Vectors printing jagged when placed over raster images

I am fixing a previously designed flyer for a reprint. On the last print, any vector object placed on top of the raster image was very noticeably jagged. This included both white text, which simply had jagged edges, to colored text, which had white jaggies as well. Drawn vector objects and clipping paths in jpgs were also jagged.
I used InDesign CS3 to create it, but I outlined the type, embedded all the images and exported as a .pdf (my project manager insists on this; so maybe it's not even an ID issue).
It looks fine when I print it on my hp LaserJet 2550n or the office's Canon iR 2800i - but that's never been a good way to tell how it's going to turn out at the end.
I know just making it all in Photoshop is probably the safest option, but I would really like to keep the sharpness of the vectors, and I've got Character/Paragraph styles etc going that would be a pain to redo in Photoshop. Plus, copy+pasting it into Photoship creates pdf/vector object that looks just as horrid (on screen - it looks the same when I print it on the above-mentioned printers, but I'm still paranoid).
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any help you are able to offer!
Lisa

Peter, thank you for your reply. I really appreciate the help.
Generally, I use the default settings for [Press Quality], since I don't have a complete understanding of all the settings. I have appended the .txt pdf setting summary at the bottom of this post.
I'm aware that outlining type is supposed to be unnecessary but 1) my project manager insists on it because he doesn't want to deal with any kind of font problems (maybe if this is at the root of the problem it will push him to accept it), 2) I'm using Fontin & Fontin Sans by Jos Buivenga (a high quality free font) and the ligatures/alternate characters
sometimes don't show correctly when printed (replaced by a ?) or viewed on another computer without the font.
Yes, I embed the images into the ID document (Links - embed images). This is only because my project manager insists on this as well. It is unnecessary to do this when saving to a .pdf, correct?
Here are the settings I generally use when exporting a pdf to send to the printer (who do not specify any kind of settings):
Description
Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 and later.
PDF Preset: [Press Quality]
Compatibility: Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)
Standards Compliance: None
General
Pages: All
Spreads: Off
Generate Thumbnails: Off
Optimize PDF: On
Create Acrobat Layers: N/A
Export Layers: Visible and Printable Layers
Include Bookmarks: Off
Include Hyperlinks: Off
Export Nonprinting Objects: Off
Export Visible Guides and Baseline Grids: Off
Create Tagged PDF: Off
Include Interactive Elements: Off
Multimedia: N/A
Compression
Color Images
Bicubic Downsample at: 300 ppi
for images above: 450 ppi
Compression: Automatic
Tile Size: N/A
Quality: Maximum
Grayscale Images
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for images above: 450 ppi
Compression: Automatic
Tile Size: N/A
Quality: Maximum
Monochrome Images
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for images above: 1800 ppi
Compression: CCITT Group 4
Compress Text and Line Art: On
Crop Image Data to Frames: On
Marks and Bleeds
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Bleed Marks: Off
Registration Marks: Off
Color Bars: Off
Page Information: Off
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Offset: 6 pt
Use Document Bleed Settings: Off
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Bleed Bottom: 0 pt
Bleed Left: 0 pt
Bleed Right: 0 pt
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I'm currently running InDesign CS6 from the Creative Cloud, and it's version 8.0. I have a PC and am running Windows 8.
I am experiencing a really odd problem when placing images, and it only recently (within the last two weeks perhaps?) has developed. I do ebook production for a publisher. I have an InDesign template (INDD file really, but "blank" and ready to be filled in, and as such I refer to it as a "template") that I use, and the cover for the book goes on the first page. The document is set to pixels as the ruler measurement, and the pages are 650 pixels wide by 800 pixels tall. The margins are all set at zero. The cover images are sent to me as JPEGs and always have the same size: 72dpi setting and 500 pixels wide by 750 pixels tall. This is chosen to be about the size of the full screen on most ereaders, or close enough to be so.
So when working on a new book, I put my cursor in the blank line that is set up to take the cover as an inline image. I do control-D to place, select the file, and hit enter. This SHOULD place an image at that location that is 500 pixels wide and 750 pixels tall when looking at the InDesign page rulers. Instead, InDesign insists on placing this image at 50% scaling, so that it is only 250 pixels wide by 375 pixels tall. And in the link info panel, it shows the actual PPI as 72 and the effective PPI as 144. It does this no matter how many preference changes I try (including the ones under file handling and the import setting options).
The strangest part is that if the file is just a tiny bit different than 500x750 @72dpi, then there is no problem. For example, if I open the JPEG in Photoshop and change the image settings to 500x750 @73dpi, then InDesign places it at 100% scale like I want. If I change the image to 499x749 @72dpi it also gets placed in InDesign at 100% scaling. I've tried this with various new INDD documents with settings in pixels, inches, or picas as the ruler amounts, and with different page or margin sizes (just in case the problem is with my template). I get the same result no matter what.
It appears that InDesign somehow thinks that any image that is exactly 500x750 @72dpi should be scaled at 50% when placing it into an InDesign file. Has anyone else run across this? Is it a bug or something I'm doing wrong? I've been doing this exact procedure for over a year, first with CS5 and now CS6, and I've never had this happen until just recently. I suppose it COULD be an accidental change in settings or preferences. But if it is, I cannot figure out how to change it back.
UPDATE: I installed the 8.0.1 update and it did not resolve the issue. I also tried more image options. It looks like this scaling to 50% upon placing ONLY happens when all three attributes match this: 500x750@72dpi. All of the following modifications to the exact same image placed in the exact same spot in the exact same document resolved the issue:
501x750@72dpi
499x750@72dpi
500x751@72dpi
500x749@72dpi
500x750@71dpi
500x750@73dpi
But of course, I don't want to have to modify every cover image I'm sent in order to prevent this scaling issue.

I just tried this and got the same results (CS6, 8.0.1, on WinXP SP3). One other tidbit: the same 500px × 750 px @ 72ppi image saved as TIFF instead of JPEG worked correctly (at least for me). I haven't tried any other image formats yet.
This sounds like a good candidate for an official bug report: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
-Bill

Why does my high res photoshop image appear blurry when placed in InDesign and Exported as PDF?

Hi there,
I have a problem I've been trying to solve for days but just can't find the answer anywhere on the internet.
I have a large, good quality photoshop file (2268 x 979 pixels, resolution 300 pixels per inch). When I place it into InDesign, the image appears OK (I've changed my display settings to HIGH) - I then resize it in InDesign to 10% and the file still looks great! Then, when I export it as PDF (high quality print) it looks blurry.
Does anybody know why? The strangest thing is, I've placed other photoshop images in the same InDesign file and they look crystal clear. It is just this one I am having trouble with. I've saved it in the same folder as the other pictures, I've tried placing it as psd. , jpg. , photoshop pdf, png. everything...
The image looks great in both photoshop and indesign, only when exported as pdf it looks awful.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks in advance!
Weronika

It's probably the extreme reduction -- you're throwing away 90% of the image pixels and interpolating, and then using jpeg compression on top.

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