diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index d65d20051d..6855850615 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -255,22 +255,6 @@ impl ImageObb {
     }
 }
 
-/// Whether pointer `p` is on an image being cropped, its crop box or its handles (#5835).
-pub(crate) fn crop_contains_point(
-    img: &pdfcraft_engine::PageImage,
-    crop: &crate::edit_text_ui::CropMode,
-    xf: &PageXform,
-    info: &DocInfo,
-    page: usize,
-    p: Pos2,
-) -> bool {
-    let obb = ImageObb::from_image(img, xf, info, page);
-    let full_obb = ImageObb::from_matrix(img.matrix, xf, info, page);
-    crate::edit_text_ui::quad_contains(obb.corners(), p)
-        || crate::edit_text_ui::quad_contains(full_obb.corners(), p)
-        || crate::edit_text_ui::crop_controls_contain(img, crop, xf, info, page, p)
-}
-
 /// The page display as it was before full screen, put back on leaving it
 /// ([`DocView::enter_presentation`]).
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -668,6 +652,9 @@ pub struct DocView {
     pub(crate) cursor: crate::page_cursor::PageCursor,
     /// Who the press the pages hold belongs to.
     pub(crate) router: crate::page_router::PageRouter,
+    /// What the last right-click on a page went to, and on which page: the page's menu shows its
+    /// entries, or the page's own when it went to nothing that has a menu.
+    pub(crate) menu_for: Option<(usize, crate::page_router::Owner)>,
     /// Escape cancelled the press the pages hold: the page ignores it until the button is up, so
     /// its release neither clicks nor ends a drag.
     pub(crate) press_cancelled: bool,
@@ -1040,6 +1027,7 @@ impl DocView {
             signature_drag: Default::default(),
             cursor: Default::default(),
             router: Default::default(),
+            menu_for: None,
             press_cancelled: false,
         }
     }
@@ -1675,6 +1663,7 @@ fn draw_pages(
         // comment, and Edit text's picture, too (below), as one on a page's empty part does. A
         // selected Prepare field keeps its menu, off the pages as on them.
         view.comments.context_at = None;
+        view.menu_for = None;
     }
     let mut frame = PageFrame {
         env: *env,
@@ -1788,25 +1777,22 @@ fn draw_pages(
     if view.continuous {
         view.current = current;
     }
+    // The menu of what the right-click went to (`menu_for`), or else the page's.
+    use crate::page_router::{CropPart, Owner, PicturePart};
+    let menu_for = view.menu_for.map(|(_, owner)| owner);
     resp.context_menu(|ui| {
-        let is_crop_over_image = tool == QuickTool::EditText
-            && view.image_selection.clone().is_some_and(|sel| {
-                let Some(ref crop) = sel.crop else { return false };
-                let pointer_pos = ptr.pos;
-                let Some(p) = pointer_pos else { return false };
-                let Some((_, xf)) = view.screen_xforms.iter().find(|(page_idx, _)| *page_idx == sel.page).cloned() else { return false };
-                let images = cached_edit_images(view, doc, sel.page).to_vec();
-                let Some(img) = images.get(sel.index) else { return false };
-                crop_contains_point(img, crop, &xf, info, sel.page, p)
-            });
-        if is_crop_over_image {
-            ui.ctx().data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(crate::edit_text_ui::image_menu_id(), false));
+        // Crop mode has no menu: a right-click on the picture being cropped, its box or its grips is
+        // the crop's (#5835).
+        if matches!(menu_for, Some(Owner::Picture { part: PicturePart::Crop(part), .. }) if part != CropPart::Page) {
             egui::Popup::close_all(ui.ctx());
             ui.close();
             return;
         }
-        // Preparing a form: the selected field's menu.
-        if preparing && let Some((name, wi)) = view.prepare.selected.clone() {
+        // Preparing a form: the selected field's menu, on a field.
+        if preparing
+            && matches!(menu_for, Some(Owner::PrepareField { .. } | Owner::PrepareCorner { .. }))
+            && let Some((name, wi)) = view.prepare.selected.clone()
+        {
             // Several fields: Align, Center, Distribute, Set Fields to Same Size.
             if !view.prepare.also.is_empty() {
                 use crate::prepare::Arrange as A;
@@ -1853,7 +1839,9 @@ fn draw_pages(
             }
             return;
         }
-        if let Some((page, index)) = view.links.context {
+        if matches!(menu_for, Some(Owner::Link { .. }))
+            && let Some((page, index)) = view.links.context
+        {
             if ui.button(tl!("Properties…")).clicked() {
                 view.links.open_existing = Some((page, index));
                 ui.close();
@@ -1874,28 +1862,21 @@ fn draw_pages(
             return;
         }
         let can_paste_image = env.can_paste_image;
-        let is_image_menu = tool == QuickTool::EditText
-            && (ui.ctx().data_mut(|d| d.get_temp::<bool>(crate::edit_text_ui::image_menu_id())).unwrap_or(false)
-                || view.image_selection.clone().is_some_and(|sel| {
-                    let pointer_pos = ptr.pos;
-                    let Some(p) = pointer_pos else { return false };
-                    let Some((_, xf)) = view.screen_xforms.iter().find(|(page_idx, _)| *page_idx == sel.page).cloned() else { return false };
-                    let images = cached_edit_images(view, doc, sel.page).to_vec();
-                    let Some(img) = images.get(sel.index) else { return false };
-                    let obb = ImageObb::from_image(img, &xf, info, sel.page);
-                    let b = image_screen_rect(img, &xf, info, sel.page);
-                    obb.contains(b, p)
-                }));
-        if is_image_menu && let Some(sel) = view.image_selection.clone() {
+        if tool == QuickTool::EditText
+            && matches!(menu_for, Some(Owner::Picture { .. }))
+            && let Some(sel) = view.image_selection.clone()
+        {
             let images = cached_edit_images(view, doc, sel.page).to_vec();
-            // Paste lands where the menu opened only on the picture's page: where pages touch, the
-            // first page takes the right-click, and its point means nothing on the second.
+            // Paste lands where the menu opened, on the picture's page: the right-click that opened
+            // it went to that page (`page_input`), and another page's point means nothing there.
             let at = view.comments.context_at.filter(|(page, _)| *page == sel.page).map(|(_, at)| at);
             let rotation = (view.rotation % 360 + info.pages.get(sel.page).map_or(0, |p| p.rotation % 360)) % 360;
             crate::edit_text_ui::image_context_menu(ui, view, &images, sel.page, sel.index, can_paste_image, &mut image_action, at, rotation);
             return;
         }
-        if view.comments.selected.is_some() {
+        if let Some((page, Owner::Comment { index, .. })) = view.menu_for
+            && view.comments.selected == Some((page, index))
+        {
             canvas_action = comments::context_menu(ui, view, info, &|page, index| doc.annotation_deletable(page, index), prefs, allowed, can_modify);
             return;
         }
@@ -1944,9 +1925,6 @@ fn draw_pages(
         };
         default_page_context_menu(ui, page, at, perms, &mut page_action);
     });
-    if !resp.context_menu_opened() {
-        ui.ctx().data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(crate::edit_text_ui::image_menu_id(), false));
-    }
     *out = PageOut {
         canvas_action,
         clicked_link,
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
index 97aad93100..4750004e35 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ pub(super) fn page_tool_input(ui: &mut egui::Ui, view: &mut DocView, frame: &mut
             Some(Owner::Picture { index, part }) if part != crate::page_router::PicturePart::Crop(crate::page_router::CropPart::Page) => Some(index),
             _ => None,
         };
-        crate::edit_text_ui::picture_context(ui.ctx(), i, picture, view);
+        crate::edit_text_ui::picture_context(i, picture, view);
     }
     // A mark already placed takes its own press (comments, below), as does one being moved on this
     // page until its move ends; with no button down the Fill & Sign tool's preview hides where a
@@ -347,6 +347,13 @@ fn right_click(hits: &PageHits<'_>, under: &[crate::page_router::Hit], view: &mu
     let context = hits.context_at(view, p, under);
     // Delete page, Paste and Copy Image act where the menu opened, whoever takes the right-click.
     comments::anchor(hits.pcx, p, view);
+    // The menu is what the right-click went to: Add text's is the page's. While a press is held only
+    // a link takes its menu, as only links take theirs then.
+    view.menu_for = match context {
+        Some(owner @ Owner::Link { .. }) => Some((hits.page, owner)),
+        _ if press_held || hits.tool == QuickTool::AddText && hits.can_modify => None,
+        owner => owner.map(|o| (hits.page, o)),
+    };
     if press_held {
         return context;
     }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
index ed24d45839..e7548a2b89 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ mod image;
 mod layout;
 
 pub(crate) use background::TextBackground;
-pub use image::{CropMode, DragTarget, ImageAction, ImageDrag, ImageHandle, ImageSelection, image_menu_id};
+pub use image::{CropMode, DragTarget, ImageAction, ImageDrag, ImageHandle, ImageSelection};
 pub(crate) use image::{
-    ImageCx, Matrix, body_hit as picture_hit, crop_controls_contain, crop_hit, handle_hit as picture_handle_hit, image_context_menu, image_input,
-    picture_context, picture_keys, quad_contains, user_to_screen,
+    ImageCx, Matrix, body_hit as picture_hit, crop_hit, handle_hit as picture_handle_hit, image_context_menu, image_input, picture_context,
+    picture_keys, quad_contains, user_to_screen,
 };
 #[cfg(test)]
 use image::{rotate_knob, turn_degrees, turn_degrees_delta};
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui/image.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui/image.rs
index de36b80f5c..ce99f48bac 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui/image.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui/image.rs
@@ -264,20 +264,6 @@ fn same_rect(a: [f64; 4], b: [f64; 4]) -> bool {
     a.into_iter().zip(b).all(|(a, b)| (a - b).abs() < 1e-3)
 }
 
-/// Whether `p` is on the crop box or one of its grips (#5835). The Done, Cancel and Remove
-/// Crop pills are widgets of their own, so they take their clicks before the canvas does.
-pub(crate) fn crop_controls_contain(
-    image: &pdfcraft_engine::PageImage,
-    mode: &CropMode,
-    xf: &PageXform,
-    info: &DocInfo,
-    page: usize,
-    p: Pos2,
-) -> bool {
-    crop_frames(xf, info, page, image, mode.keep)
-        .is_some_and(|(_, k)| k.contains(p) || crop_handles(k).iter().any(|h| h.distance(p) < CROP_GRIP_REACH))
-}
-
 /// Crop mode for the selected image `i` whose visible frame is `b` (screen). Returns `true`
 /// (the pointer is the crop's while it lasts; its keys are read by [`picture_keys`]).
 #[allow(clippy::cognitive_complexity)]
@@ -678,11 +664,6 @@ pub(super) fn turn_degrees(centre: Pos2, pointer: Pos2, snap: bool) -> f32 {
     turn_degrees_delta(centre, centre - egui::vec2(0.0, 10.0), pointer, snap)
 }
 
-#[doc(hidden)]
-pub fn image_menu_id() -> egui::Id {
-    egui::Id::unique("image-menu")
-}
-
 /// Images on a page: the press that is a picture's (`press`, [`body_hit`] and [`handle_hit`])
 /// selects it, a drag of the selected one moves, resizes or turns it. Returns `true` when the
 /// pointer was used.
@@ -991,20 +972,15 @@ pub(crate) fn image_input(cx: &ImageCx<'_>, images: &[pdfcraft_engine::PageImage
 }
 
 /// A right-click on `page` that went to its picture `index` (on it, a grip of it, or the box kept
-/// while it is cropped) selects it, keeping it as it is if it was selected, and opens the picture's
-/// menu; one that went to anything else (`None`) unselects the picture selected and closes the menu.
-pub(crate) fn picture_context(ctx: &egui::Context, page: usize, index: Option<usize>, view: &mut DocView) {
+/// while it is cropped) selects it for its menu, keeping it as it is if it was selected; one that
+/// went to anything else (`None`) unselects the picture selected.
+pub(crate) fn picture_context(page: usize, index: Option<usize>, view: &mut DocView) {
     match index {
-        Some(index) => {
-            if view.image_selection.as_ref().is_none_or(|s| (s.page, s.index) != (page, index)) {
-                view.image_selection = Some(ImageSelection::at(page, index));
-            }
-            ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(image_menu_id(), true));
-        }
-        None => {
-            view.image_selection = None;
-            ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(image_menu_id(), false));
+        Some(index) if view.image_selection.as_ref().is_none_or(|s| (s.page, s.index) != (page, index)) => {
+            view.image_selection = Some(ImageSelection::at(page, index));
         }
+        Some(_) => {}
+        None => view.image_selection = None,
     }
 }
 
@@ -1029,7 +1005,6 @@ pub(crate) fn image_context_menu(
     let picked = |ui: &mut egui::Ui, entry: egui::Response| {
         let clicked = entry.clicked();
         if clicked {
-            ui.ctx().data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(image_menu_id(), false));
             egui::Popup::close_all(ui.ctx());
             ui.close();
         }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
index 003cf2d0fa..47f6ce9c49 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
@@ -1679,6 +1679,27 @@ fn with_prepare_a_click_that_began_off_the_page_keeps_the_selected_field() {
     assert!(h.state().views[0].prepare.selected.is_some(), "a click that began off the page leaves it selected");
 }
 
+/// With Prepare open and a field selected, a right-click on the empty page opens the page's menu, and
+/// one on the field the field's: the menu is what the right-click went to. The field's menu opened
+/// wherever the page was right-clicked.
+#[test]
+fn with_prepare_a_right_click_beside_the_selected_field_opens_the_pages_menu() {
+    let mut h = open(comment_and_checkbox_pdf(), "150", false);
+    assert!(h.state_mut().execute("form.prepare"));
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    let on_box = at(&h, 110.0, 210.0);
+    mouse_click(&mut h, on_box);
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].prepare.selected.is_some(), "the field is selected");
+    let blank = at(&h, 60.0, 300.0);
+    right_click(&mut h, blank);
+    assert!(h.query_by_label("Duplicate…").is_none(), "no field menu on the empty page");
+    assert!(h.query_all_by_label_contains("Copy").next().is_some(), "the page's menu");
+    h.key_press(egui::Key::Escape);
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    right_click(&mut h, on_box);
+    assert!(h.query_by_label("Duplicate…").is_some(), "the field's menu on the field");
+}
+
 /// With the Edit panel open and the Note tool, a click on added text is the added text's: no note is
 /// started under it, as before.
 #[test]