Help w/poor quality when printing layout that has a pdf in it to PDF

the problem i am having is plotting from autocad - I have also posted this on an autocad forum but my hunch is that this is an acrobat problem, when I preview the plot everything looks good. What comes out though is a low-res raaster which ilegible. The layout contains a pdf in it and it is this portion that does not look good. I have explored through all the oiptions I can find but nothing has worked thus far.
Can anyone help on this? thanks!

Yes you're right. it's just complicated since there are so many settings within the acrobat plot options.
the pdf that i insert in the layout are made up text and line work, one coming from excel, the other from word. They look good on screen and preserve their vector qualities. I have tried wherever I could find within autocad to change the pdf version to the latest possible...I have also tried removing any compression etc

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