Pdf quality problem

I put my slides on-line for students in the form of pdf files. To conserve paper, I put four slides per page but the quality is terrible, much of the text is barely readable. The font size is large enough that there should be no problem (If I manually reduce the size of the slide to 1/4 it is still fine). ARe ther settings that control the quality that I can play with, or an alternate approach?
Thanks

This is very odd. I just made a test PDF of a document I create to help somebody with an anagram problem where it was anagramming all the text and they only want one phrase to anagram then the other after it. So I made some of the text a graphic object in Preview and replaced the Text text object, if that makes sense.
Not only is the PDF perfectly rendered to any scale/zoom, the graphic of the second phrase has been converted back to text that can be highlighted with the text selection tool in Preview and Adobe Reader. Almost as if it has OCRed it.
So to answer your questions, text should be vector based and therefore readable at any scale. I am guessing that 10mm below where you set the number of slides per page you have a check-box ticked for "Draft Quality Printout". The text will be bitmapped and terrible. Why it was programmed this way is best known to Apple, given that it would be using more file bytes than the postscript to render the text at full-resolution.

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