Pages '09 Blurring All Image Graphics When Emailed

NOTE: I am a 20-year graphic design vet with very limited experience in Pages, as far as technical issues go, but a lifetime of Photoshop/image experience.

There are several posts about how Pages images are printing blurry or outputting blurry as PDF.

This is NOT my issue.

On screen, my Pages docs with 300 dpi RGB JPEG images imported as graphics, look perfect on screen and when I export to PDF using Press Quality or Print Quality (high resolution), they export just fine.

But, the client doesn't need PDF files, they want a Pages (and Word) file that I can send them and they will edit the inner content for different things. In this case, it is for them to have a Bid/Estimate template so they can create bids for their clients and they want the actual Pages and Word files to make these edits for each client. Pages is all I'm concerned about here.

When I attach the Pages doc to an email from my Gmail browser window, it blurs all the images, like REALLY bad.

So when they create a bid for a client, they want to send that Pages file (or possibly output that to PDF) to send to their client for approval.

This is not the first time I have imported images into Pages files for things like letterhead templates (a simple logo or ID banner at the top), fax cover sheet templates, etc. I've never encountered this issue before, although I have only done it a few times for rare clients.

This particular file has 4 imported images. 2 full length strips (stacked on top of each other) at the top so I can swap out the very top portion for each different document. One full length image strip at the bottom that has their company services graphic and 1 image along the left edge going up the page that has social network icons and their company name going up the page.

All 4 images are blurred when I send the file. (I will attach samples if I can)

Here's what I have tried so far:

1) I tried reducing each image resolution sizes in Photoshop and re-imported them all. One Pages doc copy had 72dpi images and another Pages doc had 150dpi.

Same image blurring result.

2) I converted all images to TIFF and CMYK color to see if that made a difference.

Same image blurring result.

3) Just out of curiosity, I applied the Reduce File Size feature and all that did was blurred the images in the Pages doc copy.

4) One forum suggested to Quit Pages and got to application folder and Get Info for Pages app and "uncheck" the box that says Open As Low Resolution or something to that effect (I'm not certain that was worded exactly right). There was no such box to check or uncheck on my Get Info dialogue box.

I'm not sure what else to try.

Could this be a Mavericks software issue??? I haven't used Pages '09 since upgrading.

Can anyone please help me? I am desperate for a solution. They needed this yesterday! 🙂

Any help sincerely appreciated. You will be my hero!

Rod (or just call me Utah if you're going by my screen name 🙂)

This is the blurred Pages file as it comes across to the client.

This is how the Pages doc looks on my screen while open in Pages. It also exports out as a PDF file just fine.