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Hi I have recently upgraded to CS5. I am using a Mac Quad Core Intel Xeon with Snow lepoard OS.
My problem is that im trying to PDF a large page size from Indesign, i go through the usual chanel of print setup, i click on Manage Custom Sizes
Enter the new size, return to the setup window ensure every thing is to 100 % scale crop mark etc and save as post script. i then take the document into distiller. The output is an A3 cropped version of the bottom left corner.
I have read Snow lepoard is not dependant on the PDF Wrtiter print drive any more? so should i use my Laser printer driver with the bespoke page size? there seems to be little or contradictory information on this subject.
If any one could offer some insight i would be most grateful. Thanks

This is really an InDesign issue and not PDF, but I'll answer.
Use File->Export to create the PDF.
Creation of PDF from Creative Suite applications should ALWAYS be done using Export/Save As and NEVER using printing.

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