Convert Pages into good quality PDF.

Hi,
I just made a poster in Pages. I converted the file to PDF by using the option: Share > Send by Mail > PDF.
Had never done it before, and don't know much about it, but it turned out great. I sent it to a publisher for printing. But he couldn't use the PDF file because it did not have a good enough quality. The file size is about 500 kB when the Pages size is 3,7 MB.
Is there a better way to get the pages file converted to PDF at the best quality?
Please help
Much appreciated.
-Lillian-

I sent it to a publisher for printing. But he couldn't use the PDF file because it did not have a good enough quality. The file size is about 500 kB when the Pages size is 3,7 MB
Presumably the problem is that the poster includes one or more photographic images. A photographic image is a pattern of picture elements, technically termed pixels.
The pattern of picture elements has a particular density, defined at a point in the process before the photographic image is imported into the pagination software, in this case Apple Pages.
The density of a pattern of picture elements is measured by the number of picture elements across and the number of picture elements down in a square inch. The density is referred to as the resolution or DPI Dots Per Inch.
A display is not able to draw higher densities and usually resolution of around 100 DPI; higher resolutions are downsampled automatically. Thus there is no benefit to adding resolution if the drawing target is displays only.
A large format inkjet is able to draw at resolutions of around 1000 dots per inch and a prepress imagesetter is able to draw at still higher resolutions. If there is insufficient resolution, image detail is insufficient.
Because of sophisticated algorithms for creating pixel clusters of sufficient size to print on a press, and separated into the four process colourants, it is a bit dicey to define the universally right resolution.
Stochastic screening does not need as high resolution for visually satisfactory detail as some aproaches to screening, but in any case what the printer probably meant was that the image resolution should be increased.
Try importing an image resolution of 300DPI for colour images. This should work well in most cases.
/hh

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