PDF Emergency!

Hello all,
A little bit of background: I handle the communication/marketing for a NPO with a tiny budget. Decided an e-newsletter would be a great idea to rally up some of the local business owners and maybe generate some donations. I finished a GREAT interactive design (well, I'm no design professional but I think it's pretty spiffy), with show/hide rollover effects and hyperlinks and what-nots.
So, got to the next step--export to PDF. Other than color management issues, everything is A-ok.
EXCEPT...in order to be sure everyone who receives the email looks at it, I want the PDF newsletter to show in the email viewing pane rather than as a downloadable attachment. I've been told by two of my IT friends that it's impossible.
A) somebody PLEASE tell me if there's a way to export it from InDesign into an extension that makes this viewing option possible.
B) if it is not, what do I need to do? Somebody suggested using MS Word...vomit...I certainly hope I don't have to resort to such desperate measures.
Thank you for any help you can offer!!!

EXCEPT...in order to be sure everyone who receives the email looks at it, I want the PDF newsletter to show in the email viewing pane rather than as a downloadable attachment. I've been told by two of my IT friends that it's impossible.
A) somebody PLEASE tell me if there's a way to export it from InDesign into an extension that makes this viewing option possible.
B) if it is not, what do I need to do? Somebody suggested using MS Word...vomit...I certainly hope I don't have to resort to such desperate measures.
I don't see how you can have any control whatsoever over your readership's mail clients. That is the determining factor here, not anything about InDesign or the PDFs you are making. People might read your email with Outlook, Gmail, Thunderbird, Groupwise... you have no control here.

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