Publisher export to PDF - too large and blurry

[2:3]

Hello, I need to export 9 A3 pages with text and photos to pdf for screen with a max of 9 mb.

From Indesign I can do that fairly well. But when I use the same settings in Publisher, the pdf is always larger and worse quality.

I tried in 150 dpi then 96 dpi, I tried  jpg compression off then 85 % ... PDF 1.4 ... what else could I do to reduce the file size of the exported pdf and leave it sharp, not blurry?

Thanks for any help.

[Old Bruce]

21 minutes ago, 2:3 said:

I need to export 9 A3 pages with text and photos to pdf for screen with a max of 9 mb.

Are you using any effects layers, is the Text getting rasterized, how large are photos, how many photos?

[2:3]

Hi, no, I do not use any effects or effect layers. Rasterizing: I tried with different export settings: none, some and rasterize all. I think the rasterizing all produced the smallest pdf size. Photos: each page has 2 photos, so 9 pages = 18 photos of different original file sizes and resolutions. They fill about 70 - 80 % of the page. The page ist 42 x 29,7 cm - two photos are ca. 40 x 18 cm on each page.