Several years ago the LTUG (Lacerte Tax User Group) on Yahoo! had one member point out the "Debenu PDF Automation" software.  What you would do is print all of your Lacerte PDFs to <this folder over here>, then tell Debenu to "watch that folder".  With a simple little script inside of debenu--which that recommending CPA even posted--Debenu would then strip out all of the useless font information, resulting in roughly half-sized PDFs.  (We kept our "return printouts" and our "organizer PDFs" in separate locations, because we made a lot of custom changes to the Organizers.)
  Unfortunately, Debenu has since been acquired by someone (maybe FoxIt?), and they are in the process of sunsetting the Debenu software as no longer supported.

If you can still get it while their site is up, I highly recommend the Debenu software, because it works so well and automatically.  Large input files go here, output/much smaller files wind up there, and then we can just take the output files and handle them any way we choose.



Robert Kirk
LTUGtools