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This is what the colors look like when opened in Chrome or imported into Photoshop -- I consider this to be right.
This is what the same file looks like opened in Acrobat X (10.1.16) -- I consider this to be wrong.
Why question is simply... why? Why is there a color difference? I've tried every setting in Acrobat under Preferences->Color Management and nothing seems to liven up the colors.
Thank you in advance!
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Looks like it's being converted to CMYK, perhaps because of transparency. Did you make the PDF, if so how? If not, how did you decide which is right?
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Also, I imagine you're choosing RGB when you open in Photoshop. Try choosing CMYK instead, see if it matches.
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I opened it in Photoshop and selected CMYK, as suggested, and it does indeed match the colors as when I open it in Acrobat. The PDF was generated using PDF Kit (a nodejs tool) and the colors were chosen using RGB values, which is why I decided that the Chrome rendering was more accurate. While I'm not sure if PDFKit is robust enough to allow me to address this issue, I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Disregarding PDFkit specifically, is there a flag in the PDF specification that would cause the rendering engine to produce consistent colors on most (if not all) displays?
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If you are using transparency be sure to set a blend colour space. You can also do this using the transparency flattener in Acrobat Pro.