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I am building an interactive training manual for a fire department and I need to find out the best way to publish this document for use on an iPad or other tablet. I will be embedding video, text, and photos, along with stacking photos for the 360 degree view. So far I have read that there is a 2GB size limitation for articles. I've also read that there is was way to publish privately if it becomes difficult to download from acrobat.com. I would like this training manual to be all inclusive without having to break it up into multiple articles. I would like to embed over 3 hours of video, over 200 photographs, over 260 pages of text, and have interactivity throughout. Is this out of inDesign's scope? Is there a way to publish this large of a document to multiple iPads without using the App Store or Android Market? I'm just starting out so I'm looking forward for any constructive help I can get.

HOW interactive are we talking here? Buttons with rollovers, menus, or the ability to fill in answers like a workbook?
A freelance client of mine wanted to prepare a workbook with "interactivity" and all looked well... until i was told what "interactive" meant. This example was a science workbook for schools which behaved as a facsimile of the normal book which would be filled in by hand, except that answers were not always checkboxes or text. Sometimes answers would be:
plot a graph
draw a picture of an amoeba (for example) and label the parts; or draw the diagram of isopropyl alcohol;
fill in a crossword
join the correct reducing agent to the correct oxidising agent
AFAIK this kind of interactivity isn't possible with the off-the-shelf indesign, and i don't know of any third party software which provides this kind of interactivity. Yes, the author could have been asked to rephrase the questions to fit the limitations of indesign's fill-in forms and interactivity, but the author did not want this.
Also, is tablet-specific software the right platform to use? Perhaps a website with a paywall may be a better form of distribution and construction, allowing a RIA (Rich Internet Application) to be made for the project.

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