# Does Books.jl work on Julia version 1.7?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** books
**Created:** [December 31, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878 "2021-12-31T21:06:39Z")
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### Author: ![Boadzie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/boadzie/32/32323_2.png) [@Boadzie](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Boadzie)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878/1 "2021-12-31T21:06:39Z")

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does Books.jl work with Julia v.1.7 because I I’m getting an error with the font using Juliav1.7?

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### Author: ![TheCedarPrince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thecedarprince/32/17323_2.png) [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878/2 "2021-12-31T21:46:00Z")

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Hey, I cannot comment on if it works with 1.7, but suggest you also post over in: [Zulip](https://julialang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/302425-books)  
As @rikh and the books community are rather active over there.  
Cheers!

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### Author: ![rikh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rikh/32/204104_2.png) [@rikh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rikh)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878/3 "2021-12-31T23:12:41Z")

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That is a JuliaMono error on PDF building, isn’t it?

If that’s the case, it is because LaTeX (the PDF renderer) cannot grab fonts from a static path and I had to instead let users install it manually. It should be clearer documented indeed. Anyway, can you try installing JuliaMono? PDF building should then work

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### Author: ![Boadzie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/boadzie/32/32323_2.png) [@Boadzie](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Boadzie)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878/4 "2022-01-04T13:33:06Z")

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That works! thanks, soo much!

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### Author: ![rikh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rikh/32/204104_2.png) [@rikh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rikh)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-books-jl-work-on-julia-version-1-7/73878/5 "2022-01-04T14:30:24Z")

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> [@Boadzie](#):
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> That works! thanks, soo much!

Great!

> [@Boadzie](#):
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> does Books.jl work with Julia v.1.7

By the way, I haven’t answered the original question. Yes it does since the 17th of August ([Support Julia 1.7 by rikhuijzer · Pull Request #185 · JuliaBooks/Books.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaBooks/Books.jl/pull/185)).
