Images shrink from Indesign CS4 to PDF

I design ads at a set size in a frame in Indesign CS4. I just noticed that when I print them to PDF (regardless of the PDF distiller settings), they shrink. I have the print dialog box settings at 100%. Printing to a physical printer does not have this problem. How can I get 100% to mean 100% when I print to PDF? It has nothing to do with my art. I could just have a box frame, and it would shrink that.

The original is 7.25 wide. The PDF is about 6.75 wide.(Height is proportional in both).
I am not printing FROM PDF. I am printing TO PDF. The magazine production rep was the first one to notice how off the PDF file was. At first, I had created the page size to be the size of the ad. That produced an even smaller PDF of the ad on letter paper than after I recreated the ad on a letter sized page to begin with. It is still off by about .5 inch though.
And if I do print from PDF, I am set to no scaling (not shrink or fit).

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