Publishing animated gif

hi!
I always have this problem when I try to publish an animated
gif. As my clients don´t want swf to send by mail because they
say not everyone has the plugin, I have to do a gif.
But of course it has a less possibilities: it´s a bigger
file, less quality. Two problems:
1- now the text disappears althoght I use character
embedding.
2- although I put 1 repetition (not loop) and put a STOP
inside the flash file, it´s played without stopping!
What can I do? which i the best configuration? for ex.
transparent: opaque. dither: none??? I have to solve it in 2
days!!!
Here are the links:
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/isadoradesign/tarjeta_fiestas_2006.gif
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/isadoradesign/tarjeta_fiestas_2006.swf
thanks a lot.
Isa

Both of these problems could be a result of the limitations of the GIF format. The maximum number of colors in a GIF is 256, often even fewer are used. I'm not sure how those colors are distributed in an animated GIF, since the limited colors might have to be distributed over multiple images. This could result in some serious color shifts could fit everything into a limited color palette.
GIFs can be transparent, but only have one level of transparency (on or off). So, depending on the shape of you image, transparency may work well, but it could also produce jagged edges. To have more control, you might want to export the sequence of images to Photoshop or Fireworks, and render the final version from there.

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