Illustrator 19 No Check Box for Saving Artboard Only to PDF

In previous versions of Illustrator I could work on a project and have an Artboard that had additional content around it and when I choose to Save the Artboard Image ONLY I could check the use Artboard box and the PDF would be created for only the content ON THE ARTBOARD not the additional stuff around the work I wanted to use either for Print or the Web.

Previous workspaces in Illustrator had placeholder space for additional stuff and worked like a scrapbook around the Artboard or Artboards I had active for that documents workspace. I would choose Save As and choose PDF and check the box to save ONLY the Artboard image.

Now the process is a pain in the ass. I work on a Artboard in the documents workspace and I cannot choose to save ONLY the Artboard content to PDF. What I have to do is CROP out everything else in the documents workspace and loose all the assets that where in the documents workspace (they would then be gone and I could not do substitutions etc from the AI (Illustrator file).

Before Illustrator 19 here is my workflow;

1. Create the Image in the Artboard and have other assets OUTSIDE of the Artboard that I could substitute later and I would SAVE the COMPLETE document to a .ai file.

2. Choose Save As and choose PDF and click on the box to use ONLY THE ARTBOARD (not all the other stuff).

Total files on my computer 2

Done

After Illustrator 19 here is my workflow;

1. Create the Image in the Artboard and have other assets OUTSIDE of the Artboard that I could substitute later and this file gets Saved as a .ai file.

2. Open the saved .ai file with all the content.

3. Use the CROP tool to only select the content on the ARTBOARD (exclude everything else) and save this to a .ai file

4. Open the ARTBOARD only .ai file and choose Save As or As a Copy to a PDF

Total files on my computer 3

Loss of efficiency and the Crop Tool does not auto snap to the Artboard. Plus this takes more time to do.

I am not very happy with Illustrator CC 19 and am considering dropping my subscription to the Creative Cloud because of this and similar issues of changes to workflows in Photoshop CC 19 and will most likely return to using the CS6 versions of Adobe Software since I own them and they are not on a subscription that keeps breaking workflows and waisting time and annually costing ~$720 per year (3 years equals ~ $2,160 which is more than what I paid for my CS6 equivalent to the CC versions).

If you have solution on how to save just Artboard Content to PDF (while preserving assets in the original .ai file) please let me know.

Thank you

ps. In Photoshop Content Aware is kind of broken too