How to make ACM style pdfs searchable?
The developers of the class think that in the last 17 years no progress has been made with fonts.
In lines 1470--1492 they reproduce the package ae.sty
, that is obsolete. You can add
\usepackage{lmodern}
to your preamble and solve the problem. The call of cmap
is not needed.
\documentclass{acm_proc_article-sp}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}