What is the command to highlight bad boxes in pdf?

Question

I seem to remember a command to show bad boxes in a PDF when using latex, but googling is not helping me to remember.

How can I show bad boxes in my PDF?

Andrey Vihrov · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-09 16:50:49Z

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Pass the draft option to your document class or insert

\overfullrule=5pt

in your preamble. (Assuming that by bad boxes you mean overfull boxes.)

answered May 9 '11 at 16:50

Andrey Vihrov
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	I vaguely recall some other command, but this certainly does the job. I may be thinking of the ConTeXt command.... who knows. Thanks for your help! – Mica May 9 '11 at 23:46
	Doesn't this solution only work for bad hboxes? The question suggests that the OP is also interested in highlighting bad vboxes, but neither the draft option nor `\overfullrule=5pt` in the preamble accomplishes this. – Tyson Williams Mar 3 at 15:01

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