RE: dashed lines in tables

["Barbara Ash" <barbara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jennifer,

This would be bother to set up and maintain, but you could create an
anchored frame in each cell with an anchoring position of Outside Text
Frame. Start by creating one anchored frame. Resize the frame and move
it into position so that it overlaps and lines up with the edge of your
table cell. Give the anchored frame a pen pattern, as Thomas suggested,
that simulates a dashed line (none of them really do, but you could get
close). Once that is set up, you could copy and paste the anchored frame
to the other cells and move them into position.

Barbara Ash
Adobe Certified Instructor

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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:03 AM
To: Jennifer Hasher
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Subject: Re: dashed lines in tables

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From: "Jennifer Hasher" <jenniferh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A client has asked for a design that includes dashed rules (vertical
and
> horizontal) in tables. The rules appear below each row and between
each
> column. Is there any way to have the table designer use dashed rules
> instead of single or double line rules?

No. Table rulers cannot be dashed, unless you somehow manage to select
a color and pen pattern that'll give the effect of a "dotted" line.
(Unless you can customize the "pen pattern", but I don't think that's
possible. There's a "[DashPatterns]" section in the maker.ini file,
but I think it only affects patterns for graphical lines.)

Dashed horizontal lines could be achieved by using no table rulers,
and then using a Frame Below for each body row paragraph. This would
be tricky to set up, and it wouldn't work for vertical lines.

If the tables won't change much, your absolute last resort would be
to use a table with no rulers, and then draw dashed lines that you
place directly on the page (not in an anchored frame). However, as
soon as your table moves or the table content expands, you would
have to move the lines... Not pretty.


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Communicator, Uppsala, Sweden
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