hallo david, > To clarify the problem again: > Imagine you have a photo of a steeple of a church that covers the whole page > (imagine you are writing an article about church architecture and on on the > first page of that article you want to have a nice photo). Now the sky on > that photo is very light so you can put text on it. The steeple how ever is > dark and text wouldn't be visible on it. So you want the text to flow around > the steeple, but be on top of the sky. As sky and steeple are the same > picture, the text obviously has to be in the level above the picture, because > otherwise it is hidden behind the sky. The only way to make the text flow > seem like it flows around the steeple is by flowing it around another, > invisible object.
in that case you change the form of the text frame to match the part of sky you want to write onto... i guess it's much more straightforward than to define a contourline on the part you don't want to overwrite... there may be cases where this approach won't work, but -- most of the time -- this is the solution to your problem... ciao a.l.e
