Visio drawings embedded in Word documents don't convert correctly

Hi,
Windows XP, with all available patches.
Word 2007, with all available patches.
Visio 2002, with all available patches.
Acrobat X pro (trial at this point) with all available patches.
I have some long word documents that have many visio drawings embedded within them. When I try and convert the word document to a pdf using the Adobe Acrobat tab that gets installed within Word, I find that the document gets converted without any errors, but when I view the document, some of the Visio drawings are not displayed correctly. In particular, the arrows at the ends of many of the connectors are missing.
Is this a known problem? Is there a reasonable workaround available?
I have tried severl other PDF creators and they work with no problem - the Adobe Acrobat is the only converter I have tried that exhibits this behaviour, and at the moment it is preventing me from buying the full version.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Hi ,
If you look down the reply typing section you will find 'Attach Files' box . You can attach the files there , much like I have done in my previous post .
If you cannot still do that you may go to acrobat.com ,create a free account (if you don't have already) and upload the files to your account and pass on the Link to the files here on the forums .
Let me know in case of any issues .
Thanks,
Apoorv

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