Bug 183217 suppress duplicates leaving whitespace
I am not certain this is a bug, but if I set suppress duplicates on all the columns, I still get whitespace for suppressed rows. 2.1.2 did not do this. This issue happens in the M6 build.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/layout/pdf/cache/TableAreaLayout.java
return false;
	}
	
	public void updateRow(RowArea rowArea, int specifiedHeight, boolean finished)
	{
		/*
		 * 1. resolve drop conflict, formailize current row.
		 * 2. resolve row height
		 * 
		 */
		hasDropCell = !finished;
		Row lastRow = getPreviousRow();
		if(lastRow==null && existDropCells())
		{
			lastRow = unresolvedRow;
		}
		Row row = new Row(rowArea, start, columnNumber, finished );
		int height = specifiedHeight;
		
		
		for(int i=0; i<columnNumber; i++)
		{
			CellArea lastCell = null;
			if(lastRow!=null)
			{
				lastCell = lastRow.getCell( start + i );
			}
			CellArea cell = row.getCell( start + i );
			if(lastCell!=null &&(lastCell.getRowSpan( )>1 || lastCell.getRowSpan( )<0))
			{