Linux and SARS

[ponder]

Eish, adding pepper to chromium on arch based systems seems like a much simpler process. I've got pepper & pdf viewer plugins going for mine.

 

[nicoschl]

@Intell1gence,

Glad you got a response from SARS. My email was ignored and I had to revert to using my work laptop with Win 7 to file my tax returns.

 

[RNJudas]

Linux and SARS... Thats how far I got before I fell of my chair laughing...

I think they still charge for cache... not sure xD

 

[BigAl-sa]

I just used chrome. No need to waste time downloading the whole chrome just to extract pepper to use with chromium...

It did complain about wanting the latest acrobat when I wanted to view the ITA34. I will try to figure that out tomorrow.

For anyone who is interested, it's much quicker to do this on an Android device with the SARS app.

 

[MickZA]

It did complain about wanting the latest acrobat when I wanted to view the ITA34. I will try to figure that out tomorrow.

Let us know if you come right, I gave up in the end (F19/Gnome3, tried FF, Chrome & Opera) and used Win 8/IE11 instead.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Let us know if you come right, I gave up in the end (F19/Gnome3, tried FF, Chrome & Opera) and used Win 8/IE11 instead.

Just got it working on my netbook (kubuntu 12.04 32-bit) under FF. Set acrobat as the default pdf reader in preferences>applications. IIRC, you cannot have acrobat as an inline reader on 64-bit machines. I did get it to download to the standalone reader, so will try on my desktop as soon as I've uploaded the documents SARS wants from me

<edit>
Works on 64-bit FF too. What you may want to do is to run the browser script in /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Browser called install_browser_plugin. This seems to set up Acrobat and FF properly. It still doesn't run inline, but it does open the ITA34 in a new window. You can then save it as a PDF.

 

[MickZA]

Works on 64-bit FF too. What you may want to do is to run the browser script in /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Browser called install_browser_plugin. This seems to set up Acrobat and FF properly. It still doesn't run inline, but it does open the ITA34 in a new window. You can then save it as a PDF.

No go

Adobe Reader 9.5.5 - 04/26/2013

Installed Packages
AdobeReader_enu.i486                9.5.5-1                 @adobe-linux-i386/17

... guess Adobe really upset the folks at RedHat/Fedora.

 

[nic777]

Did my efiling on my Linux box, had to use Chromimium or Chrome and not firefox. Also needed Adobe acroread PDF reader to read the final statements and print outs.