Monday, January 28, 2008

SACEOS

SACEOS stand for Singapore Association of Convention & Exhibition Organisers & Suppliers.
Beginning of January 08, I took up the short course organised by the Association, under the sponsorship of WSQ, Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications. The full course name is WSQ Professional Exhibition Management Programme - Co-ordinate Support Services. This course has 4 modules. Each modules conducted from morning 9am to 6pm in 3 consecutive days. I took the 4th modules and it was the first of the 4 modules. We always dismissed at around 4pm, I still have time rush back to work until 8pm.
They offer tea breaks with light refreshment during the 3 days training. After the course, we are obliged to work in the field for minimum 6 months.
Today, we supposed to pass up the assignment. Then, I encounter some problem in printing out the 19 pages of assignment I have completed. I called the Executive who manage our course, and ask for help. I want to email the assignment to him, so that he can print out for me at his office.
I have been using "openoffice org2.2" to replace microsoft word to do the home work. Frankly, this free software is not very useful, because it can't get the Epson printer print out the pages like microsoft word. Last time, when I write my resume using this software, most of the recruitment agency and the job.com specifically want the application to be sent only in microsoft word format. Today, I have the 3rd problem. The Executive in SACEOS office can't open the file in odt format.

I am quite panic, what should I do? The Executive asked me to download pdf995, a free ware, and save the file using print to "pdf" format. The whole assignment is saved under .pdf format. He is able to retrieve under the "pdf" format and print out the file accordingly. Thank you to him and the great software. The "pdf995" simply convert the file accordingly. The software is very easy to use and useful. It is not like "notepad" or "wordpad" that unable to retain the original format you created, eg the dot will be gone. "pdf995" will keep every things we originally created. Doesn't it sound great.

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