PDFMaker rasterizes a Vector EMF file

Greetings!
I use PDFMaker add-in of Adobe Acrobat Pro (11.0.10) with Word 2013 to PDF a document, which contains a vector EMF file.
After conversion I see that original vector image is rasterized completely. If I either save the same source Word document As PDF in Word or print it via Adobe PDF printer the EMF vector image stays vector in result PDF. If you want I can share the EMF file that causes the issue.
I am forced to use PDFMaker as I need to convert Word bookmarks to PDF as well.
What can cause this behavior and how can I try fixing it?
Thank you for the prompt reply.

Dear Sukrit,
I have sent you an e-mail message, where attached two files causing the issue, as well as DOCX that you might want to convert to PDF using PDFMaker of Adobe Acobat Pro (11.0.10).
Please let me know results of the investigation.

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