Hi, all.
One of the guys on the channel asked me if Inkscape runs with Poppler 0.8.3. I didn't know that Poppler had released anything recently, so I gave it a try on win32.
Inkscape's sneaky use of some private Poppler APIs finally bit us! :-). There is a small change in GfxFont::getNextChar() that needs to be addressed for Poppler-0.8.3+. <tsdgeos> on #poppler kindly showed me the tweak, which I committed.
To be able to use the latest Poppler and this fix, compile with -DPOPPLER_NEW_GFXFONT
It seems to run nicely. But you must recompile. Do NOT use the new Poppler shared objects or DLLs without recompiling, else it is a crasher.
The tweak is just something to keep Inkscape compiling. Miklos, can you look at this? I'm sure there is a cleaner, more permanent fix out possible.
thanks!
bob