Object overlap warnings in pre flight

[dzgnr89]

I do a lot of layout work for books in InDesign. Despite taking due care every now amd then for a document running upto 500-600 pages, it often happens that my text box accidentally get overlapped slightly by photographs or vice versa.  For overflowing text,  InDesign had a nice pre flight feature to give us warnings.

Is there any way to set up warnings for accidental overlappings that I run into?

[Cari Jansen · Accepted solution]

It's not something you can do with InDesign's preflight settings.

However, if there is a consistent requirement that no graphic frame may overlap a text frame, then you could use a script to check this before publishing the document to ensure any occurrences are flagged.

You might want to ask that question in the InDesign Scripting forum: InDesign Scripting

Someone might be able to help you with the creation or point to an existing script that is already out there.