diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
index 087a8fe7f..571874e34 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
@@ -1299,7 +1299,9 @@ QFontEngine* QFontDatabase::load(const QFontPrivate *d, int script)
         return fe;
     }
 
-    if (QFile::exists(req.family)) {
+    const ushort firstchar = (req.family.isEmpty() ? 0 : req.family.at(0).unicode());
+    // relative or absolute path
+    if (firstchar == '.' || firstchar == '/') {
         QFontEngineFT* ftfe = new QFontEngineFT(req);
         if (ftfe->invalid()) {
             delete ftfe;
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
index 60b4143b0..66d9a4b38 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
@@ -63,18 +63,7 @@ QFreetypeFace::QFreetypeFace(const QFontEngine::FaceId &face_id)
         return;
     }
 
-    QFile file(QString::fromUtf8(face_id.filename));
-    if (!(file.fileEngine()->fileFlags(QAbstractFileEngine::FlagsMask) & QAbstractFileEngine::LocalDiskFlag)) {
-        if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
-            return;
-        }
-        fontData = file.readAll();
-    }
-    if (!fontData.isEmpty()) {
-        if (FT_New_Memory_Face(library, (const FT_Byte *)fontData.constData(), fontData.size(), face_id.index, &face)) {
-            return;
-        }
-    } else if (FT_New_Face(library, face_id.filename, face_id.index, &face)) {
+    if (FT_New_Face(library, face_id.filename, face_id.index, &face) != 0) {
         return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
index 665cb50ba..46fb32a87 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ private:
     Q_DISABLE_COPY(QFreetypeFace);
 
     FT_Library library;
-    QByteArray fontData;
 };
 
 class Q_GUI_EXPORT QFontEngineFT : public QFontEngine
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qtextengine.cpp b/src/gui/text/qtextengine.cpp
index c62d2be50..7ee947ad2 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qtextengine.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qtextengine.cpp
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ void QTextEngine::justify(const QScriptLine &line)
             if (justificationPoints[i].type == type)
                 ++n;
         }
-//          qDebug("number of points for justification type %d: %d", type, n);
+        // qDebug("number of points for justification type %d: %d", type, n);
 
 
         if (!n)
diff --git a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/CMakeLists.txt
index 7776bae5c..7bfa1c94e 100644
--- a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 katie_gui_test(tst_qfontmetrics
     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tst_qfontmetrics.cpp
-    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/testfont.qrc
 )
diff --git a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/testfont.qrc b/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/testfont.qrc
deleted file mode 100644
index 74a9c4dc8..000000000
--- a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/testfont.qrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version="1.0">
-    <qresource prefix="/fonts">
-        <file>ucs4font.ttf</file>
-    </qresource>
-</RCC>
diff --git a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/tst_qfontmetrics.cpp b/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/tst_qfontmetrics.cpp
index 8b69a1b51..59ef75778 100644
--- a/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/tst_qfontmetrics.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/qfontmetrics/tst_qfontmetrics.cpp
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ void tst_QFontMetrics::averageCharWidth()
 
 void tst_QFontMetrics::inFontUcs4()
 {
-    QFont font(":/fonts/ucs4font.ttf");
+    QFont font(SRCDIR "/ucs4font.ttf");
     {
         QFontMetrics fm(font);
 
@@ -245,4 +245,3 @@ void tst_QFontMetrics::lineWidth()
 QTEST_MAIN(tst_QFontMetrics)
 
 #include "moc_tst_qfontmetrics.cpp"
-#include "qrc_testfont.cpp"