Now that I have a slight handle on UTF-8 text (Thanks!). Is there a way to have Kepler load a 2 color (black and white) TIFF image? I see that it uses java.awt.ImageIcon to create a java.awt.Image, but that only supports JPG, GIF, and PNG (in Java 1.6). Is there anyway to use the JAI library to get more image format support? -- Matt