Problem with display Color Management (too high saturation)

When viewing PDF documents containing colored objects/images on my wide gamut monitor using Acrobat Pro, objects and images have (very) oversaturated colors.

It looks like Acrobat Pro is ignoring my display profile and turns off display color management (see below)?

I was planning to use Acrobat Pro as tool in a book design project with a lot of photographs.

I have attached an example showing a PDF with a colored square using Photoshop and Acrobat Pro (screen dump, will not show true colors, but will illustrate the problem). See the attached JPEG below (Acrobat PRO to the left (oversaturated, not OK), Photoshop to the right (OK)).

All other apps that I use show the colors correctly for various PDFs. I have tried:

- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Bridge
- Edge browser (using Acrobat tech under the hood I think)
- Chrome browser
- Affinity

I have made some simple PDFs for testing: PDFs with a single rectangle shape all filled with the same color (a shade of red: R=200,G=50,B=50 for AdobeRGB, but the oversaturation seems to affect most/all colors) using the following color spaces:

RGB
    - AdobeRGB
    - ProPhoto
    - sRGB
CMYK
    - FOGRA39

The test files have all been created using Photoshop (I have also created PDFs using Bridge and InDesign earlier with the same results).
All the PDFs show up OK (identical, except for an almost unnoticeable change is saturation for the CMYK version) in all apps except Acrobat Pro. In Acrobat Pro they are also all identical but oversaturated.

I can see online that more people are having the same issue. Check these posts:

- "Colors are much too saturated in Acrobat"
- "Acrobat not displaying colors correctly"
- "Acrobat is showing wrong colors (ignores display profile)"
- "Colors in Acrobat pro (and Reader) are much too saturated" (acrobat.uservoice.com)
- "Colour Management incorrect in Acrobat DC Pro"
- ++

Different suggestions have come up. I have tried a couple with no luck:

- uncheck the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" and "Run in AppContainer" in "Security (Enhanced)" in Preferences
- try version 2.2 for the monitor ICC profile (I have tried both version 2.2 and 4.2 ICC profiles for my calibrated monitor)

Some observations:

As far as I can see Acrobat Pro takes the input profile into account: all the PDFs with different input color profiles show up identical (and oversaturated). It seems like Acrobat Pro ignores the output (display) profile and feeds my (single) wide gamut monitor with unmanaged display data.

A saw in a post that Acrobat may be using the GPU (via DirectX) for display color management and rendering (is this true?) and that this may cause problems. In my installation of Acrobat Pro, I cannot find any settings for GPU usage (should be somewhere in Preferences -> Page Display I think: "Use 2D graphics acceleration" or "Enable hardware rendering"). My GPU is used just fine in my other applications (Photoshop, ACR, Bridge, Topaz Gigapixel etc.).

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System details:

Adobe Acrobat Pro version: 2026.001.21691 | 64-bit
Adobe Photoshop version: 27.8.0
Adobe InDesign version: 21.4.1 x64
Adobe Bridge version: 16.0.5.19
Microsoft Edge version: 150.0.4078.48
Google Chrome version: 150.0.7871.115
Canva Affinity version: Mid June '26 (4557)

Windows: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
Version: 25H2
OS build: 26200.8655

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA Studio Driver, version: 610.62 Release date: Tue Jun 16, 2026

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: 64 GB

Monitor: Eizo CG2730 - 2560x1440 - Wide Gamut
Calibrated using Xrite i1 Display, ColorNavigator 7 (version 7.2.7.3)

Acrobat PRO to the left (oversaturated, not OK), Photoshop to the right (OK)