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?

add draft to the documentclass options. – Marco Daniel May 09 '11 at 16:50 — Marco Daniel, May 09 '11 at 16:50
Is there also an option for underfull hboxes? – white_gecko Apr 22 '13 at 09:30 — white_gecko, Apr 22 '13 at 09:30

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '11 at 16:50

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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 09 '11 at 16:50

Andrey Vihrov

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 09 '11 at 23:46
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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 03 '13 at 15:01

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