Comment 4 for bug 170714

Nice to see that this is on the wishlist. 5 years is a long time.

I also have technical drawings (x-y plots) that need to be scaled to suit, where I want the text position (anchor point?) to be moved with the rest of the drawing, but the text shape and size to remain as it is.

For simplicity, and in the hope that it can be done quickly, the first thing to manage is a simple switch for text while transforming: "move and scale text with transform" / "move but don't scale text with transform".

Inkscape shouldn't really worry about 'intelligent scaling' of text (example given above involving linespacing, kerning, etc) in my opinion.