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I'm using TeXLive + TeXMaker to write a paper and I need to include the font Scala Sans Pro, which I have as a set of otf files in the local directory as part of the file. After much wrangling with lcdftools I was only able to install the Regular version of the font, and then I finally gave up and started using xelatex.

Now I can get it to work, but it's slooooow, every single time, and much slower since I switched to importing it like this (which is necessary to get BoldItalics to work):

\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setsansfont[
Extension       = .otf,
Path            = Fonts/ScalaSansPro/,
UprightFont     = *-Regular,
BoldFont        = *-Bold,
ItalicFont      = *-Italic,
BoldItalicFont  = *-BoldItalic]{ScalaSansPro}

It's taking like 5+ minutes for every single build. I don't mind waiting 5-10 minutes to build the document once, but is there some way to have TeXLive or TexMaker cache the font so I don't have to build it every time? Otherwise this would be intolerable.

(The way I used to do it it would take 30-60 second to build, and that was by using \setsansfont(ScalaSansPro), but for whatever reason ScalaSansPro-BoldItalic installed as a separate font, so bold-italics weren't detected by xelatex

Edit: The 5-10 minute thing has stopped, so maybe it's already cache-ing - but it's still pretty slow (30-60 second build times, significantly slower than pdflatex was). I'll leave this question up and hopefully someone can explain if this is a font problem or what.

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Even tough it may seem trivial to you, could you complement your code to be a minimal working example (MWE), i.e. it should start with \documentclass and end with \end{document}. Also, if I wanted to try to reproduce your problem, where could I get Scala Sans Pro from? – doncherry Oct 12 '12 at 4:05
OK, I'll edit the code tonight. As far as I know you'd have to buy Scala Sans Pro or have it come as part of a software package or something. – Paul Oct 12 '12 at 20:30
Is there any other font that yields a similar problem? (One that a lot of people have or that you can get easily = freely) – doncherry Oct 13 '12 at 0:01

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