Aperture images make for small PDF at "Best" setting?

I am creating tear sheets and I was saving them as different size PDS via the File/Export/pdf/best
If I use images from my iPhoto library, added through the media browser the "Best" PDF is between 10 and 20MB, as I would expect.
If I replace the images from my Aperture Library the exported PDF at best settings is only 800K.
On the Aperture discussion they suggested changing the preview size that gets exported to iWork. That advice makes perfect sense but it has no effect on the PDF in Pages. I still cant get it to save at over 800K
Is there something in pages that i need to change?
thanks
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