You’re absolutely correct. In fact in later versions of InDesign you don’t even need to ungroup… just double click the group to isolate the components and resize them.

This blog-post was written in context of a presentation I held at a conference, in which I also showcased the plug-in that I’m focusing on in this write-up
Especially for shapes that only have one, two or three rounded corners, this plug-in will cause the text frame to automatically increase in size AND take all related objects with it… thereby retaining the structure of the design.

Of course InDesign CS5 makes all of this even easier again with Live Corner Options

1) You create one object and another text object above.
2) You apply corner options to the first object and perhaps even a background colour
3) Align your text object accordingly to your needs above the background object
4) Group both the objects and you are done!

5) If you need to adjust settings to a specific object then just ungroup, make the settings, and then regroup again.

When you change the size of the text object the cornered background object will follow

The Inset Spacing value is always set on a Text Frame, you can not disable it, but you can amend the settings.

To ‘release’ text inset, you select the Text Frame, then choose Object > Text Frame Options and set the value to ’0′.

Cari