diff --git a/src/gui/painting/qpaintengine_raster.cpp b/src/gui/painting/qpaintengine_raster.cpp
index fec01afdee..2841a583d5 100644
--- a/src/gui/painting/qpaintengine_raster.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/painting/qpaintengine_raster.cpp
@@ -2992,7 +2992,7 @@ void QRasterPaintEngine::drawStaticTextItem(QStaticTextItem *textItem)
     ensureRasterState();
 
     QFontEngine *fontEngine = textItem->fontEngine();
-    if (shouldDrawCachedGlyphs(fontEngine, state()->matrix)) {
+    if (!supportsTransformations(fontEngine)) {
         drawCachedGlyphs(textItem->numGlyphs, textItem->glyphs, textItem->glyphPositions,
                          fontEngine);
     } else if (state()->matrix.type() < QTransform::TxProject) {
@@ -3291,7 +3291,7 @@ bool QRasterPaintEngine::supportsTransformations(QFontEngine *fontEngine) const
 */
 bool QRasterPaintEngine::supportsTransformations(QFontEngine *fontEngine, const QTransform &m) const
 {
-    if (m.type() >= QTransform::TxProject)
+    if (fontEngine->supportsTransformations(m))
         return true;
 
     return !shouldDrawCachedGlyphs(fontEngine, m);
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontengine.cpp
index fa4e7a75bc..400ce8366f 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine.cpp
@@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ QFixed QFontEngine::averageCharWidth() const
     return bb.xoff;
 }
 
+bool QFontEngine::supportsTransformations(const QTransform &transform) const
+{
+    return (transform.type() >= QTransform::TxProject);
+}
 
 void QFontEngine::getGlyphPositions(const QGlyphLayout &glyphs, const QTransform &matrix, QTextItem::RenderFlags flags,
                                     QVarLengthArray<glyph_t> &glyphs_out, QVarLengthArray<QFixedPoint> &positions)
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_p.h b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_p.h
index 745e39ecf5..3321ca3b93 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_p.h
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ public:
         return canRender(utf16, utf16len);
     }
 
+    virtual bool supportsTransformations(const QTransform &transform) const;
+
     virtual Type type() const = 0;
 
     virtual int glyphCount() const;
diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
index d413711828..1087d18891 100644
--- a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
@@ -600,6 +600,11 @@ QFontEngine *QCoreTextFontEngine::cloneWithSize(qreal pixelSize) const
     return new QCoreTextFontEngine(cgFont, newFontDef);
 }
 
+bool QCoreTextFontEngine::supportsTransformations(const QTransform &transform) const
+{
+    return transform.type() > QTransform::TxTranslate;
+}
+
 QT_END_NAMESPACE
 
 #endif// !defined(Q_WS_MAC) || (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5)
diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext_p.h b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext_p.h
index db1ebbaca1..6c5c557b13 100644
--- a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext_p.h
+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext_p.h
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ public:
     virtual qreal minLeftBearing() const;
     virtual QFixed emSquareSize() const;
 
+    bool supportsTransformations(const QTransform &transform) const;
+
     virtual QFontEngine *cloneWithSize(qreal pixelSize) const;
     virtual int glyphMargin(QFontEngineGlyphCache::Type type) { Q_UNUSED(type); return 0; }