Visio 2010 EMFs wrong gradients in Word 2007 PDF

Hello everyone,
I'm using Visio 2010 to cerate some graphics and export them as EMFs. These EMFs are then imported to a Word-Document (as vector graphics - i checked that) and then exported to PDF. When opening the resulting PDF in Adobe Reader 10.1.4 the gradients of the Visio created graphics are all disorted. No gradient is displayed correctly.
Opening the same PDF in an alternative PDF reader, everything is fine. Therefore I'm not sure if this is a problem on adobes side or microsofts.
I created a zip file containing all files to test this problem: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46574377/TestAdobe.zip Maybe someone can have a look and point me to the right direction to workaround this problem?!
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your help! I thought it might be a problem with Adobe Reader not displaying the gradients correctly. I just checked using the Visio built-in export and the resulting file displays correctly in adobe reader - therefore it looks like something is messed up with the word built-in pdf-export. Will look into this... Thanks!

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I am experiencing an issue with some Visio images not rendering correctly in my PDF. I created the images in Visio 2010 and saved as EMF. Then I inserted them into my Word 2007 document and generated a PDF.
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