diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
index 25692b1ed58..344e0a602bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
@@ -138,20 +138,12 @@ jobs:
           python -m build --sdist
           python -m pip install dist/*
 
-      # Build the documentation
-      - name: Build the documentation
+      - name: Build the HTML documentation
         run: make -C doc clean html
 
-      - name: Build the PDF
+      - name: Build the PDF documentation
         run:  make -C doc pdf
 
-      - name: Upload PDF to artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4.5.0
-        with:
-          name: pygmt-docs-pdf
-          path: doc/_build/latex/pygmt.pdf
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
-
       - name: Checkout the gh-pages branch
         uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
         with: