Problem when saving to .pdf from .ai..

How do I fix this? I save a document from .ai to .pdf in CS5 and it automatically goes to the size of the artwork bounds instead of the artboard or paper size. Please help...

I beleive we are having the same problem.
If I take an active file and "save as" a pdf, the artboard behaves as it should (open file in Acrobat and the Page Size matches the Illustrator Artboard).
If I continue to work in that file and do a "save" the Illustrator artboard is not "honored". If you open the file in Acrobat it now does not match the Illustrator artboard. The PDF page size becomes some kind of hybrid of the Ilustrator artwork bounds and the artboard???
If I take that problematic file and then do a "Save As" and overwrite the same file, the problem is fixed, as long as I keep using save as.
So far the only work around that has worked for me is to only use "save as" for PDFs. This is inconvienent for sure.
I had suspected that the problem was related to some ESKO plugins, but now I am not sure. Do you happen to have ESKO plugins on your machine?
Illustrator CC 17.1.0
OSX 10.6.8
imac 2.93 Ghz 16GB ram

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