Reply To: Find overlapping frames

Hello Alicia.

So, I wrote something that can find any “live” text frame that contains a first paragraph with either “rhr” or “rhv” paragraph style applied and that overlaps a similar text frame on its own page or a master page. (Despite my blind spot about xy coordinates!)

It shows a dialog box once it’s done and also copies the list of page numbers to the clipboard.

It’s crude and probably fragile and on a long document may be a bit slow. It makes no changes to the document so it should be safe but obviously try it on a copy.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vqf98tyw867ip5mq1io76/Overlapper.scpt?rlkey=4wvzbyr2591xdf1nu4bjs5v79&st=41m6zyb9&dl=0

I don’t know how many variations on the running headers there are but if this doesn’t work I wonder if you could just temporarily add a few red blobs to the running headers on the master pages then look for pages where the blobs have not pushed the running header text to one side ?

By the way, I see from the extended file info that this document was created from a Quark XPress file in 2015! If I were you I would do an export to and open from IDML because there could be a lot of crud hidden there.

Nick