Pages 5.0: PDF export broken

I removed v5 from my wifes machine. She has been producing catalogs for her business for a number of years now using Pages. With v5 the reduction in size of when exporting to PDF is only marginal - we are left with files that are much too large.
Switching back to v4 solved the problem. I also left this feedback at apple.com.

I tried Dropbox, but when I update the PDF in my dropbox public folder, even though the file has the exact same name, it changes the link. That's what I want to avoid. For now I'm saving the Pages file as PDF to my desktop, opening my FTP program and overwriting the old file in the directly. That's many steps and a hassle. I'm having to update the file a few times a day the last week and I wish there were a way that I could just publish it from Pages directly to some public site and the link not change when changes are made.

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Hi,
I am using SSRS 2008 R2.
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Bill@VT - 5:31am Jun 5, 08 PST (#1 of 2)
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