Exporting to pdf changes the resolution

Good day,
I have a document 800px wide in InDesign. When I export it to .pdf and set to 100% zoom it's way more than 800px. The exported .PDF at 100% zoom takes about 1200px instead of 800px and looks awful!! If I export it to .JPG it will export correctly and be 800px at 100% zoom.
Please help, this is really annoying, just want the pdf look like it supposed to look, I tried everything I knew.
Thanks

Ok. If the page size in ID is the same size in the PDF, there is not an issue. Really, no issue.
Perhaps you are accustomed to working in pixels in an image editing application. An image editing application, based as they are in pixels (no matter the units used to set the page up with few exceptions), is not the same as ID, which is a page layout application and does not think in pixels as noted above.
If your page is 8.5" in width as I think it is, then the PDF will be 8.5" in width. That is all that is really necessary to understand (not that ID thinks in inches, either per se).
In general, one would not use ID to create images for the web (pixel units) or for an image editing application (with exceptions I suppose). One would use the image editing application to compose images to be placed into ID for various publishing output intents.
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