Pages bug? Arrows look cut in PDF viewers

Hello all!
I have Pages 2.0.1v2 on OS 10.4.7. When I export a document as PDF, the arrows I created with shapes appear slightly cut at the top in both Preview and Acrobat Reader 7. Here is a screenshot: http://artemio.net/tmp/PagesPicture1.png
Has anyone else experienced this?
All the best,
Artemiy.

I added :
\pdfminorversion 5
So the generated pdf is pdf 1.5 (seen in pdf properties in acroread).
But the problem with png files still occurs.
To resolve the problem, I just remove the alpha channel (in gimp for example) of my png, and acroread displays it correctly.
EDIT: with \pdfminorversion 7 (pdf 1.7), acroread has no the bug.
png are correctly displayed.

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