Drawing a vertical line

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Drawing a vertical line

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Hi guys,

this might be a totally silly question, but here goes:

I am setting up a layout style sheet and need to have a vertical line on my page. I can't seem to figure out how to do that in Flare! Do I need to bring an image in from Adobe Illustrator?
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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You can put one in the PageLayout (for print mode) with a decoration frame (or image frame).
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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Never tried it, but you might:
Add a border-left or border-right to the body. If that goes along with a margin-left or margin-right, it might work.
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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lacastle wrote:You can put one in the PageLayout (for print mode) with a decoration frame (or image frame).

That's how I would do it
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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forfear wrote:
lacastle wrote:You can put one in the PageLayout (for print mode) with a decoration frame (or image frame).
That's how I would do it
What does that do to the size of the file? Earlier experiences tell me that a background image on each page could boost it into the Nirvana ... but maybe they have learned and now it's better?

And: That would work for "print output" like pdf or word, right? Does that change printing online contents like WebHelp?
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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i-tietz wrote:And: That would work for "print output" like pdf or word, right? Does that change printing online contents like WebHelp?
The PageLayout doesn't have anything to do with online targets. You would use MasterPages for that. but in this case, a border on the body tag might work, although it would cover everything (including headings) and i'm not sure if it would continue down a printed online help page since technically the body tag can stop anywhere on the page.
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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i-tietz wrote:
forfear wrote:
lacastle wrote:You can put one in the PageLayout (for print mode) with a decoration frame (or image frame).
That's how I would do it
What does that do to the size of the file? Earlier experiences tell me that a background image on each page could boost it into the Nirvana ... but maybe they have learned and now it's better?

And: That would work for "print output" like pdf or word, right? Does that change printing online contents like WebHelp?
Page Layouts are only used in print outputs; so I guess the question is do you want to have this line in print, help, or both?

You don't have to add the line as an image in the page layout; you can add a border to any frame in a page layout. So you could add the border to the body frame (if it is the right size), or add a decoration frame and set a border on that.
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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lacastle wrote:although it would cover everything (including headings)
The headings are INSIDE the body - how could a body line extend into the contained heading? Or do you mean page headers and footers? Even then I think the "body" only uses the space between header and footer.
lacastle wrote:and i'm not sure if it would continue down a printed online help page since technically the body tag can stop anywhere on the page.
True. Never tried, but could be possible.
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Re: Drawing a vertical line

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i-tietz wrote:The headings are INSIDE the body - how could a body line extend into the contained heading? Or do you mean page headers and footers? Even then I think the "body" only uses the space between header and footer.
i didn't really mean "into" but next to. i don't know if the original poster wanted just the paragraph text to have a line or the headings at the top as well.
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