Preview vs. Adobe Reader / Acrobat Pro?

I am making a PDF from Pages. When I open the PDF in Preview it looks identical to the Pages file. When I open it in Adobe Reader or Acrobat Pro it looks as if the colors have been shifted from RGB to CMYK; they don't quite match, they all look slightly duller.
Is it that the Adobe apps are somehow set to default to CMYK? i can't find anywhere in the Preferences that gives this choice. But why would the PDF look different from Pages/Preview?
All ears,
Ben

Hi Walt, Fruhulda,
I'm not sure I'm getting this.
The Pages file is 300 dpi.
When I 'export' and use 'best' to create a PDF, that PDF is not 300 dpi, it's 72 dpi.
So bringing it into Preview and 'saving as' a quartz filter 300 dpi isn't going to recover the lost quality. When I try this my 14 meg file (from Pages to it's version of PDF) is reduced to 2 megs when converted BACK to 300 dpi via Preview. The end result as far as I can tell is a really raunchy 72 dpi looking document ... and my drop shadows (a luminous blue in this case) have been partially chopped out of the picture.
There doesn't appear to be any way to 'save' anything in the ColorSync Utility. I can 'lock' the new version. I did notice that if I closed and opened the ColorSync, the changes (adding the 300 dpi) had actually disappeared. So now I've 'locked' the changes; we'll see if that helps.
But there is no way to 'save' anything. And the new Generic PDFX-3 (300dpi) doesn't appear in the Pages 'print to PDF' choices. Now I can 'edit menu' and supposedly add new choices ... if I knew where ColorSync might be storing these quartz filters. But I have no idea. No general searches bring up anything.
I've been using a quartz filter I got from France, which I store in - adim / Library / PDF Services. But there are no other .qfilter files when I do a search.

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