setting PDF background color

[akwe-xavante]

Hoping someone can help me with a, what I hope is silly question with a simple answer. I've googled for a couple of hours now and I just don't get it and i'm failing to find an answer

All i'm wanting to do is set the background color of the entire page to a specific hex color. I don't want white I would like to set the page color to #FAF8CC to start with, might turn it down a little further

Here is the first few lines of code

my $pdf  = PDF::API2->new(-file => "$SavedAttachment");
$pdf->mediabox(595,842);
my $page = $pdf->page;

my $fnt = $pdf->corefont('Arial',-encode => 'latin1');
my $txt = $page->text;
$txt->textstart;

###### Logo at top center of page
#
my $image_02 = $page->gfx;
my $image_file = $pdf->image_gif("$Logo");
$image_02->image( $image_file, 260,745,72,72 );

###### Add Customer Name and Address
#
$txt->font($fnt, 8);
$txt->translate(25,630);
$txt->fillcolor('black');
$txt->text("$FullCustName");

[Khen1950fx]

Run ths first:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use PDF::API2;

my $file = 'SavedAttachment.pdf';

my $pdf = PDF::API2->new( -file => $file );
$pdf->mediabox( 595, 842 );

my $page = $pdf->page;
my $fnt = $pdf->corefont( 'Arial', -encode => 'latin1' );

my $txt = $page->text;
$txt->textstart;
$txt->font( $fnt, 8 );
$txt->translate( 25, 630 );
$txt->fillcolor('black');
$txt->text("FullCustName");
$pdf->saveas;

exit;

Then try setpdfbackground.pl from the command line:

setpdfbackground.pl -o SavedAttachment.pdf 1 fcd SavedAttachment.pdf

I used fcd because I wanted something neutral and down-to-earth.