1. A computer program comprising a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for scaling composite shapes for an operator display in a process control system for use in a process plant, the method comprising: displaying a composite shape that graphically illustrates an entity within the process plant, the composite shape including one or more sub-elements, each sub-element including one or more unscaled parameters, each unscaled parameter including one or more scaling parameters, wherein each scaling parameter defines a resizing behavior of a corresponding sub-element; resizing the composite shape in one or more dimensions; calculating a scaling factor for each resized dimension; and applying one or more scaling factors to each unscaled parameter associated with a scaling parameter.