[Tex/LaTex] fontawesome and pdflatex

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When using pdflatex and the fontawesome package the below error shows up.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-pdftex"
! 
! The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX to function.
! 
! You must change your typesetting engine to, e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex"
! instead of plain "latex" or "pdflatex".
! 
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
! 
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................

Wish to keep on using "pdflatex" instead of "xelatex" or "lualatex".

In fontawesome Version 4.4.0 manual it says "When using the (pdf)(LA)TEX
engine, the fontawesome package doesn’t require any external package".

Tried solutions proposed for this question (Fontawesome doesn't scale up) without success.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
{\faAdjust}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Thanks to @AkiraKakuto, the problem was that MikTex was still using old versions of the fontawesome package from the AppData/Roaming folder despite the package was updated using the package manager and the "update app" within MiKTex.

The problem is solved by deleting the fontawesome folder within AppData/Roaming/MiKTex/'version'.

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These option clashes happen when a package is requested to be loaded on two different positions, like by you and inside another package, but with different options. The package is loaded by the first \usepackage (or its twin \RequirePackage); it isn't loaded again when it is requested again. It simply can't be loaded a second time. Therefore the new options can be activated and previous options might conflict with the second usage. So LaTeX creates an error to report this issue to you.

The way to fix this is to declare the options beforehand using \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>}. Then they are used wherever the package is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
    \PassOptionsToPackage{pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{libertine} % most likely loads 'color' itself
    %\usepackage{lmodern} % doesn't load 'color'
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
    %\bye
\fi
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I can't test it by myself, because I don't have the libertine package installed.

PS:

I don't think you need to set pdftex manually. Normally packages do a good job recognizing the driver by themselves. Also you might want to use the extended xcolor package instead of color.

[Tex/LaTex] libertine font package doesn’t work anymore (December 2011)

Update your system, then you'll get the old libertine package as libertine-legacy and then it should work as usual. The new package libertineotf supports only xetex and luatex.

With the current TeXLive and MiKTeX as of end of 2012 there is only one package libertine.sty which can be used as

\usepackage[options]{libertine}

Depending on what was run (xelatex/lualatex/pdflatex), it loads by itself the package fontspec or fontenc and does all the configuration.

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[Tex/LaTex] libertine font package doesn’t work anymore (December 2011)

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