Reply To: Tips for working with a text black layer?

Wouldn't grouping black text with non-black objects violate the requirement that the entire text layer can be replaced with another?

I think it would be alright to group objects to move them around, provided you ungroup them again and put everything back onto the layer where it belongs when you are done with them.

In case you might forget to do so, it's possible to write a script that checks each and every object, moving all text frames to a layer of their own, and even ungrouping when necessary. (Just don't fiddle-diddle with some layers having Ignore Text Wrap and others don't — now that'd be a recipe for disaster.)