Otherwise, things might appear out of their intended order, and that could make for some interesting reading. Just pay close attention to where you want pages to appear before dropping them to their new location. As far as I can tell, you can only move one page at a time, so you'll have to repeat this process for every page that you want to move. Drag the page to the new location, and release the mouse button. Rearranging the pages is as simple as drag and drop. Even the internal page numbers will be messed up, as evidenced by the screenshot above, which shows page 8 immediately after page 3. Also, the page numbers, which are applied dynamically by Scribus when the final version of the magazine is created, will appear out of order. Note that the internal links will not (at least on this computer) work properly. For S&Gs, I used PDF Shuffler to change the page order from mine and then Meemaw's article, to Meemaw's article and then mine (I swapped their order). In the version of the PDF that we released, the first several pages go in the order of cover, table of contents, my monthly "welcome" column, my gift guide article, Meemaw's holiday gift guide article, then David's holiday gift guide article.
In the example above, I used the magazine's December 2022 issue to illustrate. It does this graphically (the same thing can be accomplished with a command-line tool), so the user can see how the page order is rearranged. PDF Shuffler really has ONE job, and that is to rearrange the pages of a PDF file. It's a gray area, but we need to "draw a line" and make a distinction somewhere. Editing the contents of a PDF file changes the information conveyed in the PDF, while merely changing the page order or page orientation of a PDF file does not inherently change the contents of the file, nor the information conveyed. Some may argue that editing and manipulating PDF files are the same thing. The next article, "PDF Part 3B," will focus on the command-line tools for manipulating PDF files. This article, "PDF Part 3A," will deal with the GUI programs you can use to manipulate the structure and orientation of a PDF file. So, I've decided to break the third article down into two related articles. But when I looked closer, I discovered there are several GUI programs that help with manipulating PDF files, and even more command-line programs for manipulating PDF files. My original plans were to have a three part article series that covered the creation of PDF files, the editing of PDF files, and finally, the manipulation of PDF files. PDF Part 3A: Manipulating PDF Files, GUI Style
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