Page Display Resolution

Windows 7. Illustrator CS5. Acroabt Pro X
An artist created a document in Illustrator which has embedded screenshots. Screenshots are 72 ppi and not scaled.
He sent me the AI file and I saved it from Illustrator as a PDF and then viewed in Acrobat.
At 100% zoom, the page shows larger in PDF than in Illustrator. Making the screenshots look rather blurry.
After some exploring I found a setting for Page Display Resolution. It was set to custom (I cant remember the ppi, but perhaps 110?). My other choice was system setting (96 ppi). That was too be as well. So I changed it to 72 and now its fine.
So I kinda understand where they are going with it. However, this is a Program setting, right? Not a document setting. Is there any way to set something like this so that anyone who gets this PDF will see the images at the right resolution at 100% zoom?
Maybe there is something else going on here that I dont get...
Thanks
kaz

You should be able to set that in the creation process. There is a display resolution in the Adobe PDF printer properties under the Advanced button. The default is 1200 dpi.

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Hello
Is it possible to fix the display resolution of a PDF file at 96 pixels/inch by some means?
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Not having problem with the pdf file autostarting, there are no movies or sounds in PDF file only transitions with auto flip are used. My issue is getting the file to display at correct size and resolution with the full screen mode also turned on in the document properties (running acrobat 9 pro on mac os 10.5.8). Using 100% or actual size or fit page in the initial view setting seems to not effect this when the full screen mode also is selected. I want the file to display at its correct size and resolution, I thought that using 100% vs actual size would make the file display at its 8.5 x 11 size or what ever size is used regardless of monitor size it is displayed on. PDF file seem to do this when the full screen mode is not used.
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On Dec 27, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Phillip Jones wrote:
Have you tried before creating a PDF going to preferences > Page display and set to 100%, fit width, or fit visible to see which works the best.
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