Importing/placing pdfs and exporting back to pdf

If a client sends me a pdf in which i need to add printer marks or crop slightly, or convert a spot to process or whatever I usually place the pdf file into a new ID CS3 file, make my changes and then export back out to pdf using my pdf preset. My question is, is this a good practice and can the original pdf lose any quality either in contone images or type/lineart after doing so? In my pdf preset I have compression set to none, save to Acrobat 4 (PDF1.3). Thanks.
-Mark

Images in PDFs are usually downsampled and compressed as JPEG. JPEG compression destroys image data. If you place a PDF then save as a PDF then you are effectively adding destruction to image data, unless you use Zip or None compression. However, in the case of press quality PDFs that damage is miniscule and likely does no visible harm.
Have you tried making these changes to the PDF directly using Acrobat Pro? With Acrobat you con convert spot colours to process and add printer marks.

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