Comment 8 for bug 1060498

Found the problem.

The .../devlibs32/etc/fonts/fonts.d and fonts.avail are missing 30-metric-aliases.conf. When inkscape builds these become .../inkscape/etc/fonts/fonts.d and ...fonts.avail, and since the files were missing from devlibs, they are also missing from inkscape.

Copied that file from a linux system and dropped it into the fonts.d and fonts.avail directories, then checked times and helvetica - they looked MUCH better. This file is attached. It should be added to the next release of devlibs.

As an aside, does it really make sense to have both fonts.,d and fonts.avail on windows? On linux and presumably OS X the contents of fonts.d are just symlinks to (some of the files in) fonts.avail. In devlibs on Windows though they are just copies. As expected, removing the fonts.avail directory had no effect, since only fonts.d is actually used.