fontawesome5 (pro) and XeLaTeX

Question

I am trying to use fontawesome5 with the pro option, hence also with XeLaTeX, and it is a little strange. Consider the following minimal example

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xunicode,fontspec,xltxtra,refcount,amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage[pro]{fontawesome5}%
\faStyle{light}
\begin{document}
  \faIcon{globe}
\end{document}

It takes quite a while to run (MacOS TeXlive 2018), this takes even far longer with more icons and produces an error (for more icons more errors) like

kpathsea:make_tex: Invalid filename `FontAwesome5ProSolid:script=latn;', contains ':'

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome5/fontawesome5-utex-helper.sty:59 Font TU/fontawesomepro/solid/n/10.95=FontAwesome5ProSolid:script=latn; at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.


relax

l.59 ...ze_font:nn{\c__fontawesome_kind_tl}{solid}

and sometimes (not completely reproducible/not appearing every time)

!

! The font "FontAwesome" cannot be found.

!

! See the fontspec documentation for further information.

!

! For immediate help type H .

!...............................................

l.45 \newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome}

But though the compilation then takes quite a wile (for my larger file with 6 icons 5 minutes, the small one above maybe 30 seconds) – a PDF is created that looks fine and as expected.

What's happening there? For me it looks like, though running XeLaTeX it's trying some pdflatex-fun?

Answer 1

The problem consisted of two parts. After I reinstalled FontAwesome Pro, both errors for the MWE were gone, but the first remained for my starting point, the komacv.

With careful inspection I found, that komacv is loading fontawesome already, commenting that out makes my file (loading fontawesome5 myself) compile. I will contact the author of komacv.