Quartz Filters - Negative PDF images

Trying to create a Reduced size PDF using the Quartz filter in Automater. The output PDF views in Acrobat as a negative image. Preview views the file correct.
I emailed the PDF to a client for approval and he opened in acrobat which showed the negative.
It seems to me that Preview is saving the file so it can only be viewed correctly by preview.
Any thoughts Apple?

You're not. See <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1658162&#1658162>.
But no one has offered any help there either, I'm afraid. What happens when either you or the client prints the pages in question? (I'm curious because I can get graphics to appear properly, but they either don't print or the image prints with a gray screen over it. I think I may be having a different problem than you....)
iBook G4 w/ SuperDrive (Winter 2005) Mac OS X (10.4.4) I'm not a programmer--just a dedicated Mac user.

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Does anyone happen to know why the "quartz filters" in this thread just trashed a number of my pdf's with images in them? I have some images that went from color to a very bad black and white and some color images that went to all green with no definition.
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