I am using openSUSE 13.1, 64-bit, with Firefox 33.0.
My bank offers electronic statements that have an .asp extension.
Okular does not seem to be able to handle that format and shows a blank
form.
tb
.asp files are Active Server Pages, and handled on the server end. If you’re being prompted to download these pages, there’s an issue on the bank’s side and you’ll have to report it to them.
.asp is a Windows Web format not a spread sheet file format. ie it is a dynamic web format and would not hold your readable data but a query to a data base that would return and display the data. In any case any editor should be able to read the file it just won’t mean anything to you. There should be an option some where to download the data in a standard spread sheet or PDF format. There usually is such a options.
On 11/03/2014 09:05 PM, tb75252 wrote:
> I am using openSUSE 13.1, 64-bit, with Firefox 33.0.
>
> My bank offers electronic statements that have an .asp extension. Okular
> does not seem to be able to handle that format and shows a blank form.
>
> What do I need to use in order to see such .asp documents?
When using Microsoft Windows 7, clicking on the bank statement link
causes Firefox to open up a new window where the statement is shown in
Acrobat Reader format.
Doing the same thing in openSUSE opens up Okular but the statement is blank.
tb
On 2014-11-04 13:39, tb75252 wrote:
> When using Microsoft Windows 7, clicking on the bank statement link
> causes Firefox to open up a new window where the statement is shown in
> Acrobat Reader format.
Try Chrome. I had to do that with a bank, Firefox was unable to cope,
the download did not start. If you select “download” on the link, you
get that asp instead. Or something like that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 11/04/2014 07:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2014-11-04 13:39, tb75252 wrote:
>
>> When using Microsoft Windows 7, clicking on the bank statement link
>> causes Firefox to open up a new window where the statement is shown in
>> Acrobat Reader format.
>
> Try Chrome. I had to do that with a bank, Firefox was unable to cope,
> the download did not start. If you select “download” on the link, you
> get that asp instead. Or something like that.
>
tb
On 2014-11-05 03:58, tb75252 wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 07:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> Try Chrome. I had to do that with a bank, Firefox was unable to cope,
>> the download did not start. If you select “download” on the link, you
>> get that asp instead. Or something like that.
>>
> I can’t find Chrome in YaST. Did you perhaps mean Chromium?
Nope, I mean Chrome, and of course it is not in YaST, but in Google.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 11/5/2014 at 3:13:06 AM Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> Nope, I mean Chrome, and of course it is not in YaST, but in Google.
If I install Chrome outside of YaST, will I then be responsible for
monitoring when a new version comes out?
Is it possible to add the Google repository to YaST such that --I’m
hoping!-- it will monitor when a new version of Chrome is available and
prompt me to install it? How?
tb
Nothing huge the repos are
1 trusted source so you can trust them.
2 free as in beer as well as speech for the most part
external stuff you trust or don’t up to you. I’d say Google is trustworthy but you opinion my be different 
Really is much easier then Windows programs which you have no idea where they have been. 
You can try chromium first. Unless the bank is using a chrome plugin, my guess is that should work.
I haven’t installed Chrome in Linux recently.
You would install from Google Chrome - The Fast & Secure Web Browser Built to be Yours
IIRC the install procedure automatically configures a Google repository so Chrome would be updated along with your other openSUSE apps automatically.
TSU
With Konqueror, I use Open in New Tab and it converts the document to PDF format. Then I save it, changing the .asp to .pdf.
Opening in a new tab like you are suggesting did not work for me. However, I found a way to open the bank statements with Okular:
With Firefox and Windows 7 it is less convoluted. All I do is click on the .asp file, Adobe Reader opens in a new tab and shows the bank statement. Doing this with openSUSE launches Okular but the bank statement is blank…
You can install this repository into your yast2:
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
(for the 32 bit, of course).
Every time when a new version of chrome is placed there, you’ll get the corresponding notice from apper to install it, so you’ll have the latest version all the time.
I also got installed chromium too, I can’t confirm if every plugin I have installed on chrome works exactly the same with chromium too, but I’d expect it would (I had not installed them on chromium, though … only adblock plus which works the same).
On 2014-12-03 05:26, tb75252 wrote:
> However, I found a way to open the bank statements with Okular:
> 1) I downloaded the .asp file (eStatement) from my online bank account
> to my Downloads folder using the “Save Link As…” option;
> 2) Using Dolphin I changed the .asp extension to .pdf;
> 3) Double-clicking on the file opens up Okular and I can see my bank
> statement!
Ah.
Makes sense.
Somehow banks use strange things. I have to import “calc” sheets from
some sites. On some they are excel files; on some they are .csv files;
on some they are plain html with tables! All with the wrong extension.
However, fortunately LibreOffice opens all of them happily enough.
So yours is simply a PDF file with the wrong extension.
The command “file somename.asp” should be able to verify this.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)