I'm probably in the best position to debug the crash in DocumentBase , but this glitch prevents me from reaching it. Here is more information. I am using Cygwin . It comes with Java, ant and everything. I added the line newNotify (fontPath); just before the one that displays the not found message. The font path was correct. However, when I pressed OK I was put back in the console window with a cursor and no prompt. It is actually the Notify class that is failing. Next I tried the old BrailleBlaster. No problem. There is something in newdesign that causes the failure. Incidentally, if I could get to the crash in DocumentBase I would use Notify to display the paths to the various files, particularly to the configuration file. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities