Hi Res Pdf Problem

I was trying to make a hi res pdf of a InDesign page to use as a piece of art in a Quark file. Every time I tried to make the pdf the way I usually do, which is thru our printers PPD and then distilling in Acrobt Distiller, the art would get res-ed down to 150ppi. When that didn't work I tried making a ps file directly, and I tried printing thru the Acrobat 8 ppd. Still the art got res-ed down. There were 2 pieces of art in the InDesign file, both 300 dpi psds, and I had the print setting under AdvancedTransparency Flattener Preset set to high resolution. Finally, I tried Export and was able to make the pdf hi-res, but I had to do that 3 times until I saved it down to Acrobat 5 for Quark to recognize it. Can anyone tell me why I was able to get the hi-res out of the Export option and not by making the ps file which is the way I ALWAYS make hi-res pdfs? IS there a setting in InDesign that I missed when I was making them today or does it have something to do with the artwork? I know the distikker setting are good bc I made a few hi-res pdf files today w/no problem. Thanks in advance for any help w/this.

>thru our printers PPD and then distilling in Acrobt Distiller
Distiller is using the current job option preset, which in this case one that downsamples to 150 PPI. If you open Distiller, select a another preset, close Distiller, the next time you create a PDF with this method, it will be created with the current or last selected job option.

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