Preview PDF Compression?

In Lion it has been impossible for some time to prevent Preview from compressing PDFs. I don't want to compress my PDFs. Does anyone know if this problem is fixed in Mountain Lion?

Glad this was useful to you. And indeed, I don't know what happened to the original screenshots...
I encountered this problem as well.
The solution is to move the filters from:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Filters/
to:
/Library/Filters/ (you may have to create this folder)
In other words, in OSX 10.7(.2), the filters need to be in the main system-wide Library, not in a user's Library.
And yes, the PDF Quartz Filter functionality in Preview has moved from the Print dialogue box to the File > Export command.

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