I cannot get the legacy financial.vtk (in the vtk data files) to read
into Paraview.
The file has six FIELD values and no DATASET type specified:
# vtk DataFile Version 2.0
Financial data in vtk field format
ASCII
FIELD financialData 6
TIME_LATE 1 3188 float
How does one read in FIELD
That's bug 5887: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=5887
Do you have a particular reason to need this functionality? This bug has never
been high priority because there does not seem to be any real need for it.
That file is the only example I have ever run into of a legacy VTK file with
