diff --git a/src/item/Item.js b/src/item/Item.js
index e1e63e6c..dc2e42b2 100644
--- a/src/item/Item.js
+++ b/src/item/Item.js
@@ -1250,23 +1250,28 @@ var Item = this.Item = Base.extend(Callback, /** @lends Item# */{
 		return false;
 	}
 }, Base.each(['bounds', 'strokeBounds', 'handleBounds', 'roughBounds'], function(name) {
+	// Produce getters for bounds properties. These handle caching, matrices and
+	// redirect the call to the private _getBounds, which can be overridden by 
+	// subclasses, see below.
 	this['get' + Base.capitalize(name)] = function(/* matrix */) {
 		var matrix = arguments[0];
 		// If the matrix is an identity transformation, set it to null for
 		// faster processing
 		if (matrix && matrix.isIdentity())
 			matrix = null;
+		// Allow subclasses to override _boundsType if they use the same
+		// calculations for multiple types. The default is name:
+		var type = this._boundsType;
+		if (typeof type != 'string')
+			type = type && type[name] || name;
 		// See if we can cache these bounds. We only cache non-transformed
 		// bounds on items without children, as we do not receive hierarchy
 		// change notifiers from children, and walking up the parents and
 		// merging cache bounds is not expensive.
-		// Allow subclasses to define _simpleBounds if they want to share the
-		// cache across all different bound types.
-		var cache = !this._children && !matrix
-				&& (this._simpleBounds && 'bounds' || name);
+		var cache = !this._children && !matrix && type;
 		if (cache && this._bounds && this._bounds[cache])
 			return this._bounds[cache];
-		var bounds = this._getBounds(name, matrix);
+		var bounds = this._getBounds(type, matrix);
 		// If we're returning 'bounds', create a LinkedRectangle that uses
 		// the setBounds() setter to update the Item whenever the bounds are
 		// changed:
diff --git a/src/item/PlacedItem.js b/src/item/PlacedItem.js
index 7b237e79..79a56c4a 100644
--- a/src/item/PlacedItem.js
+++ b/src/item/PlacedItem.js
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
  * @extends Item
  */
 var PlacedItem = this.PlacedItem = Item.extend(/** @lends PlacedItem# */{
+	// PlacedItem uses strokeBounds for bounds
+	_boundsType: { bounds: 'strokeBounds' },
 
 	_transform: function(matrix, flags) {
 		// In order to set the right context transformation when drawing the
@@ -49,9 +51,6 @@ var PlacedItem = this.PlacedItem = Item.extend(/** @lends PlacedItem# */{
 	},
 
 	_getBounds: function(type, matrix) {
-		// The bounds of PlacedItems are the same as the strokeBounds
-		if (type == 'bounds')
-			type = 'strokeBounds';
 		// Concatenate the passed matrix with the internal one
 		matrix = matrix ? matrix.clone().concatenate(this._matrix)
 				: this._matrix;
diff --git a/src/item/Raster.js b/src/item/Raster.js
index 26a61cde..63cb8eb0 100644
--- a/src/item/Raster.js
+++ b/src/item/Raster.js
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
  */
 var Raster = this.Raster = PlacedItem.extend(/** @lends Raster# */{
 	// Raster doesn't make the distinction between the different bounds,
-	// so use the same cache for all of them
-	_simpleBounds: true,
+	// so use the same name for all of them
+	_boundsType: 'bounds',
 
 	// TODO: Implement url / type, width, height.
 	// TODO: Have PlacedSymbol & Raster inherit from a shared class?
diff --git a/src/text/TextItem.js b/src/text/TextItem.js
index 75ed611e..3f17ba6c 100644
--- a/src/text/TextItem.js
+++ b/src/text/TextItem.js
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
  */
 var TextItem = this.TextItem = Item.extend(/** @lends TextItem# */{
 	// TextItem doesn't make the distinction between the different bounds,
-	// so use the same cache for all of them
-	_simpleBounds: true,
+	// so use the same name for all of them
+	_boundsType: 'bounds',
 
 	initialize: function() {
 		this.base();