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Jim Diamond wrote:

> On 2010-03-21 at 18:02 ADT, Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com> wrote:
>
>> Emacs does PDFs out of the box,
>
> Using either 23.1 or 24.0.50, "apropos" has very little to say about PDFs.

Don't use apropos to search for a concept, instead search the manual.

C-h i
m emacs RET
i pdf TAB RET # completes to "PDF FILE"

And this takes you to the section "Document Viewing" in the manual.