Printing a PDF CAD Drawing adds lines

We use Solid Works 2011 SP05, a CAD program. We save our drawings to PDF to make them available to people who do not have the Solid Works program. Occassionally, printing a drawing will add extra lines to the drawing, sort of like Adobe is trying to "connect the dots". Attached are 2 images, the first is the original drawing, the second has 4 red arrows pointing to the added lines. How do we fix this issue? Using an alternative PDF reader such as FoxIt prints the PDF perfectly fine. I have tried this on 3 different operating systems, 3 different machines, 3 different printers and 3 different versions of Adobe (Reader 9, Reader X, Acrobat Pro 9). They ALL add the lines. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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0 0 0 RG 1 1 1 rg /OC /OC0 BDC /OC /OC1 BDC q 0 0 m 0 792 l 612 792 l 612 0 l 0 0 l h W* n q 573.8537 0 0 -473.77355 19.92048 774.71951 cm /Image_3 Do Q q 573.8537 0 0 -232.56665 19.92048 301.66598 cm /Image_5 Do Q Q EMC /OC /OC2 BDC q 593.05416 70.29936 m 19.92048 70.29936 l 19.92048 774.71951 l 593.05416 774.71951 l 593.05416 70.29936 l h W* n 1 0 0 RG 1.44003 w 1 j 1 J 10 M -35395.08504 45774.32631 m -35395.08504 45769.04616 l -35373.72453 45745.28548 l -35329.32347 45688.40386 l -35246.5215 45582.80084 l -35118.83845 45419.35616 l -35116.9184 45417.67611 l -35105.15812 45410.2359 l -35090.99778 45401.59565 l -35089.0777
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