diff --git a/packages/element/src/renderElement.ts b/packages/element/src/renderElement.ts
index 43a42bf083..f84bba09c7 100644
--- a/packages/element/src/renderElement.ts
+++ b/packages/element/src/renderElement.ts
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ const generateElementCanvas = (
 
   const rc = rough.canvas(canvas);
 
-  drawElementOnCanvas(element, rc, context, renderConfig);
+  drawElementOnCanvas(element, rc, context, renderConfig, scale);
 
   context.restore();
 
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ const drawElementOnCanvas = (
   rc: RoughCanvas,
   context: CanvasRenderingContext2D,
   renderConfig: StaticCanvasRenderConfig,
+  scale = 1,
 ) => {
   switch (element.type) {
     case "rectangle":
@@ -429,7 +430,7 @@ const drawElementOnCanvas = (
     }
     case "freedraw": {
       context.save();
-      drawFreeDrawSegments(element, context, renderConfig, 0);
+      drawFreeDrawSegments(element, context, renderConfig, 0, undefined, scale);
       context.restore();
       break;
     }
diff --git a/packages/element/src/renderFreedraw.ts b/packages/element/src/renderFreedraw.ts
index c6a1f0950a..caebdabd8c 100644
--- a/packages/element/src/renderFreedraw.ts
+++ b/packages/element/src/renderFreedraw.ts
@@ -161,11 +161,13 @@ const drawSubdividedSegment = (
   t0y: number,
   t1x: number,
   t1y: number,
+  scale: number,
 ) => {
   const segLen = Math.sqrt((p1x - p0x) ** 2 + (p1y - p0y) ** 2);
+  // Target spacing is in screen pixels; divide by scale to get scene units.
   const nSubdiv = Math.max(
     1,
-    Math.ceil(segLen / BEZIER_SUBDIVIDE_TARGET_SPACING),
+    Math.ceil((segLen * scale) / BEZIER_SUBDIVIDE_TARGET_SPACING),
   );
 
   // Cubic Bezier control points derived from Catmull-Rom tangents.
@@ -220,6 +222,7 @@ export const drawFreeDrawSegments = (
   renderConfig: StaticCanvasRenderConfig,
   fromIndex: number,
   upToIndex?: number,
+  scale = 1,
 ) => {
   const { points, pressures } = element;
   const N = points.length;
@@ -296,6 +299,7 @@ export const drawFreeDrawSegments = (
       t0[1],
       t1[0],
       t1[1],
+      scale,
     );
   }
 };
@@ -546,6 +550,7 @@ export const generateOrUpdateFreeDrawIncrementalCanvas = (
         renderConfig,
         committedFromIndex,
         newCommittedCount, // upToIndex - stop before the last provisional segment
+        canvasScale,
       );
     });
     inc.committedPointCount = newCommittedCount;
@@ -567,6 +572,7 @@ export const generateOrUpdateFreeDrawIncrementalCanvas = (
       renderConfig,
       inc.committedPointCount - 1,
       undefined, // draw to natural end (the tip segment)
+      canvasScale,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx b/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
index a4de75a4f0..ca17459074 100644
--- a/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
+++ b/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
@@ -9495,6 +9495,15 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
     let prevRawY: number | null = null;
     let prevTs: number | null = null; // previous event timestamp (ms)
 
+    // Pen pressure warmup: the first few samples from a pen digitizer are
+    // unreliable (often spike to ~0.5).  We apply an EMA whose alpha ramps
+    // from PEN_PRESSURE_INITIAL_ALPHA up to 1 over PEN_PRESSURE_WARMUP_SAMPLES
+    // so the stroke gradually eases from heavy smoothing into raw pressure.
+    let penPressureEma: number | null = null;
+    let penPressureSampleCount = 0;
+    const PEN_PRESSURE_WARMUP_SAMPLES = 20;
+    const PEN_PRESSURE_INITIAL_ALPHA = 0.1;
+
     // Tuning constants:
     //   MIN_CUTOFF  – cutoff frequency (Hz) when speed ≈ 0; smaller = more smoothing
     //   BETA        – rate at which cutoff grows with speed; larger = quicker adaptation
@@ -10236,7 +10245,11 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
               emaDy = alphaD * rawDyDt + (1 - alphaD) * emaDy;
 
               // 2. Adaptive cutoff: higher speed → higher cutoff → less lag.
-              const speed = Math.sqrt(emaDx * emaDx + emaDy * emaDy);
+              // Normalize to screen-space pixels/sec so BETA behaves the same
+              // regardless of zoom level (scene units are 1/zoom px at high zoom).
+              const speed =
+                Math.sqrt(emaDx * emaDx + emaDy * emaDy) *
+                this.state.zoom.value;
               const cutoff = MIN_CUTOFF + BETA * speed;
               const alphaP = emaAlpha(cutoff, dt);
 
@@ -10257,7 +10270,27 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
             if (!lastPoint || lastPoint[0] !== dx || lastPoint[1] !== dy) {
               const pt = pointFrom<LocalPoint>(dx, dy);
               newPoints.push(pt);
-              newPressures.push(ev.pressure);
+
+              let pressure = ev.pressure;
+              if (event.pointerType === "pen") {
+                // Gradually ease from aggressive smoothing into raw pressure to
+                // suppress the unreliable spike at the start of a pen stroke.
+                const progress = Math.min(
+                  1,
+                  penPressureSampleCount / PEN_PRESSURE_WARMUP_SAMPLES,
+                );
+                const alpha =
+                  PEN_PRESSURE_INITIAL_ALPHA +
+                  progress * (1 - PEN_PRESSURE_INITIAL_ALPHA);
+                penPressureEma =
+                  penPressureEma === null
+                    ? pressure
+                    : alpha * pressure + (1 - alpha) * penPressureEma;
+                pressure = penPressureEma;
+                penPressureSampleCount++;
+              }
+
+              newPressures.push(pressure);
               lastPoint = pt;
             }
           }