Thin grid lines in PDF export

I am using the current version of Numbers (3.2).
The problem I am facing is that it seems to be impossible to export a spreadsheet with invisible grid lines to a PDF. Every time I do so, thin (I guess 1px) grid lines appear in the PDF where the should be none. I attached two images of a simple test sheet: The first picture is Numbers, the second is the resulting PDF export.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks!

1) select the table, then
2) use the cell formatter to set the border type to none
3) apply the border all inside edges

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