We are pleased to announce the Maven PDF Plugin 2.0 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 Upgraded to xerces 2.4.0, fop 0.20.5, batik 1.5 

  Fixed bugs:

o The PDF generation works if paths used in navigation.xml don't begin with a 
  '/'. The date on the cover worked for all projects (not only maven). Fixes 
  MPPDF-6. Thanks to Arnaud Heritier. 
o A new plugin property (maven.pdf.navigationFile) is added to allow the 
  users to have a different navigation file for the site and for the pdf doc. 
  Fixes MPPDF-3. Thanks to Arnaud Heritier. 
o The use of links inside xdocs don't lead to crash the PDF generation. Fixes 
  MPPDF-2. Thanks to Arnaud Heritier. 

  Changes:

o Tables management XSL code cleaned (duplications removed) and simplified. 
  Tables with THEAD/TBODY and tables with a first row compound of th have the 
  same look : They use a table header which is copied on each page. The cover 
  is improved. Internal and external links are differently colored. XSL 
  styles are extracted in a single file. Fixes MPPDF-5. Thanks to Arnaud 
  Heritier. 
o MAVEN-MPPDF-1. Completely re-write of the PDF plug-in. It solves most of 
  the thorniest issues, such as table formatting, more levels in the table of 
  contents, and image sizing. The graphic design is also dramatically 
  improved. Fixes MPPDF-1. Thanks to Andrew Jaquith.  

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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=2.0

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-pdf-plugin-2.0.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven PDF Plugin development team