Scaling text

Hello,
I have this very simple page with a symbol with rectangle as a background and text which will explain people what to do.
I apply the code from Sarah Hunt to scale my stage depending on the size of the browser window. It works ok. The button and the rectangle scales ok but the text
replaces itself !
When I try to use Responsive scale, the text scales ok but the page behaves on a strange way. Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't.
Thanks for any help.

Hi -
Yes, there are substantial differences between scaling text by resizing by using the wireframe and by changing the text size via the Controls tab for Text.
The use of the Controls Tab settings will produce much higher quality text than resizing via the wireframe method.
This will be more apparent when sizing the text larger, and less apparent when sizing the text smaller - but you should get in the habit of sizing with the Controls as in either case the text produced will be cleaner.
The reason for this is when you are manipulating the wireframe, you are manipulating text that has been rasterized at a particular size, and therefore suffers the same consequences as manipulating a video or still image clip.
When you adjust the Controls for size, you are adjusting +the source+ of the rasterized type - so make the type large via the Controls and the rasterized type will be created larger - as opposed to just stretched larger.
Hope this helps.
MtD

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