Acrobat vs. Reader SDK

Hello,
i got Acrobat SDK and i am not clear wich part is Acrobat and wich part is Reader.
I in my Delphi application i have to view a PDF in FullScreen-Mode and its annotations on second screen. This Application should work at every workstation with Adobe Reader installed.
How can i do this?
Is AxAcroPDFLib the right place?
Regards
Ralf...

Thank you for the fast Answer.
Maybe i am a little blind.
Where can i see
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/w whelp.htm?context=Acrobat9_HTMLHelp&file=IAC_API_OLE_Objects.103.76.html
works with Reader only or not?
In the list
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/IAC_DevApp_OLE_Support.100.5 .html
ís nothing about extracting annotations to show in seperated window :-(
More ideas?
Regards
Ralf...
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