Mihaela wrote:

Ted Gould wrote:
It's probably that you don't have the poppler development headers
installed.  On Ubuntu/Debian you can do this with:

    $ apt-get build-dep inkscape

That will give you all the dependencies that were used to build the
version of Inkscape that is distributed.  You'll need to re-run
configure after installing the headers.

		--Ted

  
Anyone know how to do that with yum (fedora)?

I installed poppler-dev (headers are there), ran configure and make install and now I can import pdf files into that dev build. I'd still love to know how to do that for all the dependencies (on fedora) just in case there are other missing features Im not aware of.