Resolution of screenshots in PDF

Hi,
I am creating an 8.5x11 PDF document that contains a screenshot. My workflow is take screen caputure > paste in Photoshop (resize/sharpen/trialerror) > save .png > drag .png into InDesign and set it to 100%. I cannot get the screen shot to not look blurry or pixelated no matter what I try. I understand when you zoom in on the PDF the screenshot will become blurry since it is not vector. However, I have the PDF set to 100% zoom and the screenshot is still blurry.
I have tried resizing in Photoshop, changing the resolution, etc. I can't get it to a point where the screenshot looks decent. Can anyone offer some advice? I am using Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5. I also have Illustrator CS5.
Thanks in advance,
Anthony

Sorry for digging this up, but I've encountered this issue recently and found the cause - people coming here from google searches may find this useful.
If you do everything properly (that is when you do everything as advised - do not scale images, use no compression when exporting, etc.) the image in PDF *is* crisp and properly embedded. The issue lies within Adobe Reader. Allow me to explain:
Your screen resolution is most probably 96 dpi. This is the original resolution of your screenshot. Exporting it at higher dpi won't do much - it still won't be blurry *only* when displayed at 96 dpi or higher, regardless of resolution you export at. That's not a problem, because 96 dpi is the resolution most displays use.
For some bizzare reason Adobe Reader has a default setting of displaying documents at 110 dpi. If you go to Edit > Preferences... > Page display you can change this setting to 96 dpi. Your PDFs will look as intended after doing that. The images also display correctly in Chrome's built-in PDF viewer, as it displays them in 96 dpi by default.
There is no way to fix that. You simply cannot change user's reader settings.
Also, you might have thought "well, can't I just set the images resolution to 110 dpi when exporting my PDF?". That won't help - as the screenshots are taken in 96 dpi, increasing their resolution will make them blurry. They still will only be crisp when viewed at the resolution they were taken.

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