Indesign doesn't scale type boxes properly

This has been a major bug for me in indesign for sometime and was hoping would be addressed when upgraded to cc 2014 but problem is still there. when i scale a group of objects the type boxes seem to get ever so slightly smaller which causes text to disappear or flow over to new line break i have to go into every text box and make the box slightly bigger and then it goes back to its original line break. why is this till happening?

It's ".1 reciprocal" I'm not saying anything other than scaling at proportions that forces indesign into a reciprocal number forces it to make a decision to go larger. Are your rulers in general set to points/picas? If it were this means your text frames would be in points/picas - allowing a greater degree in scaling. As you can imagine, it isn't a direct switch from points to mm or inches etc. - so there's some degree of difference between each conversion. And then you're asking a text frame to scale an inaccurate amount, say 37.255% - so it's trying to scale a text frame that's in millimeters - and scale text that's in points by 37.255%, for example.
There will always be some degree of difference a breaking point when using different measurement systems, and even with the same measurement. It's a side affect of scaling groups of text based on the program dealing with different measurements.
It's easy to combat, get into the habit of leaving a tiny bit of room around each text frame.
For the record - scaling things after they've been created is not a good idea, design to the size required. And if you do scale afterwards there is always some degree of fixing that is always required.

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