Problems wih export to pdf

I've created a newsletter in pages (Version 2), with jpeg images (Fix Object) with a drop shadow around a coloured border. Also title text with a drop shadow. Looks great in pages but when I export to pdf, all the drop shadows disappear, creating a very plain looking doc.
I've tried using the export to pdf, print save to pdf, print/preview - save to pdf.
Yet if I open the newly created pdf file in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat 7, There are no drop shadows.
if I open in preview, the shadows are there.
But this doesn't work if I'm sending the pdf file to people in the windows world who don't have preview.
The only work around is to export it to word, save it as a pdf, which then the file triples in size from 1 MB to almost 4 MB.
Same thing, no drop shadows in adobe, but shows up in preview.
The only solution I have found is to take the saved pdf file from word, open it in PDFpenPro, re-save it and then compress it back down to a 1 MB file with PStill.
If I try this approach with the saved pdf file from Pages, I get a line of black dots where there are spaces after a period of a sentence.
Any insight to this would be great.
thanks
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

There is a simple three-step solution:
1. 'Print' your Pages file to PostScript (in the Print dialogue window select 'Save as PostScipt)
2. In Acrobat, 'Open' or 'Create PDF from File' - your PostScript file. With Acrboat 7 Distiller kicks-in automatically and distills the PS file to whatever settings you've chosen.
3. Save your new PDF - watch how Acrobat processes the PS file and reduces it to e-mailable size.
With this method you retain your Pages shadows and other formatting in the final PDF.
I produce a magazine in Pages and this procedure turned out to be the only one that worked in order to prepare Pages files for professional printing. If anyone knows a different solution, I would very much like to hear from them.
Also, note that the PDF produced by this method will be RGB (computer screen 3 colours,) not CMYK (printers' 4 colour). Many professional printers would do further conversion themselves, but many wouldn't.
Best regards,
Alex
iMac, iBook Mac OS X (10.4)

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