Sorry to be a bit dim if there is a simple answer to this…
But ive been looking at the demos for some examples of displaying text on the screen however i cannot seem to find the demo relating to the TextRenderer Test shown on the https://jogl-demos.dev.java.net/ page… could someone direct me to where i can find this?
check out this thread if you cant find any demos in the CVS like me:
You found it, right? The TextRenderer demos are in the demos.j2d package in the jogl-demos workspace.
Yep found it, i didnt look under the 2d stuff, which thinking about it should have been a good place to start 
I got it working from that thread you had (the one linked previously)!