ACM camera-ready is harder than it looks. TAPS is why.

ACM Latex Formatting — The Latex Lab

Most publishers just want a .tex file. ACM has TAPS (The ACM Publishing System). It does not just compile your LaTeX. It generates both a PDF and an HTML5 version, checks package compatibility against a whitelist, validates accessibility, and enforces rules that Overleaf doesn’t enforce.

Common TAPS failures: using a package that’s not on ACM’s approved list (no error locally, rejected by TAPS), submitting the review format (manuscript, single-column with line numbers) instead of the camera-ready format (sigconf, two-column), missing or incorrectly placed rights management commands, and broken CCS concept descriptors.

If your TAPS submission is failing and ACM support hasn’t responded in time, there’s an ACM LaTeX formatting service that handles the full pipeline , sigconf, sigplan, acmsmall, rights block insertion, CCS concepts, and TAPS validation , with same-day turnaround for urgent cases.