diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/brush.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/brush.rs
index 58dac58c92..1180e42fa9 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/brush.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/brush.rs
@@ -291,9 +291,16 @@ pub(super) fn draws_as(draft: &BrushDraft, settings: &PathBrush, bending: &HashM
                 && d.modes() == c.modes()
         }
         (DraftKind::Art { settings: Some(d), art: name, .. }, PathBrush::Art(s)) => {
-            drawn(d).iter().zip(drawn(s)).all(|(a, b)| close(*a, b))
-                && art_options(s).is_some()
-                && bending.get(name).is_some_and(|length| opens_live(d, *length) && opens_live(s, *length))
+            let (dd, ds) = (drawn(d), drawn(s));
+            art_options(s).is_some()
+                && bending.get(name).is_some_and(|length| {
+                    // The guides match as lengths and as fractions of the art's length, so they differ
+                    // neither on short art nor near the ends of long art.
+                    dd.iter().zip(ds).all(|(a, b)| close(*a, b))
+                        && [11, 12].iter().all(|&i| close(dd[i] / length, ds[i] / length))
+                        && opens_live(d, *length)
+                        && opens_live(s, *length)
+                })
         }
         _ => false,
     }
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
index 2701cb6fec..8d20db92d1 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
@@ -10650,6 +10650,10 @@ fn an_art_brushed_path_the_brush_cant_draw_keeps_its_drawn_look() {
     // The brush's guides leave art between them, and the path's, close to them, leave none.
     let (def, style) = ribbon_with(&[(10, "1"), (11, "20"), (12, "19.99")]);
     cases.push(("path guides close to the brush's that leave no art between them", def, style.replace("19.99 /", "20 /")));
+    // On art 0.01 long, a guide at 0.0035 is 35% of the way along it, and the brush's at 0.003 is 30%.
+    let (def, style) = ribbon_with(&[(10, "1"), (11, "0.003"), (12, "0.002")]);
+    let short = format!("%AI8_BeginBrushPattern\n(Ribbon art)\n0 A\n0 g\n{}f\n%AI8_EndBrushPattern\n", rect_path(0.0, 0.0, 0.01, 4.0));
+    cases.push(("path guides elsewhere on short art", def.replace(&lopsided_art("Ribbon art"), &short), style.replace("0.003 /", "0.0035 /")));
     let mut wrong = vec![];
     for (why, def, style) in cases {
         let r = read_ok(&format!("{def}{style}{}", layer(&brushed_path())));