[ubuntu-za] Forcing me back to Microsoft

[bradley at cloete.za.net]

Hi Jan, 

Glad that works! 

You can view your assessment. 

In Ubuntu software centre enable the canonical partner repo and save.
Open Ubuntu Software Centre->Edit->Sofware Sources->Other Software tab
Close 

Then in a terminal run... 

sudo apt-get install acroread 

Adobe still supply an acrobat reader version for Linux at least. 

Firefox has there own javascript powered pdf read which doesnt seem to be 
able to read the pdf's from SARS.
But you can save it and then read it from the file system using the adobe 
reader with a right-click, or firefox should popup a bar that you can choose 
an alternative reader. 

I tested this on my system and it works fine. 

I'm cc'ing the list for archiving purposes. 

Regards
Bradley 


Jan Greeff writes: 

> Many thanks, this worked. But I still need to login via the normal 
> e-filing to view my assessment and to ask for review, obviously this does 
> not work so I will have to resort to telephone, letter or (God forbid!) 
> personal visit to the offices. 
> 
> On 06/08/2013 22:36, bradley at cloete.za.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This might be a bit late but....
>> There are 2 alternatives.
>> If you have an Android or iOS device you can use the SARS Efiling App 
>> from the Play and App stores respectively.
>> You can also try using https://sarsefiling.mobi with firefox or chromium.
>> Doesn't look like it requires flash, and it says you can "Complete and 
>> submit your Income Tax Return". (which begs the question why bother with 
>> flash at all, but that's for another time)
>> It will probably be very weird and look a little janky cos its built for 
>> mobile but it *should* get the job done.
>> Hope that helps!
>> Regards
>> Bradley
>> Jan Greeff writes:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Seems like I will eventually have no option but to revert to Microsoft.
>>> I need to submit my tax returns via e-filing, but SARS is using Adobe 
>>> Flash Player 11.3 and this version is not available for Ubuntu. I have 
>>> found this: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target 
>>> Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security 
>>> backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. 
>>> 
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