We are pleased to announce the Maven PDF Plugin 2.4 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/pdf/

PDF Documentation generator 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Allow the pdf plugin to be added as a project's report. Fixes MPPDF-9. 
  Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina. 

  Fixed bugs:

o sub-/superscripts do not work. Fixes MPPDF-43. Thanks to Lukas Theussl. 
o Error when logo locations are not set. Fixes MPPDF-42. Thanks to Lukas 
  Theussl. 
o Suppress verbose output by default. Fixes MPPDF-41. Thanks to Lukas 
  Theussl. 
o Missing patch for MPPDF-24 ( it defines a missing attribute for <code 
  style="indent"> tags and cleans up some layout issues with definition 
  lists). Fixes MPPDF-39. Thanks to Lukas Theussl. 
o Standardize copyright notices. Fixes MPPDF-35. Thanks to Lukas Theussl. 
o Fix some "contents overflows area" errors. Fixes MPPDF-33. Thanks to 
  Valerie Nyre. 
o Cannot use SVG images. (batik: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError.) Fixes 
  MPPDF-32. Thanks to Lukas Theussl. 
o Can't insert the logo image described in the POM if its path begins with a 
  slash (as it works for the xdoc plugin). Fixes MPPDF-31. Thanks to Lukas 
  Theussl. 
o Allow copy and paste from pdf to text editor. Fixes MPPDF-22. Thanks to 
  Lukas Theussl. 
o Add support for external imaging libraries like jimi and jai to use PNG 
  images in generated pdf files. Fixes MPPDF-8. Thanks to Fabio Franco Uechi. 
o PDF generation doesn't use proxy settings for external resources. Fixes 
  MPPDF-7. 

  Changes:

o Make the plugin compatible with maven 1.0 and jdk 1.3/1.4/1.5 or with maven 
  1.1 and jdk 1.4/1.5.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-pdf-plugin
  -Dversion=2.4

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-pdf-plugin-2.4.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven PDF Plugin development team