IWork won't allow small text to be antialiased in PDFs

Are there any PDF / iWork / OS X experts out there who can please help with this one?
I have three documents which were to be printed as A5 booklets. As a result I formatted them on A5 pages using small text (7 and 8 point). I know this sounds small but they look fine printed out and the photocopier does a a great job of making the 30 page booklets.
The problem I have is when I export to PDF for use of the documents on screen the 7 and 8 pt text is not antialiased, no matter what zoom setting is used to view the documents. 9 pt text seems to be the smallest text that is antialiased in OS X but at least in Pages when you zoom in the smoothing effect is applied for easy on-screen reading and editing. However, in Preview (or Quicklook) any sub-9 pt text looks awful at every zoom setting even though I have Preview set to 'smooth text and line art'.
The only potential workaround seems to be increasing the page size and scale in 'page setup…' in Pages but because the document is quite complex this leads to a lot of layout errors. I realise now I should have started with a larger page, reducing the scale when printing.
(Just to make things more confusing, Textedit shows unsmoothed sub-9 pt text at every zoom setting but DOES export PDFs with antialiased sub-9 pt text.)
Can anyone see another workaround? Thanks!

Thanks again everyone. It is possible my original issue has become lost with these super-close-ups! Yvan seems to have noticed what I have, so even though his text is huge (and therefore very smooth), you can see that Preview isn't anti-aliasing the text. My problem is viewing the text at relatively small sizes. My 7 and 8 point text end up looking like this in Preview:
If I scale the text up (by altering the page size and scale in Pages > Page setup) then the text looks less jaggy in Preview. Unfortunately this process messes up my formatting throughout the document. These screen grabs were taken while the PDFs were the same size on the screen:
Just to emphasise my point, here is the effect of toggling the 'smooth text and line art' setting in Preview. 7 and 8 point text from Pages is never anti-aliased for me!
Sorry for the delay - away from broadband at the moment so sharing the files was a struggle (and this is the first time I've tried this so bear with me if it doesn't work...)
Thanks again.
John

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