diff --git a/build/windows/jhbuild/build.jhbuildrc b/build/windows/jhbuild/build.jhbuildrc
index ef62b74ae2..ca3788e0a8 100644
--- a/build/windows/jhbuild/build.jhbuildrc
+++ b/build/windows/jhbuild/build.jhbuildrc
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ module_extra_env.update (
 	{'PREFIX': prefix, 'CFLAGS': os.environ['CFLAGS'] + os.environ['LDFLAGS']},
  'ghostscript':
 	{'CFLAGS': os.environ['CFLAGS'].replace ("-O0", "").replace ("-mms-bitfields", ""), 'ac_cv_lib_pthread_pthread_create': 'no', 'CC': os.environ['CC'] + " -mms-bitfields"},
-  'icu-native': {},
+ 'icu-native': {},
+ 'poppler-data':
+	{'PREFIX': prefix},
 
 # Ensure that gimp doesn't get the host machine's freetype-config
   'gimp-dev':
diff --git a/build/windows/jhbuild/misclibs.moduleset b/build/windows/jhbuild/misclibs.moduleset
index b69d73ac05..bb7ec9d995 100644
--- a/build/windows/jhbuild/misclibs.moduleset
+++ b/build/windows/jhbuild/misclibs.moduleset
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@
 	</dependencies>
 </autotools>
 
+<autotools id="poppler-data" autogen-sh=" || true" makeinstallargs="install prefix=$PREFIX">
+	<branch version="0.4.6" repo="poppler"
+			module="poppler-data-0.4.6.tar.gz"
+			hash="sha1:f030563eed9f93912b1a546e6d87936d07d7f27d">
+	</branch>
+</autotools>
+
 <autotools id="poppler" autogen-sh="configure">
 	<branch version="0.24.3" repo="poppler"
 			module="poppler-0.24.3.tar.xz"
@@ -118,6 +125,9 @@
 		<dep package="imglibs"/>
 		<dep package="cairo"/>
 	</dependencies>
+	<suggests>
+		<dep package="poppler-data"/>
+	</suggests>
 </autotools>
 
 <autotools id="exiv2" autogen-sh="configure"