Since Richard's recent changes with the text stuff on win32, the text rendering is horribly broken for some reason (text is basically microscopic). I didn't want to throw this in the tracker yet, because we'll be hit pretty hard once .43 releases (but will do so if I don't see a response within a few days). I did have Aaron confirm it as well, so I know it's not just my box. Richard, I know you said it doesn't affect you, but if it's affecting the two of us, something is definitely not right. Do you have something different lib-wise by chance?
Possibly. I'm still running GTK 2.6.5 (Pango 1.8.0). I'll try ishmal's latest once it's finished downloading.
[~\DevStudio\inkscape\inkscape\inkscape]md5sum * 202aec0e4d84d1c2763dbebce6f06e38 *freetype6.dll 6d82da8c008ec535e93ec81c50d1c19d *gdb.exe 050da08562ae60bcddb257d5a9946d99 *iconv.dll b19b06bc29877b4d71486599203d040b *inkscape.exe 94e79cce872ea68d40406d1225c74151 *intl.dll 11f26000bc942e5b69923df5b148ab77 *jpeg62.dll e1ac87c40871045875f14ba248b95b44 *libatk-1.0-0.dll f49d6681374269a3529c2c4b9f31a6c6 *libatkmm-1.6-1.dll 87ee3476c724949278eab260a95e5259 *libfontconfig-1.dll 0bd0e58743d5e038c7ccb7f53a019454 *libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll d168989743cc22428bb48f4abcec93a5 *libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll 44b2671a417eb0de48690b8ed78a1b78 *libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll 8ae4459e4c0cf87c40acafd8fa7c67ae *libglib-2.0-0.dll bfc1d9ab236bb962816bcf5a097b3e50 *libglibmm-2.4-1.dll 10c1cd4c74263323a4dc0239f3aa9938 *libgmodule-2.0-0.dll 8ba89a7138f1f3464f5d4a447256dd7f *libgobject-2.0-0.dll 406f85b8dc9bc6043ca8554663354364 *libgthread-2.0-0.dll 636f47877e0876d68935367534c9b36f *libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll 0ed2e63450fb419085c73a7ced32e36d *libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll 7e118a259b152f936d5172b874e05f02 *libintl-2.dll 1f9f2df5147b3ffedd29ced813527e20 *libpango-1.0-0.dll aeebce396d032cac9a42ed42200e1bce *libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll ffd13949d7e701a02ec12ce32ed49700 *libpangomm-1.4-1.dll 8a24d436f68060b95fed36c4b0213b16 *libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll 03e02cf2eafd6dbf57d39d7470744d60 *libpng13.dll 2353d6e938ef76fc07cc14840147b225 *libsigc-2.0-0.dll 51433f9d3f28389706b5fb8bfd02bb57 *libtiff3.dll b3275604d0ee9fd26b56f0885b331fd7 *libxml2.dll c3b34eafd95d15f158440b83a959d9bf *msvcr70.dll d704e02de2e2f7c420a35e380bce565e *perl58.dll 9f80ce1311435e97837b5360d67145f3 *popt1.dll 0d5418871bf9467f418f631c62b6eaa0 *python24.dll 7e54300733f1a6cec351c8cbd754545c *xmlparse.dll 2e5b06b5dd304d4101cf26e658f00788 *zlib1.dll
You can expect libfontconfig-1.dll to be different because that's my patched version, but it's not being used any more so it won't matter.
Richard.