diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
index 43a1e5ce1d..af588e6aaf 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs
@@ -591,9 +591,15 @@ impl eframe::App for PdfCraftApp {
         // opening a modal/palette, or returning to a window that lost focus.
         let blocked = self.modal_open() || self.palette_open || !ctx.input(|i| i.focused);
         for (index, view) in self.views.iter_mut().enumerate() {
-            view.objects.set_input_blocked(blocked || self.active != Some(index));
-            if blocked || self.active != Some(index) {
+            let shut = blocked || self.active != Some(index);
+            view.objects.set_input_blocked(shut);
+            if shut {
                 view.auto_scroll.cancel();
+                // Edit text ignores input while it is blocked: its drags end rather than wait, to
+                // land wherever the pointer is once it opens again.
+                if self.quick_tool == QuickTool::EditText {
+                    view.cancel_edit_text_gestures();
+                }
             }
         }
         // A field that refused its value this frame keeps the shortcut from saving or printing
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index 6855850615..7e77d473be 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -890,6 +890,18 @@ impl DocView {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Abandon Edit text's pointer gestures (a paragraph moved or rewrapped, a picture moved,
+    /// resized, turned or cropped, added content moved, the objects' area selection or move), as
+    /// [`Self::cancel_pointer_gestures`] does: what they were previewing is not applied.
+    pub(crate) fn cancel_edit_text_gestures(&mut self) {
+        self.block_drag = None;
+        self.content.cancel_pointer_gesture();
+        self.objects.cancel_pointer_gesture();
+        if let Some(image) = &mut self.image_selection {
+            image.cancel_pointer_gesture();
+        }
+    }
+
     /// A view of a newly opened document, shown as `defaults` say. Opening a file then applies
     /// any layout or zoom the PDF itself asks for.
     pub fn new(id: DocId, info: &DocInfo, defaults: ViewDefaults) -> Self {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
index f8c56ae6ab..59de9d1374 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
@@ -7419,6 +7419,36 @@ fn an_add_text_click_pressed_beside_a_paragraph_starts_a_box_there() {
     assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.is_none(), "the paragraph stays closed");
 }
 
+/// A paragraph drag in Edit text ends when Edit text's input is blocked (the window loses focus), as
+/// a drag of the objects selected together does: nothing moves once the input comes back. It
+/// waited, and moved the paragraph to wherever the pointer then was.
+#[test]
+fn a_paragraph_drag_ends_when_the_window_loses_focus() {
+    let mut h = edit_page(pdfcraft_ui_egui::QuickTool::EditText);
+    let id = h.state().views[0].id;
+    let before = h.state().session.get(id).unwrap().text_blocks(0)[0].rect;
+    let from = point_on(&h, (before[0] + before[2]) / 2.0, (before[1] + before[3]) / 2.0);
+    h.hover_at(from);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    h.drag_at(from);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    for k in 1..=4 {
+        h.hover_at(from + egui::vec2(0.0, 10.0 * k as f32));
+        h.run_steps(1);
+    }
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].block_drag.is_some(), "the paragraph is being moved");
+    h.input_mut().focused = false;
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    h.drop_at(from + egui::vec2(0.0, 40.0));
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    h.input_mut().focused = true;
+    h.hover_at(from + egui::vec2(0.0, 80.0));
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].block_drag.is_none(), "the drag is over");
+    assert_eq!(h.state().session.get(id).unwrap().text_blocks(0)[0].rect, before, "nothing moved");
+    assert!(!dirty(&h));
+}
+
 /// The rotate knob of a picture that fills its page lies past the page's edge, and a drag there
 /// still turns the picture: the press is the page's whose knob it is.
 #[test]