Scaling text on a path as part of large complex group?

[Otto Manuel]

Hi,

 I have a grouped multi layer object that I prepared and now that I am trying to shrink it into another document and may use it as symbol. When I do so, some text which I have on a curved path starts crawling along the path and loses its orientation etc.

 I know I can change the text to a curve, but then its not text any longer, and I would like to keep the lettering editable as text in the new document.

 Is there some check box, perhaps analogous to the "scale stroke when resizing" check box that I may learn to use?

 Thank you.

[h_d]

With simple groups you can use the external resizing handle at the bottom right-hand corner, in combination with the shift key to maintain proportions, and the text in the group will scale and remain editable:

This is in Designer, and a group of just two objects (text on a path, and a rectangle). I don't know how well it will scale to more complex groups.

[Otto Manuel]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I was hoping to use the size dialog box to type in an exact size, and have not found a way to do that without having to explicitly select the text and reduce its letter set size after the group resize. If the drag method works maybe I can adapt to using it, but I would greatly prefer to use the parameter dialog and type an exact size in.

Maybe there is a way?

Thank you.