Hi again 
built the fontconvert utility two days ago and it's been working fine, go to use it today and I get the following error message
D:\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit_GFX_Library\fontconvert>fontconvert AGENCYB.TTF 10 >AgencyB.h
Font load error: 1
that is the correct command isn't it? I've done a search on that error message and I appear to be the only person in the world with this problem 
TIA
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