So I found out that if you group together some text and a path with a stroke wider than the text, and you make it smaller by dragging the corner handles, the text will get weirdly squished. I looked in the Transform Dialog and even the XML Editor but I couldn't find any kind of transform that could have affected the text. Do you have any ideas? To clarify, the "Scale stroke width with object" option is turned off.

Thanks.

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if you group together some text and a path with a stroke wider than the text, and you make it smaller by dragging the corner handles...

What does "it" in the statement refer to? The path, the text, or the group?

The group.

You're right. I guess that's because preserving the stroke width and not preserving the stroke length doesn't really work when you scale down enough. Also, it's not just text objects that gets deformed, it's any object grouped with the path.

This is a condition of scale transforms on groups. Relief can sometimes be achieved by ungrouping, then regrouping. 

Scaling a group seems to apply a "rubber sheet" algorithm to strokes, but not to fills. Strokes parallel to the stretch direction are thinned and perpendicular strokes are thickened. I don't know why, but here's an example. Scaling a clone preserves the perpendicular parallel stroke width.