Line with a changing width in the footer

Question

Is there a way to format the horizontal line in the footer so that it looks like this one?

I'm using the package fancyhdr to format the header and the footer.

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can resize a \bullet by squeezing/flattening it.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\fancyfoot[C]{%
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\thepage}% Page number
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\raisebox{\baselineskip}[0pt][0pt]{\resizebox{1.2\linewidth}{1pt}{$\bullet$}}}% Varied-width line
}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}