
INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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Placement of rules
A. Rule above paragraph B. Rule below paragraph
Add a rule above or below a paragraph
1
Select text.
2 Choose Paragraph Rules from the Paragraph panel menu or Control panel menu.
3 At the top of the Paragraph Rule dialog box, select Rule Above or Rule Below.
4 Select Rule On.
Note: Ifyouwantbotharuleaboveandbelow,makesurethatRuleOnisselectedforbothRuleAboveandRuleBelow.
5 Select Preview to see what the rule will look like.
6 ForWeight,chooseaweightortypeavaluetodeterminethethicknessoftherule.ForRuleAbove,increasingthe
weight expands the rule upwards. For Rule Below, increasing the weight expands the rule downward.
7 Select Overprint Stroke when you want to make sure that the stroke doesn’t knock out underlying inks on a
printing press.
8 Do one or both of the following:
• Choose a color. The available colors are those listed in the Swatches panel. Select the Text Color option to make
therulethesamecolorasthefirstcharacterintheparagraphforRuleAboveandthelastcharacterforRuleBelow.
• Choose a tint or specify a tint value. The tint is based on the color you specified. Note that you can’t create tints of
the built-in colors None, Paper, Registration, or Text Color.
• If you specified any line type other than solid, choose a gap color or gap tint to change the appearance of the area
between dashes, dots, or lines.
9 Choose the width of the rule. You can choose either Text (from the left edge of text to the line end) or Column
(from the left edge of the column to the right edge of the column). If the left edge of the frame has a column inset,
the rule begins at the inset.
10 To determine the vertical position of the rule, type a value for Offset.
11 To make sure that the rule above text is drawn within the text frame, select Keep Within Frame. If this option
isn’t selected, the rule can appear outside the text frame.
12 Set left or right indents for the rule (not for text) by typing values for Left Indent and Right Indent.
13 SelectOverprintStrokeiftheparagraphrulewillbeprintedoveranothercolorandyouwanttoavoiderrorsthat
can occur with printing misregistration. Then click OK.
B
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