Outline Object Bug

None of those new features addresses this specific problem. The problem is that the bounding box for text is not aligned to the text. If you measure this selection, it will be very different than after you create outlines from the text.  Therefore, you can not simply type a 5 in a scaling dialog box.  Also think about this.  Imagine that you have a rectangle and this text.  Imagine that you aligned the first "T" with the left edge of the rectangle, but the width of the rectangle is greater than the width of the text.  So, in order to make them the same width, you grab the right corner of the text then manually scale to the right until the width of the text matches the width of the rectangle.  That won't work because the text is not anchored by the T, it's anchored at the the corner of the transform box.  So as you manually scale the text, the whole text is actually going to move down, or down and to the right.

When you use Outline Object, the bounding box of the text is precisely matched to the text so you can do this exercise easily, but you still can't just type the a number in the scale box because Outline Object has it's own bugs.  If you know that the rectangle is exactly 5" wide, you should be able to just select the text and type 5. The result will be 4.9516 or something if outline object is applied to the text.  If outline object is not applied to the text, then the measurement reflects the text's bounding box which is very different than the actual text.  And manually scaling also uses the text's bounding box so that also doesn't work.  The new features that address snapping to gliphs is fine but do not address this particular problem. The way this problem can be resolved is if Adobe resolves how the text does not match it's bounding box, or Adobe fixes the issues related to Outline Object.