PDF resolution

I've created a brochure in Pages. There are a couple of jpgs in it, but it's mostly type. The printer I'm uploading the brochure to wants 300 dpi PDF files. I see there are a couple of ways to save the file as PDF I see no place where I can determine the resolution. Thank you for your help.
I've had good luck in the past with this printer when using jpgs, however upon reading threads here, I'm not sure that I shouldn't open them up in PS and make sure they are saved CYMK. Thoughts?

I see there are a couple of ways to save the file as PDF I see no place where I can determine the resolution.
You set the resolution in your colour capture software (Apple Pages, Adobe Lightroom, for instance). You may verify your resolution by opening the image e.g. in Apple Aperture and selecting Get Info.
I've had good luck in the past with this printer when using jpgs, however upon reading threads here, I'm not sure that I shouldn't open them up in PS and make sure they are saved CYMK.
1. JPEG is lossy, normally one would work in TIFF up to embedding the image in the PDF page description.
2. CYMK meaning a laydown order with cyan, yellow, magenta and black? Why not, who knows. In any case, the laydown order is captured in the ICC profile for the printing condition (yellow on top of black or black on top of yellow is not the same colour in secondaries, tertiaries etc.). The size and shape of the colour gamut the printing condition supports is part of what is defined in its ICC profile. The print shop should tell you what printing condition it is selling, and direct you to the ICC profile that describes that printing condition.
Systems that process PDF printing masters would be doing so as PDF/X, of what there are several variants. OS X supports the PDF/X-3 variant that lets you place 300 DPI RGB photographs within which you have embedded the ICC profile for the colour capture system (scanner RGB space, camera RGB space) or correction space (e.g. AdobeRGB, PhotoGamutRGB or what you will), embed the ICC profile for the printing condition, and save that out as a legal PDF/X-3 printing master. Legal meaning that the printing master will pass a verification, but dumbed down so far that you can't be absolutely sure what colour appearance you are buying because you can't configure a proof preview at all. This is not ideal, but there it is.
/hh

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