Can we talk about the Figma 'Scale Tool' trick that backfired on a big project?

I was trying to speed up a 50-page deck by scaling a whole frame down at once. I held Shift and dragged the corner, but it messed up ALL my text layers, making them blurry and wrong. I learned that Figma's Scale Tool doesn't just resize things, it actually changes the font size numbers in the properties panel, which is a huge pain to fix. Has anyone found a safe way to resize a whole artboard without breaking the text?

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roberts.jesse1h ago

Saw a tip about using the auto layout constraints to lock text size before scaling. Does that actually work or is it just more trouble?

sam_harris682h ago

Scale the parent frame instead, which keeps your text layers intact.