Paragraph rules don't appear in pdf

I have a problem with a paragraph rule. The rule is in a paragraph style that always appears on right pages (chapter opening). I set a negative indent so the rule extends through all the left page. It appears ok in indesign,…
but when I export a pdf, the rule appears only in the right page, not in the left…
The same happens when i generate a pdf through print command (even though the indesign document prints right in the printer).

Unchecking "Crop Image Data to Frames" I had the same result. If I export the pdf with "spreads" checked, it appears right.
With a drawn rule it worked. It'll probably be the solution, since in this layout the rule is always on the same position. If it was applied on the chapter title, it could change the position because of the title's lenght, and then it would be more complicated…
It seems that it's simply the way the software works, there are some things you just can't do.
Thanks!

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