diff --git a/src/gui/painting/qpaintbuffer.cpp b/src/gui/painting/qpaintbuffer.cpp
index 421d706230a..e8bdc495c2b 100644
--- a/src/gui/painting/qpaintbuffer.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/painting/qpaintbuffer.cpp
@@ -1242,6 +1242,11 @@ void QPaintBufferEngine::drawTiledPixmap(const QRectF &r, const QPixmap &pm, con
 
 void QPaintBufferEngine::drawStaticTextItem(QStaticTextItem *staticTextItem)
 {
+    if (staticTextItem->usesRawFont) {
+        QPaintEngineEx::drawStaticTextItem(staticTextItem);  // Draw as path
+        return;
+    }
+
     QVariantList variants;
 
     variants << QVariant(staticTextItem->font);
diff --git a/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp b/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp
index 159acf40c68..3af8fdea2e9 100644
--- a/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp
@@ -5619,6 +5619,8 @@ void QPainterPrivate::drawGlyphs(const quint32 *glyphArray, QFixedPoint *positio
         staticTextItem.numGlyphs = glyphCount;
         staticTextItem.glyphs = reinterpret_cast<glyph_t *>(const_cast<glyph_t *>(glyphArray));
         staticTextItem.glyphPositions = positions;
+        // The font property is meaningless, the fontengine must be used directly:
+        staticTextItem.usesRawFont = true;
 
         extended->drawStaticTextItem(&staticTextItem);
     } else {
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qstatictext_p.h b/src/gui/text/qstatictext_p.h
index 4451f27b27e..fd920aaa522 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qstatictext_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/qstatictext_p.h
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ class Q_GUI_EXPORT QStaticTextItem
 {
 public:
     QStaticTextItem() : chars(0), numChars(0), useBackendOptimizations(false),
-                        userDataNeedsUpdate(0), m_fontEngine(0), m_userData(0) {}
+                        userDataNeedsUpdate(0), usesRawFont(0),
+                        m_fontEngine(0), m_userData(0) {}
 
     QStaticTextItem(const QStaticTextItem &other)
     {
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ public:
         color = other.color;
         useBackendOptimizations = other.useBackendOptimizations;
         userDataNeedsUpdate = other.userDataNeedsUpdate;
+        usesRawFont = other.usesRawFont;
 
         m_fontEngine = 0;
         m_userData = 0;
@@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ public:
     QColor color;                                // 10 bytes per item
     char useBackendOptimizations : 1;            // 1 byte per item
     char userDataNeedsUpdate : 1;                //
+    char usesRawFont : 1;                        //
                                                  // ================
                                                  // 51 bytes per item