Keynote to pdf size anomaly

I recently made a small Keynote presentation of just 12 slides, each with a photograph and some minimal text. The size of the doc is 1.8mb. I then exported as a pdf twice.
When I exported as quality ‘good’, the resulting pdf was 3.4mb.
When I exported as quality ‘best’, the resulting pdf was 1.8mb.
Any clues as to the anomaly?
Thanks
Graham

In what can only be a triumph of bad luck I have a medical poster (audit) to submit to the university tomorrow morning and up until tonight have made a number of changes and exported to PDF every time with no problems. I just decided to delete a pretty irrelevant bullet point and then export to send it to the uni. All images and tables within the poster are fine but the text has become pretty dire. Its illegible at best and just plain messy - its helvetica neue but looks more like comic sans in the export. Luckily I have iwork 09 on my MBP as well so am just going to continue from there but its really odd that this should happen now.
I have exported the same file on my MBP and its perfect but still not on the imac. Other files are exporting ok although I am now noticing colour changes etc. Up until tonight nothing was wrong with keynote or preview? at all.
Time machine did something odd today as I changed my external back up to a G drive (not sure if thats even relevant but just a thought - I'm not really tech savvy)
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