Preserve Artwork-JPEGs Distorting in PDF

Hi Community,
I'm creating a style guide for a web site in Adobe Illustrator and the document contains various Photoshop elements of the web site. When I save this document to a PDF, all the JPEG images distort slightly regardless of the settings I choose. I've tried even turning off all compression. The distortion is slight, but I need this to be pixel accurate before sending this off to developers.
Is there also a way to ensure the PDF opens actual size? Viewing it at 100% does not equal the actual screen resolution of the document. I'm not interested in Print quality, just accurate screen representation.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
I've thought of just exporting my Illustrator pages as JPEGS and building my PDF manually, but there has to be a more streamlined way.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
-R

After experimenting, this may be more related to the accurate viewing size of the PDF. Some where around 70.8% seems to be close to the correct size, but it's not perfect. I play around with the numbers, but I still see some distortion. How can I ensure the reader accurately sees exactly what I see in my original Illustrator or PSD document? Again, thanks for any suggestions.

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