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I have followed the instructions that is given in this post for fontawesome icons that are too big using XeLaTeX. I was able to use FontForge and change the Em Size to 1000. I also used the following FontForge’s Python script to generate a new font:

import fontforge
font = fontforge.open("C:/Windows/Fonts/FontAwesome.otf")
font.em = 1000
font.generate("C:/Windows/Fonts/FontAwesome-1000upm.otf")

I then copied FontAwesome-1000upm.otf to my LaTeX project directory and also installed it in my Windows. I also added \newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome-1000upm} to the preamble of my document after \usepackage{fontawesome} but XeLaTeX complains that it cannot find the font.

fontspec error: "font-not-found" The font "FontAwesome-1000upm" cannot be found. For immediate help type H <return>. \newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome-1000upm}

When I check C:/Windows/Fonts, I can only see FontAwesome Regular. However, the directory list shows something else:

C:\Windows\Fonts>dir fontawesome*
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is B8DD-C28E

 Directory of C:\Windows\Fonts

05/05/2015  11:39 AM           101,524 FontAwesome-1000upm.otf
05/05/2015  11:39 AM           101,524 FontAwesome-1000upm_0.otf
04/17/2015  08:56 PM            93,888 FontAwesome.otf
04/17/2015  08:56 PM            93,888 FontAwesome_0.otf
04/17/2015  08:56 PM            93,888 FontAwesome_1.otf
04/17/2015  08:56 PM            93,888 FontAwesome_2.otf

Could someone help me what I am missing?

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This is fixed by passing the path as an option to \newfontfamily:

\newfontfamily{\FA}[Path = C:/Windows/Fonts/]{FontAwesome-1000upm}
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