Compressing PDF files in Finder - Files are no smaller after compression!

Hi,
I have PDF portfolio files (Acrobat 9) that include images (jpegs and PNGs)and PDFs. I want to compress them so i can email them. When i ctrl click them and select 'compress' the resulting .zip file is exactly the same size as the original PDF file! Can anyone explain why?!
Is it not possible to create compressed zip files from PDFs containing multiple files / types?
FYI, i have made the PDFs themselves as small as possible within Acrobat before trying to compress them, compressing is a last resort!
Thanks

Thanks. I've reduced the image sizes to what i think is the minimum for good viewing, but the total PDF size is still too big for emialing (about 25mb). Is there any alternative to resizing the images (and other files) again and making the tottal PDF size smaller?

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