Compress PDF with Leopard

I just upgraded to Leopard and miss one thing a lot from Tiger.
For work, I used to compress PDFs with Tiger to send them by mail and now, that option has been removed from Leopard.... It's just impossible for me to send PDFs as big as 10mo by mail. Does anybody has any idea about how I could compress them ?
Thanks everyone

Hey there
If you don't have access to the original Tiger workflow, then just create a new workflow in Automator: Open automator, go to the pdf section, look for the reduce file size or compress pdf workflow, go to the finder section, add a copy or move to action that moves the file to the desktop and that's it. Then save the item as a workflow in /Library/PDFServices
BTW - you can also use this process to create workflows to do absolutely ANYTHING you want and put them in pdf services.
I think Apple removed the original workflow in tiger simply because it wasn't necessarily suited to everyone, and it's so easy to add in workflows that are customized yourself into pdfservices.
Hope that helps.
Greg

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