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Keep font size constant when resizing a group

Migrated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170714
From 2005-05-02 to 2020-04-18 🙀

Summary:

Richk449 wrote...

It would be incredibly useful if there were two switches that were similar to the "stroke width" and "rounded corner" scaling buttons:

  1. when scaling objects, scale the text by the same proportion - if this were not selected, then the font size would stay fixed as the object was scaled. It doesn't have to work very well - if the text placement gets off, that is okay with me.

  2. when scaling objects, keep text aspect ratio fixed - if this were enabled, fonts would not become "distorted" when objects are resized. They would change size, but still look good.

Both of these would be incredibly useful for me, since I use inkscape to make technical slides. I never want the aspect ratio of my fonts to change. Often I want to resize a group of objects slightly, but don't want to change the font size.

Design

this sould be setting inside selector tool image

Migrator's Notes:

  • I just couldn't wrap my pointy head around why someone would request such a thing...what would it serve?...until Rich posted this...

geometry.svg

  • After that SVG was posted, an avalanche of me toos appeared up until 2020-04-18(!). This feature would obviously relieve a lot of headaches for diagram designers.
  • Implementation? Hey, I just migrate 'em.
Edited by Adam Belis
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