About Atlas

Atlas takes the photographs from a trip, a wedding, a birthday or any day worth keeping, and the words you write about it, and sets them as a magazine — cover, contents, a feature opener with a drop cap, spreads, plates and folios — which you export as a PDF and keep.

The layout is not a template you fill in. The copy is measured against real type, line by line, and poured through the pages until it is spent, so no page overflows and none is left half empty. Photographs are spread evenly through the issue rather than spent all at the front.

Personal photographs are not neutral things. They have your family in them, and the inside of your house, and where you were on a particular day. The ordinary way to build this would be to upload them to a server, render the magazine there and send back a file — and that is a copy of your year on somebody else's disk.

So Atlas composes in the browser instead. Your pictures are read from your device into the tab and stay there; the export is produced by your own browser's print engine. There is no upload, and there is no table in our database that could hold one.

The single exception is the copy desk, which sends the text of your story to be edited and sends the edit back. It is off until you press it, it is never given a photograph, and nothing is kept. The privacy policy sets that out in full.

Wanderer is free and exports a magazine. Traveller and Cartographer add longer issues and more from the editor and the copy desk. The pricing page has the detail, and you can have your money back within 14 days without explaining yourself.

Atlas, at ouratlas.co.in. Write to hello@ouratlas.co.in — it is read by a person.