@Xingdong - Esri, none I am aware of, sadly. I pitched it here and there, but no reply so far.
So I promoted my comment into a new request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48818972
I already added you as a voter, based on your comment. Let’s see how many people here support the idea of having 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' always disabled for Export as PDF, but always enabled for Save As (but customizable for Save a Copy, I suppose).

@Egor Chistyakov, Any thoughts on the proposal below to differentiate, rather than to confuse, the use cases of "Save As PDF" and "Export As PDF"?

Egor, I am with you on the idea of making 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' disabled or even removed from the UI. In contrast, this option should always be enabled and locked for "Save As" to avoid destructive operations. Anyway, the confusion between "Save As" and "Export As" is not ignorable. More thinking and fine-tuning of PDF settings are needed to differentiate the two workflows.

I’ve been in the same position as Margaret many times before, where I’ve been working on a PDF instead of Illustrator. It’s going to be hard to break the habit of ‘Save as’ for a while but how about removing/phasing it out completely now we have the option to Export?

There really needs to be a big "HEY! You saved as PDF with Illustrator compatibility off! Any further edits you make are going to get saved to the PDF" alert. Possibly with an "It looks like you never bothered saving this as an AI file, maybe you should do this too" addendum. I wonder how much work has been lost to this behavior over the years.

Xingdong, you are correct, it’s the same exact thing as Save a Copy :(
I expected it to be more than this. One part was split into a separate request, but besides the speed and presets, I was hoping to have the 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' disabled, since the data is not 'saved', but 'exported'... the team decided to have the same exact presets given.

For many it was confusing to NOT see a PDF type in Export As dialog.
But the main request was not about having it there, but about a tedious multi-step routine.
I swear, sometimes it feels like the team reads only captions, but not the rest, and not the comments.

Correct me if I missed something, but how is the newly implemented File > Export As different from the existing File > Save a copy? To me, they have the same workflows and the same set of PDF options, except now users can two commands (three if you count the Save As command) to get a PDF output from your current document. Looks confusing.

I agree. The export option does remember the setting if you keep the file open but if you Close or Quit, it defaults to PNG, which is very frustrating. See you back on the thread in a couple of years...

Well "consistency" would be to also have command-e as the command.
And having the computer remember that I always always always wand to export as PDF, and not as PNG, and having to change that each and every f*ing time with my mouse (like an ANIMAL ;) ).
But maybe thet can be done in the next iteration of this request, 4 or 6 years from now?

I’ve assigned the same keyboard command as InDesign - Command + E - I use PDF export way, way more than GPU switching, which was what the keyboard was originally assigned to. It appears to be working as expected. Nice to have some consistency across the apps now.

Thomas, I assigned Ctrl + E to Export As.
This will open the dialog for me, but not choose the file type obviously.
That’s why a new request has been filed, to have a dedicated Adobe PDF Presets menu — this would allow us to assign hotkeys directly to items there and just input a name and location.

Ps also has Quick Export as PNG command... it’s even more faster, but in fact it’s rather slow :)

I see it is closed but apart from working it has a small (but important) flaw: I have to use it with my mouse. That seems cumbersome. Did nobody try this in a production environment at adobe? I really need a keyboard shortcut for that.

Tried it with a couple of files and appears to work as expected. Do you think we could have Viewing options added as implemented in InDesign?

Reading the comments about this idea from 6 years ago really made my day!

Bravo! Over 6 years to get this considered.

Please continue to allow embedding of the Illustrator file into the PDF.

Could you also include functionality to export artboards at multiple sizes on export - so the same design as A4, A3, A1 etc.

I would like to see Illustrator have the function "export as PDF" exactly like InDesign. I use both programs but often I still like to create ad pages in Illustrator as I can be more creative with vector shapes. When I have a lot of images linked and need to export it as a print pdf, I really miss InDesign.

Exporting PDF with the heavy AI edit function included is contra-productive for workflow with the client! There should be a shortcut export as PDF in a CERTAIN Format predefined, (in my case it would be 'Web-PDF' setting) to keep the file size small as possible for sharing.

In case anyone still interested in this functionnality, I developped my own script to create multiple PDF export at once with different settings.
Script available on github. Current release is v3.6 (User Instruction "Multi-PDF Exporter 3-5 - Notice.pdf" created for v.3.5 is completely relevant though).
Release here : https://github.com/CoriusPhoto/Multi-PDF_Exporter