diff --git a/.gitlab-ci-simple.yml b/.gitlab-ci-simple.yml
index 8d93c166f2e1f387716f5bf1a0025f2cb0ea94ec..10b85ec61ce0b122f3346295cd5492568b848092 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci-simple.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci-simple.yml
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ build:
   script:
     - cd latex
     - latexmk -pdf --shell-escape thesis.tex
-    - "pdfa-validate thesis.pdf > output"
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - latex/thesis.pdf
-      - latex/output
 
 # a validation prints "PASS + something" is the file is PDF/A conformant
 validate:
@@ -29,8 +27,6 @@ pages:
   script:
     - mkdir -p static
     - cp -v latex/*.pdf static/
-    - cp latex/output /
-    - echo "cat /output" > /usr/local/bin/pdfa-validate
     - /sitegen/bin/sitegen --singlefile
   only:
     - master
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 90c2379276c91979635783c47f988303ea1bacdb..3e259e7b0b5e78377edef20e3cd6b46a6722e894 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -36,10 +36,8 @@ final_version:
     - "pdfinfo thesis2.pdf |grep '^Pages: *16$'"
     - "pdfa-validate thesis.pdf|grep '^PASS'"
     - "pdfa-validate thesis2.pdf|grep '^PASS'"
-    - "pdfa-validate thesis.pdf > output"
   artifacts:
     paths:
-      - latex/output
       - latex/thesis.pdf
       - latex/thesis2.pdf
 
@@ -65,8 +63,6 @@ pages:
   script:
     - mkdir -p static
     - cp -v latex/*.pdf static/
-    - cp latex/output /
-    - echo "cat /output" > /usr/local/bin/pdfa-validate
     - /sitegen/bin/sitegen --singlefile
   only:
     - master