Move & edit objects
Object editing is new in v0.8.8 and still growing. It works today on unrotated pages for images, logos, lines, and simple shapes — you can move, resize, delete, and (new in v0.8.11) restack them front-to-back. Duplicate, recolor, multi-select, and rotated-page support are on the way. Feedback helps it mature.
You want to grab a real graphic that’s baked into the page — an image, a logo, a stray line, a shape — and move it, resize it, or delete it. Not a sticky note floating over the page, but the actual object in the PDF.
- Pick the Select tool from the toolbar (next to Edit Text).
- Click a graphic on the page. If Orifold can edit it, a selection outline with handles appears.
- Then:
- Move — drag the object to a new spot.
- Resize — drag a corner or edge handle.
- Layer — right-click the object for Bring to Front or Send to Back, to move it above or behind the other graphics on the page.
- Delete — press Delete, or click the red delete button on the selection (also in the right-click menu).
- The page updates immediately. Use ⌘Z / ⌘Y to undo and redo.
Your edits are written into the file’s actual content — a moved image really moves, a deleted shape is really gone, with no ghost left behind and no duplicate. They survive save, reopen, and export, and open correctly in other PDF viewers.
What Orifold can and can’t edit
Section titled “What Orifold can and can’t edit”Not every mark on a page is a separate, editable object — some are fused into a scan, some are drawn as one operation. Orifold tells you what it’s selected, and what it can do with it, rather than silently doing nothing.
- Editable now: images, logos, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and simple filled or stroked shapes.
- Detected but limited: reused graphics (edits affect just the one copy), form fields (reposition/remove only), and gradients (shown for reference).
- Not separately editable: scanned or flattened pages, where the whole thing is one image — move or replace the whole image, but the marks inside a scan can’t be picked apart.
You can combine object editing and inline text editing in the same document. Orifold replays both kinds of operation together from one clean base, so changing text does not put a moved graphic back and moving a graphic does not discard edited text. Rotated pages are still not object-editable yet; the object stays selectable but can’t be moved.
Object editing is for graphics that were already in the page when you opened it. Things you added — stamps, watermarks, and signatures — are moved and removed with their own tools, and page text is edited in place with Edit Text.