diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/export/pdf.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/export/pdf.rs
index 12d5577ec..b5f16c110 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/export/pdf.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/export/pdf.rs
@@ -541,6 +541,76 @@ mod overset_tests {
         assert!(story["overset"].is_null() && story["oversetChars"].is_null(), "{story}");
     }
 
+    /// `overset` indexes `text` in UTF-8 bytes, not characters: a client that slices a JavaScript
+    /// string at it cuts the wrong place once the text is not ASCII (noted in review).
+    #[test]
+    fn overset_is_a_byte_offset_into_the_text() {
+        let mut s = Session::new();
+        s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 300, "height": 200, "pages": 1, "facingPages": false, "margins": 0})).unwrap();
+        // Accented letters are two bytes each, so the byte offset runs ahead of the character index.
+        let text = "Réservé à l'évaluation détaillée des éléments.\nCette phrase dépasse le cadre et n'est pas dans le PDF exporté du tout.";
+        let frame = s.execute("frame.create", &json!({"rect": [20, 20, 280, 40], "content": "text", "text": text})).unwrap();
+        let story = s.execute("story.get", &json!({"story": frame["story"].clone()})).unwrap();
+        let at = story["overset"].as_u64().expect("it oversets") as usize;
+        assert!(text.is_char_boundary(at), "a byte offset that splits no character: {at}");
+        assert!(at > text[..at].chars().count(), "ahead of the character index: {at} bytes, {} characters", text[..at].chars().count());
+        // And `oversetChars` counts characters, which is why the two numbers differ.
+        assert_eq!(story["oversetChars"], json!(text[at..].chars().count()), "{story}");
+    }
+
+    /// A parent page's frame is composed once per page that shows it: its page number marker is
+    /// that page's, so the same frame fits on page 1 and oversets on page 10 -- and a parent page
+    /// no exported page uses puts nothing in the file to be missing. Composing it once with no
+    /// page reported neither: every selection got the same unpaged warning (noted in review).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_parent_frame_is_checked_on_the_pages_that_show_it() {
+        let about = |r: &serde_json::Value| -> Vec<String> {
+            r["warnings"]
+                .as_array()
+                .map(|w| w.iter().filter_map(|w| w.as_str()).filter(|w| w.contains("not in the export")).map(str::to_string).collect())
+                .unwrap_or_default()
+        };
+
+        // A parent page that only page 1 uses.
+        let mut s = Session::new();
+        s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 300, "height": 200, "pages": 2, "facingPages": false, "margins": 0})).unwrap();
+        s.execute("layout.pages.applyParent", &json!({"pages": [1], "parent": null})).unwrap();
+        let text = "First line is visible.\nSecond paragraph does not fit: this sentence carries the legal notice and must not vanish from the PDF without a warning.";
+        let frame = s
+            .execute("frame.create", &json!({"spread": {"kind": "parent", "index": 0}, "rect": [20, 20, 280, 60], "content": "text", "text": text}))
+            .unwrap();
+        let id = frame["id"].as_u64().unwrap();
+
+        let w = about(&s.execute("file.exportPdf", &json!({"pages": [1]})).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "page 1 shows the parent: {w:?}");
+        assert!(w[0].contains("page 1") && w[0].contains(&format!("frame {id}")) && w[0].contains("76 character"), "{}", w[0]);
+
+        // Page 2 has no parent, so nothing of that frame is in its export to be missing.
+        let r = s.execute("file.exportPdf", &json!({"pages": [2]})).unwrap();
+        assert!(about(&r).is_empty(), "page 2 does not use the parent: {r}");
+
+        // Page-dependent text: the marker is one digit up to page 9 and two from page 10, and the
+        // wider line no longer fits. 112 pt is the width where that is the only difference.
+        let mut s = Session::new();
+        s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 300, "height": 200, "pages": 12, "facingPages": false, "margins": 0})).unwrap();
+        let text = format!("Continued on page {}", designcraft_doc::story::PAGE_NUMBER);
+        s.execute("frame.create", &json!({"spread": {"kind": "parent", "index": 0}, "rect": [20, 20, 132, 36], "content": "text", "text": text}))
+            .unwrap();
+
+        for page in [1, 9] {
+            let r = s.execute("file.exportPdf", &json!({"pages": [page]})).unwrap();
+            assert!(about(&r).is_empty(), "page {page} fits one digit: {r}");
+        }
+        let w = about(&s.execute("file.exportPdf", &json!({"pages": [10]})).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "two digits do not fit: {w:?}");
+        assert!(w[0].contains("page 10"), "{}", w[0]);
+
+        // The whole document: one line naming every page it happens on, not one line per page.
+        let w = about(&s.execute("file.exportPdf", &json!({})).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "one line for the story: {w:?}");
+        assert!(w[0].starts_with("pages 10, 11, 12:"), "{}", w[0]);
+    }
+
     /// A spread export puts the whole spread on the sheet, so choosing one page of it exports its
     /// partner too -- and that partner's overset is just as absent from the file. Reporting only
     /// the pages that were named left it unmentioned (noted in review of #1465).
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/preflight.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/preflight.rs
index b3a22d6ad..bf98f9ab9 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/preflight.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/preflight.rs
@@ -121,16 +121,76 @@ fn overset_location(s: &Session, target: designcraft_doc::ItemId) -> Option<(des
 /// 0-based pages being exported; a story whose overset is on a page that is not being exported is
 /// not reported, and one with no page of its own always is. A reflowable export (EPUB, HTML) or a
 /// text export carries the whole story, so neither calls this.
+/// Pages a single warning names before "and N more".
+const MAX_WARNED_PAGES: usize = 10;
+
+/// How the pages one warning covers are named: "page 3", "pages 3, 4", "pages 3, 4 and 6 more".
+fn page_list(pages: &[usize]) -> String {
+    let shown: Vec<String> = pages.iter().take(MAX_WARNED_PAGES).map(|p| (p + 1).to_string()).collect();
+    let rest = pages.len() - shown.len();
+    let list = shown.join(", ");
+    match (pages.len(), rest) {
+        (1, _) => format!("page {list}"),
+        (_, 0) => format!("pages {list}"),
+        _ => format!("pages {list} and {rest} more"),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The parent spread and the page of it a frame sits on, or `None` for a frame on a document page.
+fn parent_page_of(d: &Document, target: designcraft_doc::ItemId) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
+    let loc = d.find(target)?;
+    let SpreadRef::Parent(pi) = loc.spread else { return None };
+    let bounds = d.parent_xf(&loc).transform_rect_bbox(d.item(target)?.bounds());
+    Some((pi, d.spread(loc.spread)?.page_at_x(bounds.center().x).unwrap_or(0)))
+}
+
+/// Document pages that draw parent page `pp` of parent spread `pi`, in document order.
+fn pages_showing(d: &Document, (pi, pp): (usize, usize)) -> Vec<usize> {
+    (0..d.page_count())
+        .filter(|p| d.page_loc(*p).is_some_and(|(si, pgi)| d.shown_parent_pages(SpreadRef::Doc(si), pgi).contains(&(pi, pp))))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Characters of `story` that `cs` had no room for.
+fn overset_chars(story: &designcraft_doc::Story, cs: &ComposedStory) -> usize {
+    story.text.get(cs.overset_at.unwrap_or(0)..).unwrap_or("").chars().count()
+}
+
 pub fn overset_warnings(s: &Session, pages: Option<&[usize]>) -> Vec<String> {
     let Some(st) = s.active() else { return vec![] };
     let d = &st.doc;
     let mut out = Vec::new();
     for story in d.stories.values() {
+        let last = story.frames.last().copied();
+        // A story on a parent page is composed once per page that shows it: its page number
+        // markers and variables are that page's, so the same frame can fit on one page and
+        // overset on another, and a parent page no exported page uses puts nothing in the file
+        // to be missing. Composing it once with no page reported neither (noted in review).
+        if let Some(parent) = last.and_then(|f| parent_page_of(d, f)) {
+            let mut by_count: std::collections::BTreeMap<usize, Vec<usize>> = std::collections::BTreeMap::new();
+            for page in pages_showing(d, parent) {
+                if pages.is_some_and(|sel| !sel.contains(&page)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let cs = s.cache.get(d, story.id, Some(page));
+                let n = overset_chars(story, &cs);
+                if cs.is_overset() && n > 0 {
+                    by_count.entry(n).or_default().push(page);
+                }
+            }
+            let item = last.map_or(0, |f| f.0);
+            out.extend(
+                by_count.into_iter().map(|(n, ps)| {
+                    format!("{}: {n} character(s) of the story in frame {item} do not fit it and are not in the export", page_list(&ps))
+                }),
+            );
+            continue;
+        }
         let cs = s.cache.get(d, story.id, None);
         if !cs.is_overset() {
             continue;
         }
-        let n = story.text.get(cs.overset_at.unwrap_or(0)..).unwrap_or("").chars().count();
+        let n = overset_chars(story, &cs);
         if n == 0 {
             continue;
         }
@@ -138,7 +198,6 @@ pub fn overset_warnings(s: &Session, pages: Option<&[usize]>) -> Vec<String> {
             out.push(format!("a story with no text frame: {n} character(s) of it are not in the export"));
             continue;
         }
-        let last = story.frames.last().copied();
         let location = last.and_then(|f| overset_location(s, f));
         let page = location.and_then(|(_, page)| page);
         if let (Some(page), Some(pages)) = (page, pages)
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs
index 3e6dce9d5..01abf0e6e 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
                 })
             }
         ),
-        cmd!(query "story.get", "Get Story", [], None, "{story? | frame?} → text, frames, paragraphs, vertical, lines, overset (the index in `text` where it stops fitting its frames, null when it all fits) and oversetChars (how many characters that leaves, as preflight reports them)", has_doc, |s, p| {
+        cmd!(query "story.get", "Get Story", [], None, "{story? | frame?} → text, frames, paragraphs, vertical, lines, overset (the UTF-8 byte offset into `text` where it stops fitting its frames, not a character index, null when it all fits) and oversetChars (how many characters that leaves, as preflight reports them)", has_doc, |s, p| {
             let st = s.doc()?;
             let sid = story_of(s, p).ok_or_else(|| bad("story.get", "no story"))?;
             let mut v = st.doc.story_summary(sid).ok_or(designcraft_doc::DocError::NoStory(sid))?;