Thanks for your suggestions MidiMagic.

I tried option 1. Placement was very tricky and eventually I gave up on this option.

Unfortunately the image is not solid green.

I had thought about option 3 but prefer to avoid this option.

I ended up using the image as a background and putting each line of text into a span with left padding. Not exactly pretty html but it gets the job done whilst keeping it to 1 image without text in the image.

Don't ask me about alt and title text for the background image though

If anyone is interested I also just found the following url which talks about slicing up the image for curving and wrapping the text around it... [url="http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/raggedfloat/demo.html"]