Vector Artwork Dragged from Illustrator Looks lo-res

Hi everyone,
I have dragged a piece of vector artwork from Illustrator into a Photoshop file like I have done a thousand times before.  It looks and behaves just like a smart object/vector just fine in the Photoshop file, when when I save the file out as a PDF, the smart object looks exremely lo-res like  a lor-res raster file.  I have never seen this before.  Smart Objects usually lose no resolution when saved out in a PDF, even if you save the PDF as "Smallest File Size"
What have I missed? Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
Kit

It looks and behaves just like a smart object/vector just fine in the Photoshop file, when when I save the file out as a PDF, the smart object looks exremely lo-res like  a lor-res raster file.  I have never seen this before.  Smart Objects usually lose no resolution when saved out in a PDF, even if you save the PDF as "Smallest File Size"
Even Vector Smart Objects are pixel in output, so just to make sure:
Does the SO look bad in the psd-file or only in the pdf?
Because in latter case your pdf-settings would be the likely culprit.

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