Creating a PDF Brochure from Photoshop

I've created individual pages for a brochure in Photoshop. I save each page as a TIFF, open it up on Photoshop and then save to PDF from that.
I then use PDF Optimizer to bring the file size down a bit, but it's not really enough. My images are 300 RES and if I start to lower the Resolution of them there are noticable losses in quality.
Another thing i've noticed which is bugging me, my fonts don't appear in the Optimizer? Even when i've left my Font layers separate and just saved straight to a PDF from PSD. My font loses quality when I lower the resolution in PDF Optimizer so I assume that my fonts are being classed as images?
Would a better option be to produce my images and artwork in Photoshop, save as a TIFF and then take the file into InDesign to add all of the fonts?
The PDF has 6 pages basically and I just want it to be under, say 3 MB.

mozza34 wrote:
...Would a better option be to produce my images and artwork in Photoshop, save as a TIFF and then take the file into InDesign to add all of the fonts?...
That sounds like a fabulous idea. Don't tell Adobe about that. They might develop an entire industry around that very sensible workflow.

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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM, lrosenth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Re: How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?
>
> created by lrosenth in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full
> discussion
> ________________________________
>
> No clue who Irving is…
>
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> I have no clue what OS platform, programming language, etc. you use so
> can’t really narrow things down.
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