How to remove conference information from the ACM 2017 SIGCONF template?

Question

I have downloaded the new ACM template for conference proceedings (sigconf format). Even when I comment out the lines that are related to conference information, price, DOI, etc. I get the following lines on the first page:

Conference’17, Washington, DC, USA
2016. 978-x-xxxx-xxxx-x/YY/MM. . . $15.00
DOI: 10.1145/nnnnnnn.nnnnnnn

I have uncommented the line

\setcopyright{none}

so the copyright notice is gone, but the above information is still there (from acmart.cls)

Additionally, I get the paper's name on odd pages and conference information at the top of every page. How should I remove these lines?

Answer 1

Add the following lines below the \documentclass line.

\settopmatter{printacmref=false} % Removes citation information below abstract
\renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{} % removes footnote with conference information in first column
\pagestyle{plain} % removes running headers

Removing "Manuscript submitted to ACM": add \fancyfoot{} in the preamble and \thispagestyle{empty} after \maketitle

Removing DOI information only: Using the command \acmDOI{} to set the DOI to an empty string has only a limited effect: In the ACM reference format and in the copyright notice the prefix https://doi.org/ still remains. Only when using the class option authorversion, this prefix will vanish in the footnote, but will still be part of the ACM reference. (Imho this is a bug.) Here is a hack to get rid of this prefix (and of any DOI that has been set).

Add the lines

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@formatdoi[1]{\ignorespaces}
\makeatother

after the \documentclass line. This will remove the DOI line in the ACM reference format completely (including the line break). The conference information in the footnote will still retain the line break, which leads to a small extra vertical space. To avoid this, suppress the complete copyright notice by \renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{} (see above), or redefine \footnotetextcopyrightpermission in a more sophisticated way by just removing the \@formatdoi command with the preceding \\ from the original definition (see the class file).