At 18:31 -0700 16/12/06, Darrel Tenter wrote: >You have to save the gif from Photoshop and preserve transparency. Then the >text will flow around the image. Illustrator can't preserve the transparency >in a gif.
Drat. Thanks for this clarification. I don't have PhotoShop, so I think I'll have to find another way around the problem... such as the one you (and Art and Mike) have suggested. Many thanks. -- Steve