diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
index 8dd08c9b5..d139efe64 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
                 view_moved: None,
                 hover_cursor: None,
                 presented: None,
+                opening_fit: None,
                 panes: Default::default(),
                 windows: crate::doc_windows::Windows::new(known),
             },
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/caches.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/caches.rs
index 1bb731ca8..a9211eccf 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/caches.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/caches.rs
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ pub struct CanvasCache {
     /// In Presentation Mode, the canvas rect the active artboard was last fitted to: it is fitted
     /// again when the rect changes (the window going full screen).
     pub presented: Option<egui::Rect>,
+    /// The canvas a document's opening view was fitted to, with the view the fit gave. The window's
+    /// layout can still move the canvas's edges over the next frames, so until the view is moved or
+    /// the user acts, the opening view is fitted again when the canvas changes ([`canvas::show`]).
+    pub opening_fit: Option<canvas::ViewKey>,
     /// Window › Arrange › Tile: the renders the panes of the other documents draw.
     pub panes: canvas::Panes,
     /// Window › Arrange › Float in Window: what the floating document windows keep between frames.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index 0793ac9e0..19244247d 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -186,6 +186,36 @@ fn view_rects(app: &VectorcraftApp, outer: egui::Rect, ppp: f32) -> (egui::Rect,
     (full, rect.round_to_pixels(ppp))
 }
 
+/// Whether the user pressed a button or a key, typed, scrolled or zoomed in this frame: the
+/// opening fit stops following the canvas then ([`crate::caches::CanvasCache::opening_fit`]).
+fn acted(i: &egui::InputState) -> bool {
+    i.pointer.any_pressed()
+        || i.events.iter().any(|e| {
+            matches!(
+                e,
+                egui::Event::Key { pressed: true, .. }
+                    | egui::Event::Text(_)
+                    | egui::Event::MouseWheel { .. }
+                    | egui::Event::Zoom(_)
+                    | egui::Event::Touch { .. }
+            )
+        })
+}
+
+/// The view `v` shows in the canvas `rect`, as the opening fit records it.
+fn view_key(v: &View, rect: egui::Rect) -> ViewKey {
+    ViewKey { rect, zoom: v.zoom, center: v.center, rotation: v.rotation }
+}
+
+/// Whether the opening fit still follows the canvas `rect` (the view is unfitted, or unmoved since
+/// the fit and the user hasn't acted), and whether the canvas moved under it this frame, so the view
+/// is fitted again.
+fn opening_fit_follows(app: &VectorcraftApp, ui: &Ui, rect: egui::Rect, fitted: bool) -> (bool, bool) {
+    let following = !fitted || (!ui.input(acted) && app.canvas.opening_fit.zip(app.view()).is_some_and(|(was, v)| view_key(v, was.rect) == was));
+    let settling = fitted && following && app.canvas.opening_fit.is_some_and(|was| was.rect != rect);
+    (following, settling)
+}
+
 /// Paint the document canvas, complete or cached artwork, navigation and tool overlays.
 pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
     let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
@@ -225,13 +255,19 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
     let (full, rect) = view_rects(app, outer, ui.ctx().pixels_per_point());
     app.canvas_rect = Some(rect);
     let fitted = app.view().is_some_and(|v| v.fitted);
+    // A document's opening view is fitted to the canvas of the first frame that shows it, and the
+    // window's layout can still move the canvas's edges over the next frames. Until the view is
+    // moved or the user acts, the opening fit follows the canvas, so that the document opens at the
+    // zoom of the settled window.
+    let (following, settling) = opening_fit_follows(app, ui, rect, fitted);
     // Presentation Mode shows the active artboard on the whole screen and nothing but the art:
     // no selection, guides, grids or artboard edges (#4365).
     let presenting = app.ui.screen_mode == 3;
-    if !fitted || (presenting && app.canvas.presented != Some(rect)) {
+    if !fitted || settling || (presenting && app.canvas.presented != Some(rect)) {
         fit(app, "view.fitArtboard");
     }
     app.canvas.presented = presenting.then_some(rect);
+    app.canvas.opening_fit = following.then(|| app.view().map(|v| view_key(v, rect))).flatten();
     // Before the canvas's own interaction, so the view the canvas draws is the one they moved to.
     if bars {
         scroll_bars(app, ui, rect, outer, &t);
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs
index 2c4ef5baa..9ef8fe597 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs
@@ -87,6 +87,60 @@ fn subpixel_dock_layout_does_not_change_pointer_document_coordinates() {
     assert_ne!(observed[0], observed[2], "a real device-pixel resize must still change the mapping");
 }
 
+/// A document's opening view is fitted to the canvas of the first frame that shows it, and the
+/// window's layout can still move the canvas's edges over the next frames. Two starts of the app
+/// then showed one file at zooms a hair apart, on canvases alike once the window had settled. So
+/// until the view is moved or the user presses, types or scrolls, the opening fit follows the
+/// canvas.
+#[test]
+fn the_opening_fit_follows_the_canvas_until_the_view_moves_or_the_user_acts() {
+    // A frame that shows the canvas `width` points wide, which limits the fit of the 800 × 600
+    // artboard, with `events`: the view after it.
+    fn frame(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, width: f32, events: Vec<egui::Event>) -> View {
+        let raw = egui::RawInput {
+            screen_rect: Some(egui::Rect::from_min_size(Pos2::ZERO, vec2(1800.0, 900.0))),
+            max_texture_side: Some(8192),
+            events,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let mut out = ctx.run_ui(raw, |ui| {
+            let area = egui::Rect::from_min_size(pos2(54.0, 72.0), vec2(width + SCROLL_BAR, 636.0 + SCROLL_BAR));
+            let mut child = ui.new_child(egui::UiBuilder::new().max_rect(area));
+            show(app, &mut child);
+        });
+        out.textures_delta.clear();
+        *app.view().unwrap()
+    }
+    fn opened() -> (VectorcraftApp, egui::Context) {
+        let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(Session::new(), Default::default());
+        app.session.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 800, "height": 600, "created": 0})).unwrap();
+        (app, egui::Context::default())
+    }
+    let first_shown_at = |width: f32| {
+        let (mut app, ctx) = opened();
+        frame(&mut app, &ctx, width, vec![]).zoom
+    };
+    let (narrow, wide) = (first_shown_at(700.0), first_shown_at(702.0));
+    assert!(narrow < wide, "the canvas's width limits the fit: {narrow} and {wide}");
+    let escape = || egui::Event::Key { key: egui::Key::Escape, physical_key: None, pressed: true, repeat: false, modifiers: egui::Modifiers::NONE };
+
+    // The first frame lays the canvas out 2 points narrower than the next: the document opens at
+    // the zoom of the settled canvas, as it does when the first frame has it already.
+    let (mut app, ctx) = opened();
+    frame(&mut app, &ctx, 700.0, vec![]);
+    assert_eq!(frame(&mut app, &ctx, 702.0, vec![]).zoom, wide);
+    // Once the user has pressed a key, the canvas changing keeps the view, as resizing the window
+    // does.
+    assert_eq!(frame(&mut app, &ctx, 702.0, vec![escape()]).zoom, wide);
+    assert_eq!(frame(&mut app, &ctx, 700.0, vec![]).zoom, wide);
+
+    // A view moved before the canvas changes stays where it was moved to.
+    let (mut app, ctx) = opened();
+    frame(&mut app, &ctx, 700.0, vec![]);
+    app.view_mut().unwrap().zoom = 0.5;
+    assert_eq!(frame(&mut app, &ctx, 702.0, vec![]).zoom, 0.5);
+}
+
 /// A rendered raster becomes the image egui's own conversion makes of it, half-transparent
 /// edges and all; one whose bytes don't match its size becomes an empty image of that size.
 #[test]