Xournal pdf exporting of lower quality

I added some highlighting and text to the original pdf within the xournal. But the output quality of the original pdf changes (text with drawing), after exporting. Is there a way around.
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/manual.html#printing
states:
"If Xournal is unable to parse the PDF file, the poppler/cairo renderer is used instead to generate a new PDF file from scratch. "
Thanks in advance.

The problem was in "printing" the PDF.
The issue was completely resolved by printing the iBA file to a Post Script file, and then indepently using Adobe Distiller to produce the final PDF.
It makes no sense to me why using Print to Adobe PDF from the iBA print menu works any differently than using Distiller on a .ps file. But whatever, it works, and it is beautiful.

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