# Create Julia manual offline

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** documentation, epub
**Created:** [May 6, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412 "2023-05-06T01:36:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![David\_Sagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/david_sagan/32/33792_2.png) [@David\_Sagan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/David_Sagan)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/1 "2023-05-06T01:36:41Z")

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I will have a long flight where I will be offline. I would like to setup on my computer (a mac) an image of the Julia manual to look at during the flight. How can I do this? Thanks for any info.

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### Author: ![George9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/george9000/32/23619_2.png) [@George9000](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/George9000)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/2 "2023-05-06T01:46:40Z")

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Here is a [link](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLang/docs.julialang.org/assets/julia-1.8.5.pdf) to the pdf manual for version 1.8.5. The [main Julia documentation page](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) should always have a link to the pdf.

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### Author: ![David\_Sagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/david_sagan/32/33792_2.png) [@David\_Sagan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/David_Sagan)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/3 "2023-05-06T02:04:43Z")

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> [@George9000](#):
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> link

OK that works. Thanks!

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### Author: ![math4mad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/math4mad/32/49486_2.png) [@math4mad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/math4mad)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/4 "2023-05-06T07:52:16Z")

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Actually almost Julia eco system documents is static html

So Here is a simply routine for offline docs

1. install local http server package . often is NPM http-server
2. git clone doc repo , check out GitHub Pages branch
3. start local http sever from GitHub Pages branch directory

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/5 "2023-05-06T08:29:38Z")

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Also, try the terminal:

```plaintext
open /Applications/Julia-1.9.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/doc/julia/html/en/index.html 

```

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/6 "2023-05-06T10:16:03Z")

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Assuming a big guy in economy class, there won’t be room for most laptops.  
For reading on tablet or mobile phone, [epub is much better](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-documenterepub-jl/53435), with [Julia 1.7 manual epub](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-documenterepub-jl/53435/26) version available here.

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### Author: ![Rich\_Holm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rich_holm/32/220605_2.png) [@Rich\_Holm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rich_Holm)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/7 "2026-02-03T06:16:13Z")

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Anything newer in epub format?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/8 "2026-02-03T07:07:53Z")

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You could try generating it with the package announced in [this thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-documenterepub-jl/53435/26).

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### Author: ![laborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/laborg/32/5474_2.png) [@laborg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/laborg)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-julia-manual-offline/98412/9 "2026-02-03T16:26:47Z")

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I need to update my DocumenterEpub package to be compatible with newer versions of Documenter, but haven’t found time to so far…
