[Tex/LaTex] How to compile ACM sig-alternative template successfully

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I am new to texlive. After I downloaded the files from ACM website:

Alternate ACM LaTeX2e Style File V2.5 (MAY 2012 CLS)
Alternate ACM LaTeX2e Sample File V2.0 (MAY 2012 LaTeX)
ACM LaTeX2e Sample BIB File
Graphic #1 (EPS)
Graphic #2 (EPS)
Graphic #3 (PS)

I used command pdflatex sig-alternate.tex. I got an error as below:

! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ps.

While if I use latex sig-alternate.tex. The compilation can be done, but with some warnings like:

[3]
No file sig-alternate.bbl.

I have the file sigproc.bib.

And I couldn't open the generated sig-alternate.dvi with preview. After dvipdf sig-alternate.dvi, I found the references section is missing.

Best Answer

It seems the sigproc.bib file needs to be compiled between two runs of the latex, using the following command:

latex sig-alternate
bibtex sig-alternate
latex sig-alternate

Note that neither command bibtex sigproc.bib or bibtex sig-alternate.tex would work.

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You don't want to use T5 encoding as the default encoding. So don't load it as the only (and the last encoding). Load both encodings and set T1 as default by loading it last:

\documentclass{article}
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\begin{document}
abc 

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\fontshape{sc}
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This will work with your class too.

Your class is using the ae-fonts as default. Something which nobody today would do. Also for some reason is sets the font family in the preamble to aer, that confuses latex in combination with the T5 encoding and leds to your corrupted NFSS table message.

I would suggest to undo the aer setting e.g. with

\fontfamily{cmr} %only needed it T5 is default encoding
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{cmss}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{cmr}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{cmtt}

\fontfamily{lmr} %only needed it T5 is default encoding
\usepackage{lmodern}

[Tex/LaTex] Why is LyX trying to convert every image into eps

I had the same problem and my solution was: in "Tools -> Preferences -> Converters" consider the "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" converter and set

latex=pdflatex

in "Extra flag". If this will not work, delete the converters section in your ./lyx/preferences file (in Linux) and restart LyX.

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