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Your printed edition,
made for the screen

Keep everything readers love about your newspaper or magazine, and give them more ways to enjoy it. Editions brings your pages to phones, tablets and the web, with adjustable text, interactive puzzles, archive search and full-screen advertising.

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Foreign Policy’s Fall 2026 issue: the opening feature spread in the desktop web reader, the Overgrowth page on a tablet, and the magazine view in the native phone app.
Foreign Policy, Fall 2026. The magazine in the native app; spreads and pages in the web reader.

Easy to browse.
Easy to settle into

Swipe to turn the page, double-tap to zoom in to print size, or swipe down to browse the whole issue at a glance.

More than 15 years of refinement make these gestures feel familiar from the first page.

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Foreign Policy, Fall 2026 · 12-page excerpt, 12 pages
Scroll sideways to browse the pages. Try browsing the first 12 pages of Foreign Policy’s Fall 2026 issue, rendered by Editions. The sample ad was added for this demo.

  1. Swipe to turn the page

    The page tracks your finger as you swipe.

  2. Double-tap to read at print size

    Text appears at its printed size, or larger if you’ve increased the text size in your device settings. Double-tap again to see the whole page.

  3. Pinch to zoom

    Zoom in for a closer look, then drag to move around the page. Text stays sharp at every size.

  4. Find your next read at a glance

    From the full-page view, swipe down or pinch in to see all the spreads. Tap a page to open it.

  5. Swipe past ads to keep reading

    Full-screen ads appear between spreads. Scroll vertically inside a multi-page ad, then swipe sideways to continue reading.

Adaptive reading mode

Small screen?
Make yourself comfortable

Let readers switch from the printed page to a single column that fits their screen and preferred text size.

The text, pictures and typefaces come straight from your final PDF, so each article matches the printed edition word for word.

  1. A column that fits the screen

    Lines adapt to the available width. Even on a wide screen, the column stays comfortable to read.

  2. The reader chooses the text size

    Change the text size without losing your place.

  3. One continuous article

    Text flows from one paragraph to the next, even when it spans several columns or pages in print. Pictures and captions stay with the article.

  4. One article at a time

    Focus on the article you’ve chosen, even when it shares a page with another story. Return to the page whenever you want to keep browsing.

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Print page 7.
Print page 8.
Print page 9.
A three-page Foreign Policy article, with its original type and photograph extracted from the PDF. The browser and iOS app use the same layout engine.

Checked before publication

Automated checks verify the content and layout of every article before it becomes available in reading mode. Articles that don’t pass remain available on the original page.

  1. 01

    Extract

    Extract the type, images and page information from the PDF.

  2. 02

    Structure

    Identify and assemble the text and images that belong to the article.

  3. 03

    Design

    Create a layout plan for a single-column reading view.

  4. 04

    Render

    Fit the validated article to the reader’s screen.

Type that stays sharp
as you zoom

Editions processes your PDFs before publication, so the reader’s device can display each page with its original layout intact.

01 · Before publication

Prepared once, ready for every reader

We separate the PDF into text, photographs and graphics, then store each in the format best suited to it.

The device downloads the processed content and assembles the page. We use the same renderer on iOS, Android and the web to keep pages consistent across platforms.

  1. Photograph layer: six contributor portraits in their original positions.
  2. Graphics layer: six fine rules and the red Foreign Policy logo, separate from the portraits and text.
  3. Text layer: the contributors heading, biographies, staff names and publication details.
Foreign Policy, Fall 2026, printed page 4. The contributors page separates into text, graphics and photographs. Switch to the complete page to see them come together.
02 · When zooming

Redrawn at the new size

As the reader zooms, Editions redraws the letters at the new size from their original shapes, positioning them to within 1/32 of a pixel.

Only the visible part of the page is drawn. Rendered letter shapes stay in memory to keep zooming smooth.

The same area redrawn by Editions at 4× magnification, with sharp letter edges.
An enlarged image of the page at phone-screen resolution. Letter edges look blurry and jagged.
The same area of the page. At 1×, the page is as wide as a phone screen.
03 · Down to the pixel

Keep the character of your type

A letter’s edge rarely falls exactly on a pixel boundary. Editions calculates the edge pixels from the precise shape, using 1–32× supersampling and 256 levels of coverage.

Gamma correction accounts for the way screens display brightness when blending type with its background. Without it, edges darken and the text looks heavier than it should.

A text detail enlarged to show individual screen pixels and intermediate tones at letter edges.
Gamma-corrected
Uncorrected

Actual size. Without correction, the same text looks darker and heavier.

Black and whiteGamma-corrected greySimple average

Step back from the stripes. A surface that is half black and half white looks like the gamma-corrected grey, rather than the simple average of the colour values.

The daily puzzle
comes with you

Give readers the same crosswords and sudoku they enjoy in print, ready to solve on screen.

Editions detects the grid and fillable cells directly from your PDF. For crosswords, it also identifies where each answer starts and ends. Your team doesn’t have to recreate a thing.

Original newspaper sudoku, 12 October 2019, page 17
Newspaper sudoku · 12 October 2019, page 17
An excerpt from the printed puzzle. Editions uses computer vision to detect the cells you can fill in.

  1. Tap a cell and type

    Your answer appears in the original grid. In the apps, selecting a sudoku cell brings up a numeric keyboard.

  2. Crosswords keep their original clues

    Tap to select a cell and its word. Tap again to switch direction. As you type, the selection moves to the next cell.

  3. Pick up where you left off

    Your answers are saved on your device.

Richie Ads

Give advertisers
the whole screen

Create space for image, video and rich media campaigns in addition to the ads already on your printed pages.

Richie Ads appear between spreads. Readers swipe past them just as they turn a page.

A sample ad between spreads.Readers swipe from the page to the ad, then swipe again to keep reading.

A natural part of the edition

There’s nothing to dismiss before opening an article: readers simply swipe to continue. Readers respond more positively to this format than to other display advertising.

Let the creative do the work

With the screen to itself, an ad can make its point with simple, understated creative.

100% viewability

Each ad fills the screen when shown, delivering 100% measured viewability.

Place ads by section

Place an ad at the beginning or end of a section, such as before world news or after its final spread.

Ads are managed separately from the edition. In apps that support dynamic placements, you can change them without reprocessing the issue.

Ready before the page turns

Ads download in advance, ready to display even when the reader is offline.

The device records impressions and interactions offline, then sends them for reporting when it reconnects.

Impressions, clicks and interactions

Reports cover impressions, clicks and interactions within the ad. An API lets you bring the results into your own systems.

Advertising and measurement do not require reader profiling.

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Give old stories a new audience

Make your back issues easy to explore with full-text search. They can filter by date and open each result on the original page, complete with photographs and ads.

Publishers use our archive technology to make more than 150 years of journalism searchable. This example shows real search results across more than 900,000 pages of Helsingin Sanomat and its predecessor, Päivälehti.

906,502 pages, 1889–1997. Source: HS Aikakone, Finland.

Titanic appears on 886 pages.

  1. 17 April 1912

    Titanic has sunk after colliding with an iceberg. 675 passengers and the crew have been taken aboard the Cunard steamship Carpathia, which is continuing to New York.

    Translated from Finnish

  2. 4 September 1985

    …The legendary Titanic. The giant that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage lies in the depths. The wreck of the passenger liner Titanic was found on the seabed over the weekend…

    Translated from Finnish

  3. 28 December 1997

    …the musical Titanic at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 46th Street. Titanic is once again the ship of the year, at least in the entertainment world. James Cameron’s…

    Translated from Finnish

Actual results from the Editions search engine, with the original Finnish issue covers and English translations of the excerpts. The translations reflect the original reporting. The chart shows up to 2,000 of the most relevant results for each query.

Keep the original context

A result opens on the newspaper page, with the match highlighted. Readers can explore what else was being reported at the time.

Find a story you remember

Search individual words or exact phrases and narrow the date range. Karjalainen’s Kaiku archive reaches back to 1874; HS Aikakone gives readers access to past issues of Helsingin Sanomat and Päivälehti.

You send the PDFs.
We’ll take it from there

Deliver your PDFs over SFTP. Editions prepares the pages and publishes the issue automatically at the agreed time.

Need to make a change? Your team can reorder pages, upload corrections and edit the table of contents in our browser-based publishing tools.

Editions publishing tools showing the cover and opening spreads of Foreign Policy’s Fall 2026 issue.
Publishing tools. Showing Foreign Policy’s Fall 2026 issue.

Send pages over SFTP

  • Send the whole issue or one page at a time; resending a page replaces it
  • Issue dates and page numbers are read from filenames
  • Import section information from your editorial system’s page plan, where supported
  • Publish at the agreed time, including the evening before the issue date
  • Choose who receives email alerts if a transfer fails

Manage issues in your browser

  • Drag pages to reorder them
  • Drop a new or corrected PDF page into place
  • Edit article titles and the table of contents
  • Share a preview link before publication
  • Set each user’s access level: viewer, editor or administrator
  1. 01

    Receive

    PDF pages arrive over SFTP or through the publishing tools. Processing begins once the upload is complete.

  2. 02

    Prepare

    Editions prepares text, photographs and graphics for the screen. If enabled, it also indexes the text for archive search and detects puzzles using computer vision.

  3. 03

    Distribute

    Richie’s own delivery network distributes the prepared issue to readers in Europe and North America.

  4. 04

    Publish

    The issue becomes available in apps and on the web at the agreed publication time. Readers can download it in the app to read offline.

Add Editions to
your app or website

Use our reader in the app or website you already have, or ask us to build an app for your publication.

In your existing app

Add the edition reader with our iOS and Android SDKs. Your existing subscriber services handle sign-in and content access.

SDK documentation

On the web

Let readers browse current issues and archives in their browser, with links that open a specific issue or page.

In a Richie app

Bring editions, news and audio together in your publication’s own app.

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Let’s arrange a demo with your own pages.

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