Photoshop CS2 - Text tool doesnt work

[Mithrandir]

Never mind, I'm always looking for ages for a way to fix things, then I post for help and the next minute I find the solution.

*Deletemeifyouplease*

[Mithrandir]

Part II :

something weird is happening.. when I try to type I have to set the size to a ridiculous amount :

Century Gothic 21474836,47 pt to make it show up, why is that?

I can't even change it to that because the value has to be between 0 and 1200, so I have to type in a new document, copy&paste it to my original document and then it says 21474836,47 pt, and when I try to alter it , CS2 automaticly changes it to 1200, which means it dissappears...

[caravel]

What page size and units are you using? I sounds like you might be working on a huge workspace size for some reason or other.

[LeftEyeNine]

What page size and units are you using? I sounds like you might be working on a huge workspace size for some reason or other.

Ditto. Your document may be one with a very high resolution such as 300 dpi, whereas while copy-pasting a text from 300-dpi document to a normal one like 74 dpi, you may be getting ridiculous size.

[Tamur]

The problem I usually have is the opposite -- 1 ppi on document open, but 300pt text shows up as very tiny hen scratches. CS2 seems to have horrendous default settings for DPI and pixel aspect ratio when opening documents. Hopefully this is an annoyance Adobe will fix with CS3 (not that I'll know for a while).

At any rate, LEN and Cambyses are definitely right, it's all down to the dpi/ppi setting you use.