About acropdf.dll

I want to display an pdf file in my own application.
I want to know what's the difference of Acrobat and Reader's acropdf.dll and the difference of each version(7~9) acropdf.dll.
There are 3 interfaces:
void postMessage(const VARIANT& strArray);
VARIANT GetMessageHandler();
void SetMessageHandler(const VARIANT& newValue);
I don't know how to use them and is there any specification for the this?
Thanks!
Jasper.

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