Bundle PDF with eBook reader to iPhone app

I have a customer who wants her local newspaper (.pdf) published as an native iPhone app. I 开发者_运维知识库tried to talk her out of it but she wants it to "be cool, with trend and with fancy page flipping - native iPhone app" (...and who ever pays the bills right :/) Nevertheless, is there an easy one-click solution to bundle the PDF with a simple eBook reader and create a XCode project or native app I can upload to the AppStore?

It appears this is called an "eBook framework" or "tablet publishing"

free:

• Leaves which supports PDF and page flip, very beta, forks support zoom and orientation (vergy buggy)
• Baker Framework which supports HTML5 and CSS3 animations (also see the Laker fork)

commercial:

• Apperplace 100$, uses images instead of PDF
• FastPDFKit ~1000$
• TurnPage ~1000$
• WrApps ~2000$
• TouchbooksReader ~ 5000$
• Pixelmags
• RareWire
• WoodWing
• Texterity

also have a look at this, it appears that Adobe and Quark Xpress support iPad publishing too.

You can get a UIWebView to load a pdf - if the pdfs are huge then performance is poor but you might want to experiment thus -

//snippet - wont work without setting up some ivars n the like
NSString* pdfPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"YOUR PDF FILE NAME" ofType:@"pdf"];
NSURL* url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:pdfPath];
NSURLRequest * request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:request];