Your first workspace

When to use this

You’ve just installed Orifold and want to see the whole workflow once, end to end.

Gami's tip

First time? Gami recommends starting with one small PDF. Do the five steps below once and you’ll know 80% of Orifold.

Steps

Launch Orifold. Double-click Orifold.command on your Desktop, or open the app from ~/Applications.
Pick a companion. On first launch you’ll choose Gami (the origami Bernedoodle) or Ori (the origami Siberian) — you can switch anytime.

The empty-state screen, right after picking a companion.
Drop in a few files. Drag 2–3 PDFs, images, or a Word document onto the empty-state screen.
Arrange them. In the sidebar, drag pages into the order you want across all the files you dropped in.
Export once. Press ⌘E or use File → Export, choose PDF, and save.

Tip

Merging isn’t a separate step — the workspace is the merge. Arrange pages in the sidebar until they tell the story you need, then export once.

One exported PDF containing every file you dropped in, in the order you arranged them, saved wherever you chose in the save panel.

You now know most of what Orifold does day to day.

What every part of the interface does.

The merge workflow in more depth.