Saving as a PDF shows poor quality

Hello Forum,
I designed a logo for a client and, for unusual circumstances, designed it in Photoshop instead of Illustrator. It's nothing too fancy -  some text with a nice graphic. However, upon saving the file in a PDF my logo's edges come out visually poor depending on your percentage of magnification. For example, if you're looking at it at 100% magnification then it looks fine, however, the majority of other magnification percentages it just looks horendous. When I print it it looks fine as expected.
Normally this isn't an issue, however, this particular logo is being placed in an electronic brochure and is only going to be viewed online. The goal of this query is to figure out a way in which I can place this logo in this brochure and have the edges look fine upon viewing under any magnification.
Facts:
• The logo is text with a transparent background. Removing the transparency fixes the choppy edges issue, however, because the brochure has a gradient in the background this really isn't an option.
• Designed in Photoshop CS4
• Is all vector based despite being in Photoshop with the exclusion of layer styles. Contains various layer styles included a drop shadow, gradient, and stroke. Removing any/all of these doesn't alter the edges, however.
• I sent the native photoshop file to the client and he used a different PDF application to PDF it and the logo looks fine. I'm unaware what application he used, unfortunately.
• PDF was saved several times using various settings as well as nearly every preset it comes with (full quality, email quality, etc.).
Any help you guys have to offer would be wonderful.

As been noted PDF is not a good choice if your client is going to be scalling the logo for different size documents.  If your client has Photoshop save it as a layered PSD file so it will scale well.  If you create it large in size it will scale down well when it is placed into a document. Transform also can scale placed PSD files poorly if they are small  are transformed up in size. However you can also double click on the smart object placed icon in the layers palette and photoshop will open the smart object psd into photoshop and you can resize the smart object using Photoshop images size where text font size will be changed by changing the text size of the text layers and vector graphics will be scaled up interpolation will not be used.
If you create the logo large you could most likely get by with just using the place transform and automate the process with an action. My crafting Action contains a good sample action. http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/JJMacksCraftingActions.zip
Contains:
Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
Action Creation Guidelines.txt
Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action
EXAMPLE
Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file. This file has some additional comments I inserted describing how the actions work.
12 Scripts for actions

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