Text on paths cannot be scaled proportionally.

[Designer1]

Text on paths cannot be scaled proportionally. When the path is reduced, e.g. a circular path, the text becomes larger and when it is enlarged, the text becomes smaller.

[walt.farrell]

You should see two handles on the lower right of the object's bounding box. The one that is not attached to the frame is the rescaling handle. Dragging that one will rescale the object and any text proportionately.

[Designer1]

23 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You should see two handles on the lower right of the object's bounding box. The one that is not attached to the frame is the rescaling handle. Dragging that one will rescale the object and any text proportionately.

However, this gives imprecise results. How can I set an exact value such as 10 cm?

[walt.farrell]

54 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

However, this gives imprecise results. How can I set an exact value such as 10 cm?

Other than watching the Transform panel while dragging the handle, I'm not sure. Good question.

[Pauls]

transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, Pauls said:

transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values

But that won't scale the Path Text, too, will it? At least it didn't seem to when I tried.

[Designer1]

3 hours ago, Pauls said:

transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values

This does not work! The text on the path cannot be scaled by entering exact values, e.g. 10 cm.

[GRAFKOM]

You have to click on this seemingly inactive button, and from now on you can enter in the transformation panel - 10cm and the text on the path will increase proportionally.

[Old Bruce]

Thanks for reminding me of that feature @GRAFKOM. I saw it when I first upgraded and thought "This will be so useful." And then I promptly forgot about it, wish I remembered about it a couple of days ago.