It isn't a script to modify many layers at once.it just shrinks the layer boundary around the contents of many linked layers at one time.
I do a lot of Layer to Image size on my projects and then need them all auto cropped back to their original boundary.
This makes it much faster.

For some reason i just like boundaries as close as possible when i rotate text or objects.Just me i guess but it seems more precise.

Now that made perfect sense. And it worked perfectly in that capacity. Sorry if anyone felt put on the spot, I just wanted to understand this, so I had to ask.

I understand mahvin, i would want to know what exactly a script can do for me before i download and install it too.I do not blame you for asking.

Ofnuts, you may wish to re-examine your script to ensure that it is doing what you think it is doing. The Autocrop Layer plug-in has a couple of quirks which prescribe caution.

Firstly, 'plug-in-autocrop-layer' resizes the active layer based upon the contents of the layer that has been passed as a parameter. This typically means that you will want to execute 'gimp-image-set-active-layer' before running the plug-in (assuming you wish each layer to be autocropped individually based upon its own contents). This seemingly anomalous behavior is presumably intentional, considering how 'plug-in-autocrop' behaves (cropping the image based on the single parameter layer as opposed to cropping to the entire content of the image).

Slightly more problematic (in some situations) is that 'plug-in-autocrop-layer' does not seem to recognize when there is a difference in the layer offsets of the parameter layer and the active layer (for cases where these two layers are not the same). This behavior is rarely a concern for plug-in authors -- most often autocropping is performed on a layer based upon its own contents -- but one should be aware of the problem.

I do not have access to my notes on this at the moment, but a little experimentation should demonstrate the precise behavior of the plug-in (and explain the disparity in Mahvin's results).

That is odd i tried doing three layers and one object vanished all together.
I made a white bg
created 3 transparent layers
created three distinct shapes on each layer.
Square on top - circle in the center - odd shape at the bottom
ran the script with all 3 layers linked and the bottom shape vanished into thin air but the boundary box was still there....And i can rotate it. :p

Image example to make it more clear -

I had the same thing happen that mahvin did.

Here is a script that should do what you want -- at least it has worked for me with multiple layers that didn't necessarily overlap.

http://theuncle2k.deviantart.com/art/Au ... -149128828

The only problem is that it does all the layers in the image.
(Yes, the script does make each layer active and then autocrops it.)

OK, fixed in version 0.1 (on Sourceforge)

AWESOME works perfect ofnuts! Even with 4 layers of content they autocrop very nicely.
Besides the Hello script that has got to be the smallest Python script i have seen to date.

Could you tell me how to edit the script if i wanted all the layers to become unlinked after the cropping takes effect?