  I present results for the pion's electromagnetic form factor in the spacelike
region, which implement the most advanced perturbative information currently
available for this observable in conjunction with a pion distribution amplitude
that agrees with the CLEO data on the pion-photon transition form factor at the
$1\sigma$ level. I show that using for the running strong coupling and its
powers their analytic versions in the sense of Shirkov and Solovtsov, the
obtained predictions become insensitive to the renormalization scheme and scale
setting adopted. Joining the hard contribution with the soft part on account of
local duality and respecting the Ward identity at $Q^2=0$, the agreement with
the available experimental data, including expectations from planned
experiments at JLab, is remarkable both in trend and magnitude. I also comment
on Sudakov resummation within the analytic approach.
