Graphic quality in PDF

I'm converting PowerPoint slides to PDFs. One image in particular (our company logo) is not faring well in the conversion. I've tried changing the dpi of the output, changing the quality settings for images, changing the downsampling settings -- nothing seems to produce a clean looking logo. Any other tips on what to try in order to end up with clean PDF output from a graphic?
Orson

What is different about the logo?
What type of file did you use to insert in to Powerpoint? Was it vector or bitmap?
There's a lot we don't know from the little information you have given so any details you may want to add would be helpful like what version of Acrobat you have, what version of Powerpoint, the exact steps you have taken to create the PDF...etc.

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