Help!  InDesign Digital Portolio PDF Blurry & Pixelated

Hello,
I am creating a digital portfolio of graphics (all 72dpi) to be viewed on screen (not printed), but when I explort a PDF and view at 100%, my images look blurry & pixelated.  It looks like it may be explorting the document as 300dpi, but I am using the 'digital publishing' setting and have all compression setting turned off.  I must be missing something really obvious, but I am scratching my head trying to figure this out.  Anyone have any suggestions? 
I am basically just taking my portfolio from my website and putting each graphic on a page in a PDF to be viewed on screen.  Not intended for print.
Thanks so much!

I think your problem is with using the images from you web site. InDesign must be resampling the images especially if they are resized in InDesign. If you have the original images at a higher resoluion, use those in InDesign.

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