Works for me:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use 5.012;
use warnings;

use PDF::API2;
use PDF::Table;

my $pdftable = new PDF::Table;
my $pdf      = new PDF::API2(-file => 'test.pdf');
my $page     = $pdf->page;

# Table data, two columns
my $scalar_song = [
    [ '$ Sigils to the left of me',    'Arrows to the right ->' ],
    [ '$self->here',                'Stuck in the \[] with you' ]
];

my $col_props = [
    {   
        font       => $pdf->corefont("Courier-Bold"),
        width      => 250,
        font_color => 'blue',
    },{ 
        font       => $pdf->corefont("Courier-Bold"),
        width      => 250,
        justify    => 'right',
        font_color => 'green',
    }
];

$pdftable->table($pdf, $page, $scalar_song, 
    -column_props => $col_props,
    -start_y      => 750,
    -start_h      => 300,
    -padding      => 10,
    -x            => 50,
);

$pdf->saveas();

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This generated a .pdf that had two columns of equal width, with the expected font, color, and justification settings. From what I can tell, PDF::Table seems to like leading hyphens on its top-level call, but not the column_props, but the examples in the documentation don't reflect that. Perhaps that is the issue?

In reply to Re: PDF::Table seems to ignore column properties when there are but two columns by rjt
in thread PDF::Table seems to ignore column properties when there are but two columns by ted.byers

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