dspearman

I have tried a number of mac based pdf creation printer drivers. The built in osx driver creates large files so I don't use it for drawings anymore. I have caused the printer driver to create a postscript file and then used ps2pdf to convert that to a pdf. Much better filesizes, the quality of the output seems better but a pain to change page sizes and I have had it choke on complex drawings. I now use Jaws. It has been flawless for me and well worth the cost. I should also say that I have not used the adobe distiller.

If you are on os x .2 or later I have heard that some users are having luck with gimp-print and the buymelunch driver when printing to the hp500 (non or ps version) I haven't tried it personally...

This is possibly a dumb comment, but under the page menu their is an item "Set print area..". Try setting this to one page and see if it solves the problem.

I am curious. If you select the pad object and look at the object info pallet there is a Z height field and an elevation field. Is the Z height field 0 and the elevation field set to the correct elevation for the pad object? If you set the Z height to -1 and the elevation to -1 the pad will modify the grade to -2 (or 1 unit below what you are expecting)