other things you encounter in PDF::Writer, please join our mailing list. I have trouble keeping up on RubyTalk these days :) http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ruby-pdf-discuss Also, as an aside, as of ruport-util 0.9, you might get a lot of love out of Ruport for this kind of thing, if you're willing to poke around a bit. -greg