Greetings, straw33. Since 2000 till present, I became a freelancer in several publishers in Jakarta. I have used software Freehand MX for design book cover and Ventura Desktop Publishing, PageMaker and InDesign to work my layout. But Indesign is my choice. Why, because Indesign has a very nice feature especially paragraphs style, characters style, tables style and object style. This feature is needed to accelerate the layout work. Indesign is very suitable for this project. In addition, Indesign also very compatible with other programs, especially with MS Office as an initial matter. And it's perfect generate a PDF file as a result (include generate interactive hyperlink). Most of versions of Indesign I already use (CS1, CS2 , CS4 , CS5 and CS6).
As you say, you are concerned about publishing. For that, I need the Exploring_the_Cloud file in original format, this important to ensure the result that I done, exactly the original format.
If you want, I will do an example with the document you have, then submit the result to you (a part that important include hyperlink sample)
I waiting your response. Thanks. Kusmin.