I want to prevent some items from prining on a layout based on some criterias.

Is there any way to do that.It involves text and also data from the database.I want to write a script for it,is it possible?

Thanks

The easiest way to prevent items from printing is to go to layout mode, select the objects and select sliding & printing from the format menu. There you can select whether you want to print those objects or not. Very simple, you don't have to write a single script

You wanted to make them visible/invisible based on a criteria. I'm not sure if there's a way to make an object invisible via script but you could do this simply by duplicating the original layout and modify it to print the way the criteria allows. Now based on the criteria you would simply go to a matching layout and print.

if field criteria=1 go to layout (criteria 1 layout )

if field criteria =2 go to layout (criteria 2 layout)

(Btw that's not a real script etc I just made an example)