I am trying to create a graph with GD::Graph::hbars ; My issue is with the length of the label text in the vertical axis. I would like to break up each label into 2 lines, but there seems to be no option to do that. (I tried inserting a \n in the label string, but that just puts in a strange character in the final graph) In the piece of code below, I want each label in the vertical axis to break after either 'Vision 3D' or 'Core 100'. The picture output by the code below is http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1172/v3d_usb_perf.gif ; Any suggestions towards helping convert the currently ugly graph into a viewable one would be deeply appreciated :) 
use strict;
use GD::Text ;
use GD::Graph::hbars ;
use GD::Graph::colour;

my @data = (
["Vision 3D NEC USB 3.0","Vision 3D Fresco Logic USB 3.0","Vision 3D N
+EC USB 2.0","Core 100 NEC USB 3.0"],
# Read benchmark
[93.2, 84.8, 29.8, 80.5],
# Write benchmark
[77.1, 83.7, 23.2, 73],
);

my @names = qw/v3d_usb_perf/;
my @dim = (640,480);
for my $my_graph (GD::Graph::hbars->new(@dim))
{
    my $name = shift @names;
    print STDERR "Processing $name\n";

    $my_graph->set(
        t_margin => 15,
        b_margin => 15,
        l_margin => 15,
        r_margin => 15,
        x_label => '',
        y_label => 'Transfer Bandwidth (MB/s)',
        title => 'Average USB Transfer Rates in ASRock HTPCs (MB/s)',

        y_max_value => 100,
        y_tick_number => 5,
        y_label_skip => 1,
        y_tick_offset => 1,
        line_width => 1,
        bar_spacing => 2,
        show_values => 1,
        borderclrs => [ qw(black) ],
        # bgclr => 'gray',
        shadow_depth => 1,
        bargroup_spacing => 50,
        accent_treshold => 200,
        transparent => 0,
        box_axis => 0,
    );
    $my_graph->set( dclrs => [ qw(lblue lgreen) ] );
    $my_graph->set_legend(qw(Read Write));
    $my_graph->set_title_font(   GD::Font->Giant );
    $my_graph->set_x_label_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->set_y_label_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->set_legend_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->set_x_axis_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->set_y_axis_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->set_values_font( GD::Font->MediumBold );
    $my_graph->plot(\@data);
    save_chart($my_graph, $name);
}

sub save_chart
{
    my ($chart, $name) = @_; 
    local(*OUT);
    my $ext = $chart->export_format;
    open(OUT, ">$name.$ext") or 
        die "Cannot open $name.$ext for write: $!";
    binmode OUT;
    print OUT $chart->gd->$ext();
    close OUT;
}

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