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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan  8 17:11:33 +0000 
2008 -------
Not sure if this matters, but in a survey of other spreadsheet programs...

A major commercial known-by-everyone spreadsheet program considers cell borders
and cell background color to be "content".

KSpread (the KDE Spreadsheet program) doesn't make a "content" determination; it
always prints something, even if the page is blank.

Gnumeric is stricter about content than Calc; in order to print a cell, the cell
must contain some content (e.g. a space).  So in Calc for "Sitzplan
Physiksaal.ods," a single space in ANY cell would allow EVERYTHING to be
printed.  In Gnumeric, ALL cells with borders would need to have a space in
order for EVERYTHING to be printed.

Given this, I think Calc should follow suit and consider cell borders and
background to be considered as content, so that user expectations are met. 
(Really, who wants to dig through the Calc preferences dialog to find the
"Suppress output of empty pages" checkbox, especially when most people [0] are
going to consider a non-blank page NOT being empty, and thus won't think it
applies to them anyway!)

[0] "most people" statistic completely made up

The key point is matching user expectations.  Pointing to documentation isn't
sufficient, as most people [0] don't read the documentation in the first place.

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