CS3 export to PDF jagged text

My file is just text, and it looks beautiful when I print directly from InDesign. However, when I export to PDF, the text has noticeably jagged edges.
I've tried all the included export settings. I've tried printing to a PDF directly. These all look fine in Acrobat, but lead to the same disappointing results when printed.
PDF files that I didn't produce, print perfectly from Acrobat.
What am I doing wrong?

Michaela
"I changed the color from "leave unchanged" to "RGB" and the file printed pefectly."
When you "leave color unchanged" you are effectively telling InDesign that the printer will interpret the color values in the document. When you change it to something else (ie: RGB or CMYK or greyscale) you are letting indesign decide what color values to send so that the printer will print closer to what you see. The caveat is that your monitor must be calibrated so that you are seeing color values consistently. And as far as your monitor is concerned black is a color (RGB 0 0 0).
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DeLand, Florida USA

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3. The native quality of slideshows as shown by LightRoom is lousy in deep shadows, just as bad as in the Library module, despite it has been rendered 1:1. It is ONLY in the Develop module that shadows are rendered decently, or on export to jpg, or export to a pdf slideshow (but the latter has other problems as I have shown above). So, to make the shadows better, and to avoid various problems with the Slideshow module (such as starting or stopping on the wrong image), I often export to pdf. In addition, color management can behave differently when displaying the show on a separate monitor or projector, where LR and Acrobat sometimes differ, especially on Plasma screens.
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