Compress after searching in finder

I went into finder and did a 'search' for PDF documents, I selected several of them and then did a right click but there was no Compress option in the drop down menu.
Compress appears for selected files if I am not acting on a search list in Finder, so how do you compress a group of files you want after performing a search?

It would appear that it's not possible to compress files from a search results window using the Mac OS X built-in compression. Unless someone else has found a workaround I haven't, the only option I hvae found would be to drag-and-drop the files onto a third-party zip utility such as YemuZip (freeware). Or use Option-drag to make a copy of the selected files, compress those copies, and then delete them (cumbersome, so I'd suggest the zip utility option).
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