I have noticed that creating outlines behaves rather erratic.

This is the code I use:

var x = 30
var objectHeight = 20
var objectToTextGap = 1

var p = new Path.Rectangle(0, 0, x, objectHeight)

// Place text
var newText = new PointText(new Point(0, 0))

// Assign a string
newText.content = 'some text'

// Choose font
newText.characterStyle.font = app.fonts['OCR A Std']

// Create the outlines
b = newText.createOutline()

// Scale the new outlines to a given ratio of the arbitrary object (in this case based on height)
b.scale((objectHeight / textToObjectRatio) / b.bounds.height)

// Move center of text outlines to match center of object
b.translate(new Point(-(b.bounds.center.x - (x / 2)), -(b.bounds.topLeft.y - objectHeight - objectToTextGap)))

// Remove the original text
newText.remove()

Now, two things happen when I use this code.
#1 - When using a custom made monospaced font I've made the letters in the outlined group change ( ie. 'hej' turned into 'A°B').
#2 - When using another monospaced font such as 'OCR A Std' the spaces between letters became all messed up. This does not seem to happen when using standard fonts.

Could it be that I'm trying to scale a group that is somehow the problem?
If so, how would I create a compound path of all the objects in the group with least effort?

{
OSX 10.6.7
3.2 GHz Intel Core i3
4GB 1333 MHz DDR3

AI CS5 (15.2)

Scriptographer 2.9.072
Java 1.6.0_24
}

Thanks
/Håkan