Hi Chris,
I have found a bug in the new beta engine with anti-aliasing TTF fonts, seems if you use the Think command or the Text command in a GUI, it will not print out the first character. It works fine if you uncheck anti-aliase TTF fonts. Just thought I'd let you know.
For the original discussion, see this (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=40017.0).
It seems to be something specific to that font -- I tried importing a different TTF font and it worked fine.
The AGS font renderer has been known to have problems rendering some fonts, perhaps you could try a different one?
Alright, I'll see how it goes :)
Just so you know Chris, you were right.. it was the font.
Glad you've found an alternate one that works :)