On Sunday 03 May 2009, René Dudfield wrote: > hi, > > what are the permissions of the font file? Maybe something weird is > going on there? Bingo. the default font was set to 700, set it to 644 and it worked. Sounds like a pygame installation issue, but then if it is surely someone else would have spotted it by now? Pete -- Peter Chant http://www.petezilla.co.uk