Comment 20 for bug 1416674

at the risk of stating the obvious, I believe that the only way to re-enable the USE_PANGO_WIN32 flag will be to somehow bypass or temporarily disable the OpenType code that was committed in rev 14215.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/14215
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- when using the USE_PANGO_WIN32 flag, the typical call one sees is 'pango_win32_font_cache_load' which comes from the dll 'libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll'

- when not using this flag, the typical call one sees is 'pango_fc_font_lock_face' which comes from the dll 'libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll'.

- the OpenType code committed in rev 14215 introduced a new type of call to 'pango_ot_info_get' which also comes from 'libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll'.

since these two dll's do not seem to overlap in any way, it seems that it will be necessary to avoid executing the OpenType code before the USE_PANGO_WIN32 flag can be re-enabled.

Any feedback of any sort would be greatly appreciated ...