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No no no... .gifs are bad. Don't do that.

I'm still not EXACTLY sure what you need but I have a pretty good idea what you're trying to do. I don't think you're going to be able to pull the pattern in the way that you want to. What I would probably suggest is that you do one of these things:

1. Create a document and fill it with your pattern and then save that as TIFF and import that into Illustrator. This will make your Illustrator file large.

2. Create a pattern in Illustrator instead, this will give you more flexability.

3. Create a document in Photoshop that is the exact size of the patter and place one piece of the repeating pattern in it, then save it as a TIFF. Place this TIFF in an Illustrator document (make sure it's embedded) and then create a symbol out of it. Then you can have as many as you want without the major size increase.

I'll see if there is a way to work more cross app later, but I'm doubting it since AI doesn't use the same kind of library system for it's presets that Photoshop does.

Anyone else have any ideas?