Bug 49115

Please add this bug to the MAB so that other people can have fun too. And please never ever add me as cc into a bug report.

OfficeUser,

With all due respect, before you accuse a developer by name, you should have a solid evidence of your accusation.  That's a sure way to piss off a developer.

BTW, this behavior has been there since 3.3.  It's not a regression.

@Markus: Reporting your regressions is no fun.

Ok, sorry. Let's examine the problems and than adjust the summary.

"BTW, this behavior has been there since 3.3."

And before 3.3?

Do you really think that any calc dev will now care about your personal bugs? You might start fixing them yourself.

[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.5.3.1 (RC1) German UI/Locale [Build-ID: 21cb047-d7e6025-9ba54fc-b4a51a8-f42372b] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit). all new documents created from File Menu, Start center, WIN Desktop, ... show that empty grey area instead of an empty page, I did not find a setting what might heal that.  

Seems reporter did not check very carefully, I already see that in OOo 1.1.4 (even the PDF export error message is the same), so inherited from OOo and not a regression.

@OfficeUser: 
May I recommend to read <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport>, what will help you to write more useful reports? Except the observed effect all report here is unusable and wrong.

Please contribute information concerning your OS.

print preview
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I have seen the all-grey print-preview before, and I thought it was a
feature rather than a bug.  The workaround is simple: enter
something--even a blank--somewhere in the spreadsheet.

(Bug 48348 "VIEWING FILEOPEN spreadsheet saved from page preview opens
to grey" is different from this one in that the grey background there
arises in a different context and the workaround is even more simple.)


PDF export
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The message from the attempt to export an empty document as PDF reads

    Error saving the document Untitled2:
    Write Error.
    The file could not be written.

This is unhelpfully generic.  But still, I suspect that the attempt to
export an empty document is as likely to be accidental as it is to be
intended.  Presumably, the same workaround is effective.

@Terrence: Current behaviour isn't what the user expects and it is not consistent with other LibO applications. ==> bug

@Markus:
I have to apologise. For me it looked like a regression caused by some of your changes since this bug is related with blank cells, too. Again: Sorry.

But I do not think that this is my "personal" bug. All LibO users are affected by such problems.

Could you take this one and provide a patch?

> But still, I suspect that the attempt to
export an empty document is as likely to be accidental as it is to be
intended.

I disagree. Documents can consist of only formattings. Imagine - for example - printing a "blank" table structure for writing by hand...

And again: Current behaviour is inconsistent with other LibO applications.

@OfficeUser, @Terrence Enger:
This bug has been confirmed, the current behavior is inconsistent to other LibO applications and sometimes a little annoying and so it's a (trivial) bug. I doubt that further discussion will be useful, especially here in this particular bug. 

For the PDF problem I submitted "Bug 49151 - PDF export of Empty sheet causes error message, PRINTING fails silently"!

Corrected summary.

I can confirm this with LO 4.1.1 on Windows 7 SP1.