diff --git a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
index 3ff92a9f..162aa608 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
@@ -1229,22 +1229,17 @@ impl Session {
         format!("Untitled-{}", self.untitled_counter)
     }
     /// Text layout bounds are a cache (not saved): compute them for a document just read, or
-    /// selection boxes and hit testing would use the rough estimate until each text is edited.
+    /// selection boxes and hit testing would use the rough estimate until each text is edited, and
+    /// what is fitted to type's bounds (an envelope warping it) would come out differently. That
+    /// holds for the type in symbol definitions, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks too,
+    /// not only in the layers (#1738).
     pub(crate) fn refresh_text_bounds(doc: &mut Document) {
         // Inline graphics in text take their size from their symbols' art (not saved either).
         doc.resolve_inline_art();
-        let mut texts = vec![];
-        doc.walk(|n| {
-            if matches!(n.kind, NodeKind::Text(_)) {
-                texts.push(n.id);
-            }
-        });
-        for id in texts {
-            if let Some(NodeKind::Text(t)) = doc.node_mut(id).map(|n| &mut n.kind)
-                && t.cached_bounds.is_none()
-            {
-                cmd::typecmd::refresh_bounds(t);
-            }
+        let trees = doc.layers.iter_mut().chain(doc.symbols.iter_mut().map(|s| &mut s.art));
+        let trees = trees.chain(doc.graph_designs.iter_mut().map(|g| &mut g.art));
+        for tree in trees.chain(doc.patterns.iter_mut().flat_map(|p| p.art.iter_mut())) {
+            refresh_tree_text_bounds(tree);
         }
     }
     /// Add a document and make it active.
@@ -1704,6 +1699,31 @@ impl Session {
     }
 }
 
+/// Lay out the type in tree `n` (opacity mask art included) whose bounds aren't cached. Only the
+/// nodes on the way to such type are copied.
+fn refresh_tree_text_bounds(n: &mut Arc<vectorcraft_doc::Node>) {
+    fn stale(n: &vectorcraft_doc::Node) -> bool {
+        matches!(&n.kind, NodeKind::Text(t) if t.cached_bounds.is_none())
+            || n.extras().mask.as_deref().is_some_and(|m| stale(&m.art))
+            || n.children().is_some_and(|ch| ch.iter().any(|c| stale(c)))
+    }
+    if !stale(n) {
+        return;
+    }
+    let n = Arc::make_mut(n);
+    if let NodeKind::Text(t) = &mut n.kind
+        && t.cached_bounds.is_none()
+    {
+        cmd::typecmd::refresh_bounds(t);
+    }
+    if let Some(m) = n.extras_if_any().and_then(|e| e.mask.as_deref_mut()) {
+        refresh_tree_text_bounds(&mut m.art);
+    }
+    for c in n.children_mut().into_iter().flatten() {
+        refresh_tree_text_bounds(c);
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests;
 #[cfg(test)]
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests_envelope.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests_envelope.rs
index 43819cf8..a6e917d0 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests_envelope.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests_envelope.rs
@@ -288,3 +288,35 @@ fn enveloped_type_keeps_each_runs_colour_on_the_canvas() {
     }
     assert!(red > 100 && black > 100, "{red} red, {black} black");
 }
+
+/// #1738: type warped by an envelope inside a symbol looks the same after a native save and
+/// reopen: the type in symbol definitions gets its layout bounds back (they aren't saved), so the
+/// envelope is fitted to the same box as before.
+#[test]
+fn warped_type_in_a_symbol_reopens_unchanged() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    s.execute("text.create", &json!({"x": 30, "y": 160, "text": "STUDIO", "size": 72, "color": "#E3AB49"})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("object.envelope.makeWithWarp", &json!({"style": "wave", "bend": 18})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("symbol.new", &json!({"name": "Master"})).unwrap();
+    let render = |s: &Session| vectorcraft_render::Renderer::new().render(&s.doc().unwrap().doc, 400, 300, Affine::IDENTITY, &Default::default());
+    let before = render(&s);
+    let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("vectorcraft-1738-{}", std::process::id()));
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+    let path = dir.join("warped.vectorcraft");
+    s.execute("document.save", &json!({"path": path})).unwrap();
+    let mut o = Session::new();
+    o.execute("document.open", &json!({"path": path})).unwrap();
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    let d = &o.doc().unwrap().doc;
+    let mut texts = 0;
+    d.symbols[0].art.walk(&mut |n| {
+        if let NodeKind::Text(t) = &n.kind {
+            texts += 1;
+            assert!(t.cached_bounds.is_some(), "the symbol's type has no layout bounds after reopening");
+        }
+    });
+    assert_eq!(texts, 1);
+    let after = render(&o);
+    let differ = (0..300).flat_map(|y| (0..400).map(move |x| (x, y))).filter(|&(x, y)| before.pixel(x, y) != after.pixel(x, y)).count();
+    assert_eq!(differ, 0, "{differ} pixels changed on reopening");
+}