Shapes get random jagged edges

Hello,
I am working on a freelance logo and the client kept mentioning that my sample PDF's seem to have "smudge" on part of it, I never saw it and then I asked them to actaully SEND me the file while I was not at my primary computer so I can look at it.
It is really wierd.  It seem that when you zoom in and out the shape changes and gets these ramdom jagged edges.  I don't see them on my computer or phone and my client only sees them on her desktops but it does also print out with these wierd edges as well.  I converted all type to lines and did an export to PDF to show her samples.  I have attached photo expamples.  Please help! i have never had this before.  The first image shows how it is supposed to look and how it did look when I first opened, the other 2 show what happens when it gets zoomed.  And it changes too, it isn't the same jagged edges everytime.
Thanks!

In IIllustrator, you woudl normally chaneg your limit (AKA miter limit, flatness) to a lower number
Since this is happening in acrobat, you may be able to fix this with your preview settings. Problem with that is your clietn would also have to change their settings. The ones under rendering is what you want to change.
If thsi dont help. you want to look at where tehis is happening and if you have overlapping vector points, would be good to clena that up. You also could jsut use object >> path >> outline stroke, to get rid of stroke, so that acorabt is nto tryign to render them (whcih goes back to the beigginng of my post as I belive the pdf rendering of miter limits is at play here - no stroked paths,  no miter limits).

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