> What’s the impact of simply removing all of this from generated PDF > files? Should we instead make it optional?
I don't know. It's just one metadata element - and it's recent. I mean that there are lots of (old) PDF files that don't have it in the first place. > For instance, we could > introduce a new environment variable, say “GHOSTSCRIPT_PDF_UUID”, and > use that as the document UUID when it’s defined. >>In our build > environments, we’d always set GHOSTSCRIPT_PDF_UUID to a known value to > ensure determinism. Upstream definitely doesn't want that - at least not if it's a constant value for all PDFs.