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Hello Shane,

this is great!
Thank you very much!

You know, I am a newbee writing applescripts.
But now I have got excited: I will write applescripts 26 hours a day. ;-)

I have tested your script and have made a few corrections:
1. There are some pages without footnotes. So I included "try ... end try".
2. The document is doublesided and has a left and a right page. So I had to get the x1-coordinate of the footnote-frame of the left page and the right page (which are different).
3. The first character of the footnotes is the number (which is superscript). Sometimes there was a pagebreak in a footnote and so the first character of the footnote-frame on the next page wasn't superscript. So I had to get the baseline position of a non-superscript character (here: the seventh character).

Here is my final script:

tell application "InDesign CS"
  set ruleDist to -4
  set ruleLength to 18
  set ruleThick to 0.5
  tell document 1
    -- get doc details
    tell document preferences
      set pageCount to pages per document
    end tell
    -- loop through pages
    repeat with i from 1 to pageCount
      -- get position of seventh character of the frame
      -- may be there is no footnote at the page
      try
        tell (text frame 1 of page i whose vertical justification of text frame preferences = bottom align)
          -- hope, the seventh character isn't superscript
          set theBase to baseline of character 7
          -- x-coordinate of the footnote frame
          set x1 to (item 2 of geometric bounds)
        end tell
      end try
      -- make rule
      make graphic line at page i with properties {geometric bounds:{theBase + ruleDist, x1, theBase + ruleDist, x1 + ruleLength}, stroke weight:ruleThick}
    end repeat
  end tell
end tell